Tony Ranasinghe

Acting

Tony Ranasinghe

Born 1937-07-31 · Colombo, Sri Lanka

Deshabandu Ranasinghe Hettiarachchilage Ignatius Anthony Silva, popularly as Tony Ranasinghe, was an award-winning actor in Sri Lankan cinema, theater and television. He is known as the Lover of the 70s in Sri Lankan cinema due to the many popular films in which he acted

Acting credits

Thousand Thoughts poster
7.0

Lalith is a chief Clarke of a Government Department. He falls in love with Nilanthi, a newly recruited typist. But Nilanthi is attracted to another handsome young Clarke in the same department named Sagara. Lalith detests this. He starts to suspect each and every act of Sagara and Nilanthi. ‘Dahasak Sithivili’ is based on Lalith’s efforts to prevent himself from getting carried away by these endless suspicions.

Thousand Thoughts

1968

Baddegama poster
6.0

Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people in British Colonial Sri Lanka. The film is based on the 1913 book titled as "The Village in the Jungle" by Leonard Woolf. Silindu is a hunter in a small village where he and his family endure a life of hardships. After facing disease and poverty under colonial rule, the final blow comes when Silindu is tried for murder.

Baddegama

1980

Between Two Worlds poster
6.6

The son of a newly rich industrialist becomes embroiled in a murder cover-up.

Between Two Worlds

1966

Awaragira poster
8.0

Awaragira is a 1990 Sri Lankan film directed by Lester James Peries and produced by Dilman Jayaratne for Dil Films. It stars Joe Abeywickrama, Iranganie Serasinghe and Tony Ranasinghe in lead roles along with Lucky Dias and Vasanthi Chathurani. Music composed by Premasiri Khemadasa.

Awaragira

1990

Kaliyugaya poster
8.5

Piyal and Nanda have now aged, and their children have left them. Priya reminisces on her life after her son sends her a letter from London accusing her and her husband of various faults.

Kaliyugaya

1982

Maya poster
NR

The story follows a seven-year-old girl from an aristocratic family who is brutally murdered and subsequently reborn in a rural village.

Maya

1984

Dark Night of the Soul poster
6.3

Suwisal has turned 40. He's a forgetful businessman, a philanderer, indifferent to life around him, including his young and lovely fiancée. A visit to the house of his childhood triggers memories that continue to cascade when he is called for jury duty to hear the case against Piyum, a servant he seduced and abandoned 20 years before. Now a prostitute, she is on trial for murder.

Dark Night of the Soul

1996

Hathdinnath Tharu poster
NR

Film starring Vijaya Kumaranatunga and Malani Fonseka.

Hathdinnath Tharu

1973

The Virgins poster
9.0

Anil Ruwanwalla, a young photographer meets beautiful Deepthi in a pub and later the friendship turns into love.

The Virgins

1993

Savithri's Night poster
NR

Savithri's Night (Savithrige Rathriya) is the 863rd movie in Sri Lankan film industry.

Savithri's Night

1997

Parasathu Mal poster
NR

The story follows Bonny Mahaththaya (Gamini Fonseka), a wealthy and hedonistic landowner who lives a life of wine and pleasure. His world is challenged by his unrequited love for Kamala (Punya Heendeniya), who instead loves a humble worker named Sirisena (Joe Abeywickrama).

Parasathu Mal

1966

Sagarayak Meda poster
NR

The cost of living sky rocketed. The government introduced an income ceiling. Private practice for doctors was abolished. It was the fate of Dr. Moladanda to live with a struggle he did not create.

Sagarayak Meda

1981

White Flowers for the Dead poster
10.0

Dr. Sarath (Tony Ranasinghe) domineers over his timid wife Vineetha (Sriyani Amarasena). When she is to have a Caesarean delivery of their baby, Sarath refuses to be present even though he himself is a doctor. She dies during surgery and Sarath is forced to live with the spectre of his wife hanging over him.

White Flowers for the Dead

1978

Walls Within poster
6.0

Sri Lankan director Prasanna Vithanage sets this tragic story of the fifties in the walled city of Galle Fort, where Violet, a middle-aged woman, has raised two daughters alone. One is married and one engaged, and she seeks to get them settled as the reappearance of Victor, her lost first love, makes her wonder if she might also be happy.

