Jamil Sulong

Jamil bin Sulong was born on 6 August 1926 at Parit Sulong, in Johor. At the end of the forties he was one of the leading figures of the literary movement Asas 50, in Singapore and Malacca. He joined the Malay Film Productions studios in Singapore around 1948 as a translator, became an assistant director in 1951, worked alongside P. Ramlee, then from 1959 directed some forty films, several of which won awards in Malaysia and abroad. He died in Damansara on 25 September 2014.

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• CinemaRanjau sepanjang jalanJamil Sulong · 1983Cinema