caption death_date death_place birth_name birth_place years_active imagesize other_names relatives parents birth_date spouse image article_title name occupation
kumar in the 1943 film '' kismet '' 10 december 2001 mumbai , maharastra , india kumudlal kunjilal ganguly bhagalpur , bihar , british india 1936 -- 1997 220px sanjay ashok kumar dadamoni kumudlal ganguly kishore -rrb- sati devi -lrb- sister -rrb- sashadhar mukherjee -lrb- brother-in-law kumar -rrb- see ganguly family see mukherjee-samarth family -lrb- brother -rrb- anoop kumar -lrb- brother kunjilal ganguly gauri devi ganguly 13 october 1911 shobha devi ashok kumar in kismet1.jpg ashok kumar
 ashok kumar actor , painter
ashok kumar

ashok kumar -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- 13 october 1911 -- 10 december 2001 -rrb- , born kumudlal ganguly -lrb- -rrb- and also fondly called dadamoni , -lrb- -rrb- was an indian film actor who attained iconic status in indian cinema .
he was honoured in 1988 with the dadasaheb phalke award , the highest national award for cinema artists , by the government of india and also received the padma bhushan the same year in 1998 for his contributions to indian cinema .
he is considered to be one of india 's finest ever actors , playing leading , negative and character roles with equal panache .
