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- Robin Tampoe was born on December 29, 1930 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Robin was a director and producer, known for Sirimalee (1959), Mahadana Mutha (1966) and Sudo Sudu (1965). Robin died on March 22, 2000 in Sri Lanka.
- Tampoe contributed to the organization of the first festival of Sinhala films at the Shanthi cinema in Jaffna.
- Between 1956 and 1974, his films were shot exclusively in the Sinhala language.
- He made one teledrama in 1996 which was never released for want of sponsorship.
- When the 1961 ban was imposed on Ceylonese directors, prohibiting the shooting of Sinhala films in South India, he began making films in Sri Lankan soil. During this period, he used only ethnic Sinhala crew and refrain from dubbing and sub-titling Sinhala films into foreign languages.
- Robin Tampoe was a film maker of Sri Lankan cinema.
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