Jins Shamsuddin

Mohamed Zain bin Shamsuddin, known as Jins Shamsuddin, was born on 5 November 1935 in Taiping, in Perak. Standing in for an actor in a play staged at the Victoria Memorial Hall in Singapore, he was noticed there by the Shaw brothers and entered the cinema, where he worked under the direction of P. Ramlee. He then trained at the London Film School, from which he returned in 1972, moved into directing and founded his own production company. Appointed to the Senate in 2004, the first artist to sit there, he died on 1 March 2017.

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• CinemaBukit KepongJins Shamsuddin · 1981Cinema