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- Birth nameEllis R. Duncan
- Ellis Dungan was born on April 28, 1908 in Ohio, USA. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Meera (1949), The Jungle (1952) and Shakuntala (1940). He died on December 1, 2001 in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA.
- Dungan had no knowledge of Indian languages, a problem which never affected his career as a director of films in Indian languages, especially Tamil.
- He introduced many new techniques to Indian cinema despite the technical limitations of that period.
- He bought his first box camera to take pictures for the school yearbook, for which he was editor-in-chief. He later enrolled at the University of Southern California in 1932 in the newly established Cinematography & Motion Picture Production Department.
- Dungan filmed his movies in the temples by passing himself off as a Kashmiri pundit.
- He was an Irish-American film director, who was well known for working in Indian films, predominantly in Tamil cinema, from 1936 to 1950.
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