Lal Chand Mehra

Lal Chand Mehra
Lal Chand Mehra in 1933
Born	August 14, 1897 Amritsar, India
Died	October 21, 1980 (aged 83) Los Angeles, California, USA
Education	University of Punjab University of California Berkeley
Occupation(s)	Actor, academic
Spouse	Georgia Williams (m. 1933)

Lal Chand Mehra was an Indian character actor and academic active in Hollywood from the 1920s through the 1960s.^[1]

Biography

Mehra was born into a prominent Hindu family in Amritsar, India. He attended the University of Punjab as an undergraduate,^[2] and got his postgraduate degrees in education and philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley.^[3]

In Hollywood, he worked as an actor and also as a technical director on films that called for knowledge of Indian culture and customs.^[4][5] He also gave lectures on Indian culture and current events throughout Southern California and on the radio. He told reporters he planned on eventually going back to India and directing films, but it does not appear that he returned to India.^[4]

He married concert violinist Georgia Williams in 1933.

Selected filmography

• Escape to Burma (1955)
• Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948)
• The Caribbean Mystery (1945)
• The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Bombay Clipper (1942)
• Drums of Fu Manchu (1940)
• Island of Lost Men (1939)
• Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939)
• Storm Over Bengal (1938)
• The Thirteenth Chair (1937)
• The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936)
• The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
• The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
• The King of Kings (1927)

References

1. Kear, Lynn; Rossman, John (2016-03-30). The Complete Kay Francis Career Record: All Film, Stage, Radio and Television Appearances. McFarland. ISBN 9781476602875.
2. Cline, John; Weiner, Robert G. (2010-07-17). From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse: Highbrow and Lowbrow Transgression in Cinema's First Century. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810876552.
3. "Radiography". The Los Angeles Times. 8 Sep 1935. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
4. "In Hollywood". The Bristol Herald Courier. 24 Mar 1929. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
5. "Madera Tribune 23 February 1934 — California Digital Newspaper Collection". cdnc.ucr.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-11.