David Abraham Cheulkar's Biography

David Abraham Cheulkar was born in 1908. He was also known as David was a Jewish-Indian Hindi-language film actor. The actor started his film career with 1941 film Naya Sansar and he acted in over 110 films.




David was actively associated with IPTA and hence was part of many Khwaja Ahmad Abbas's films, including, Pardesi, Shehar Aur Sapna, Munaa and Char Dil Char Raahein.

Strongly associated with friendly uncle roles, David is best known for his evergreen role of John Chacha in the 1954 hit Boot Polish, directed by Prakash Arora for which he won the 1955 Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award.

The selected filmography of actor is Insaaf (1946), Nargis (1946), Ghulami (1945), Insaan (1944), Tasveer (1943), Anjaan (1941), Naya Sansar (1941), Mamta (1966), Himalay Ki Godh Mein (1965), Ek Phool Char Kaante (1960), Amar Deep (1958), Pardesi (1957), Bhai Bhai (1956) and so on....The actor was not married and died on 28 December 1981 in Toronto, Canada.