death_date birth_place color nationality background birth_date image article_title education name occupation
19 december 1944 sri lanka black sri lankan #ffd 068 03 december 1900 lionel wendt.jpg lionel wendt
 s. temple , royal academy of music thomas ' college , mount lavinia , inner lionel wendt musician and cinematographer . , photographer , literature collector , critic ,
lionel wendt

wendt 's friend and poet pablo neruda wrote in his memoirs that wendt '' `` was the central figure of a cultural life torn between the death rattles of the empire and a human appraisal of the untapped values of ceylon . '' ''
