High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gummadi Venkateswara Rao popularly known as Gummadi (9 July 1925 – 26 January 2010) was a popular Telugu film character actor. Though he began to act in films much later than famous artistes like N.T.Rama Rao and Akkineni Nageswara Rao he had through the course of his career acquired a niche for himself vis a vis the character roles of brother, father etc. which he often undertook.