BoyActors - Sabu

Welcome to BoyActors. Login.

Sabu

Date of Birth: 27th January 1924
Details of Death: 2nd December 1963
Country of Birth: India

Notes

also known as Sabu Dastagir
According to research by his biographer Philip Leibfried, Sabu was originally called Selar Shaik. His elder brother (later his manager) was called Dastagir. But this latter name was mistakenly entered as their family name when the brothers arrived in England, and it became their surname, the elder brother henceforth taking the first name Shaik (i.e. he went from being Dastagir Shaik to Shaik Dastagir), with Selar Shaik becoming Selar Dastagir. It was producer Alexander Korda who devised the name Sabu for Selar, thus finally transforming his name to Sabu Dastagir.
The filmography on this page only lists Sabu's credits up to 1942. For his later credits, see his IMDb page (link above).

Filmography

Elephant Boy (1937) (as Toomai of the Elephants)
The Drum (1938) (as Prince Azim)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940) (as Abu)

Page Last Modified: 24th March 2022
Page Added: 6th May 2003

Page Views: 10879

This site is non-commercial and is not an official or representative web presence for any of the actors or movies listed. All images and text are the property of their respective owners. Do not link directly to any of the images on this site - please upload them to your own webspace, on the understanding that yours is also a non-commercial site.

While every effort will be made to ensure that no offensive or illegal material is posted on the forums or linked to from the links database, BoyActors administrators accept no responsibility for any content posted or linked to by its members.

PHORM PROHIBITED

The contents of this site, and communications between this site and its users, are protected by database right, copyright, confidentiality and the right not to be intercepted conferred by section 1(3) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. The use of those contents and communications by Internet Service Providers or others to profile or classify users of this site for advertising or other purposes is strictly forbidden.