Walls Within

1997

Friends poster
NR

Yahaluvo (Friends) (යහළුවෝ), also known as Yahaluwo, is a 2007 Sinhala romantic drama film. It was directed by Sumitra Peries, produced by Namal Senasinghe, the brother of Sujeewa Senasinghe, and scored by Navaratne Gamage. The film stars Sujeewa Senasinghe and Pooja Umashankar in lead roles along with Iranganie Serasinghe, Tony Ranasinghe, Kamal Addararachchi, and Anarkali Akarsha in supportive roles. It is the 1097th Sri Lankan film in the Sinhala cinema.

Friends

2007

The Yellow Robe poster
8.0

Cyril (Tony Ranasinghe) is dissatisfied with his introverted fiancée Sujatha (Punya Heendeniya). He starts a relationship with the outgoing Sarojini (Anula Karunatilleke) and gets her pregnant. Sujatha meanwhile is fascinated by a wandering Buddhist nun. Due to the pregnancy, Cyril breaks off the engagement having no intention to marry Sarojini. Till the birth of the child he supports her and then leaves her for an older rich woman. Sarojini is distraught and contemplates suicide. Sujatha by this time is planning to become a nun.

The Yellow Robe

1967

Hanthane Kathawa poster
NR

Anura, a village youth manages to qualify for university where he discovers a whole new world which threatens his beliefs and values.

Hanthane Kathawa

1968

Sikuru Hathe poster
9.7

The story revolves around the match-maker Mangala Jaya (Vijaya), who is a poor, but kind hearted person with a single daughter. A series of hilarious incidents went through the plot, and though he is a match-maker, he fails to find a good boy to his young daughter. At last, his daughter was able to find the soul mate.

Sikuru Hathe

2007

Mother Alone poster
NR

Duwata Mawaka Misa (translated as Mother Alone) is a critically acclaimed Sinhala film released in 1997. Directed by the legendary filmmaker Sumitra Peries, the movie is known for its poignant portrayal of family dynamics and maternal themes.

Mother Alone

1997

By the river poster
7.0

England educated Dr. Sarath Pathirana (Vijaya Kumaratunga), who is willing to try out new methods to treat his patients, is directed towards a special patient by the Head Doctor (Henry Jayasena) at the mental hospital. This patient is a beautiful girl named Nirmala…

By the river

1980

Behind the camera

The Tree Goddess poster
NR

Vaishnavee (The Goddess), (Sinhalese: වෛෂ්ණාවී) is a 2018 Sri Lankan Sinhala drama thriller film directed by veteran director Sumitra Peries and produced by Mano Nanayakkara. 1930’s, Sri Lanka. Partly a compelling domestic drama, and a demonic love story, the narrative follows a puppet-maker who’s set to be married to a young girl. Unfortunately, the girl elopes with her secret lover. Devastated, the grieving puppet-maker ends up carving a puppet in her likeness, which eventually comes to life, setting in motion a fantastical chain of events.

The Tree Goddess

2018

Awaragira poster
8.0

Awaragira is a 1990 Sri Lankan film directed by Lester James Peries and produced by Dilman Jayaratne for Dil Films. It stars Joe Abeywickrama, Iranganie Serasinghe and Tony Ranasinghe in lead roles along with Lucky Dias and Vasanthi Chathurani. Music composed by Premasiri Khemadasa.

Awaragira

1990

Keli Madala poster
NR

A woman has an affair with an ambitious politician who feels that their unborn child, conceived out of wedlock will hinder his carrier.

Keli Madala

1991

Walls Within poster
6.0

Sri Lankan director Prasanna Vithanage sets this tragic story of the fifties in the walled city of Galle Fort, where Violet, a middle-aged woman, has raised two daughters alone. One is married and one engaged, and she seeks to get them settled as the reappearance of Victor, her lost first love, makes her wonder if she might also be happy.

Walls Within

1997

Mother Alone poster
NR

Duwata Mawaka Misa (translated as Mother Alone) is a critically acclaimed Sinhala film released in 1997. Directed by the legendary filmmaker Sumitra Peries, the movie is known for its poignant portrayal of family dynamics and maternal themes.

Mother Alone

1997