Sabu actor biography
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Sabu Dastagir
ACTOR
1924 - 1963
Sabu Dastagir
Sabu Dastagir (possibly born Selar Sabu; 27 January 1924 – 2 December 1963) was an Indian actor who later gained United States citizenship. Throughout his career he was credited under the name Sabu and is primarily known for his work in films during the 1930s–1940s in Britain and the United States. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sabu Dastagir has received more than 1,015,093 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Sabu Dastagir is the 3,738th most popular actor (down from 2,919th in 2019), the 529th most popular biography from India (down from 406th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular Indian Actor.
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Among ACTORS
Among actors, Sabu Dastagir ranks 3,738 out of 13,578. Before him are David Proval, Victor Sen Yung, Sylvia Miles, Yu Rongguang, Juan Diego, and Nadezhda Rumyantseva. After him are Ruth Leuwerik, Frances Lee McCain, John Dall, Branscombe Richmond, Sally Kellerman, and Ron Silver.
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Britain's first above-the-title film star of Indian origin - indeed, for many years India's only truly international star - Sabu's own life story was as unlikely and fantastic as that of many of the characters he played. Despite his lack of acting experience and a less than perfect command of English, it's easy to see from his opening straight-to-camera narration alone just why the veteran documentarist Robert Flaherty was literally charmed into casting him as Toomai, the title role of Elephant Boy (1937).
His full name is the subject of some controversy. Most reference books have it as 'Sabu Dastagir', but his son Paul confirmed that his real name was Selar Sabu, although his brother's was Sheik Dastagir. Sabu was born on 27 January 1924 in Karapure, Mysore, in southern India and his early life has many parallels with Toomai's: his mother died when he was very young and he was raised by his father, a mahout, or elephant driver. When he too died in 1931, the six-year-old Sabu was taken into the service of the Maharajah of Mysore, first as a stable boy, then as a mahout in his own right, and it was when riding one of his beloved elephants that Flaherty first saw him when looking for someone to play Rudyard Kipling's Toomai of the Elephants (from 'The Jungle Book').
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From the Archives: Sabu Dies of Dishonorable Attack
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