Born: 1912, Peshawar, Pakistan
Died: 23 September 1988
Trilok Kapoor was an Indian film actor, and a member of the Kapoor family. The second son of Basheshwarnath Kapoor, like his brother Prithviraj Kapoor he entered the budding Hindi film industry (Bollywood), building a career mostly in mythological films.
Born in Peshawar, he moved to Calcutta and then to Mumbai. His first role was in Char Darvesh (1933). He played Shiva in Vijay Bhatt's 1954 epic Ramayan. He played many roles in mythological films, and appeared together with Nirupa Roy in eighteen movies, usually he playing Shiva and she Parvati. As a pair, their popularity erupted after the 1950 movie Har Har Mahadev and lasted until Roy moved on to social movies.
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