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Filmmaker · Singapore

P. Ramlee

Died in 1973

P. Ramlee, whose full name was Teuku Zakaria bin Teuku Nyak Puteh, was born in 1929 in Penang. Noticed in 1948 in a radio singing contest by the director B. S. Rajhans, he arrived the same year in Singapore to join Malay Film Productions as a dubbing singer, then became an actor, composer and director at the Shaw studios. Settled in 1964 in Kuala Lumpur, where he moved to Merdeka Film Productions, he died there in 1973.

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