"King of Romance", Gemini Ganesan known as one of the "big three" of South Indian Cinema (the other two being M.G. Ramchandran, and Sivaji Ganesan).
Ramaswamy Ganesan had acted in several box-office hits between 1950 and 1978 as the lead hero. Born on November 17th,1920 he was a graduate from an orthodox Brahmin family, and had begun his career as a Lecturer in the Madras Christian College, but subsequently began to work with Gemini Studios as an Executive from 1947, hence he was referred to as "Gemini" Ganesan.
A Padmasree recipient in 1971, Ganesan also won the Kalaimamani, MGR Gold Medal and Screen Life Time Achievement awards.
