S. Sathyendra

S. Sathyendra has acted prominently in old movies in minor roles.

Life in Bangalore
He was born into a Telugu family in Tiputer in Karnataka. His father Sanjevaigh was the first Circle inspector of Police after the British in Karnataka. He was mostly brought up from the age of six to 21 in Bengaluru. He did all his schooling and college (Central College of Bangalore) in Bangalore. He has two postgraduations in Kannada literature and Philosophy and B.A. in Drama and Diploma in French and German and has working knowledge in Italian and Spanish.

He played character roles in college plays and in amateur theatre and has worked as a theatre actor with B. V. Karanth and Girish Karnad the avant-garde giants of Kannada theatre. His first film was Grahana, a Kannada film in which he played a pivotal role. His second film, in which he played a character role was Rishyasringa, produced by G. V. Iyer. He is the first television actor in Karnataka in the children's film Aane Banthu Aane, directed by Chandrashekhara Kambara. He has acted in Our Town by Thornton Wilder, directed by Jacqueline Henny from the USA. He worked as an assistant director for a French documentary film dealing with possessed people in Dargha.

He also worked with Indologists from Germany and America in the field of shadow puppetry and marionettes for 2 years. He often gives interviews to Tamil YouTube channels about his various achievements.