
Known for
Writing
Born
January 23, 1922
Birthplace
Chachoengsao, Thailand
Died
January 1, 1997 (aged 74)
Born in 1922 in Chachoengsao, Thailand, Vichit Kounavudhi graduated from Vajiravudh College in 1946 and started working as a journalist under the pen name Kunawut.
He broke into film in 1950, when he was offered the villain's role in Fa Kamnod. From there, he worked as a screenwriter, writing the dialogue for an adaptation of Wannaboon Withayakom's Phrom Bandan. His first screenplay was Santi-Vina. In 1978 he wrote and directed the drama, My Dear Wife. Next he wrote and directed Mountain People, a docu-drama about Thailand's hill tribes. It is one of his best regarded films. But his most well-known, critically acclaimed film is 1982's A Son of the Northeast, which was shot in a similar docu...
2024
as Self (archive footage)
1989
Director
1985
Director, Screenplay, Editor
1982
Screenplay, Editor, Director
1979
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1977
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1971
Director, Writer, Editor
1967
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1967
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1966
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1966
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1965
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1965
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1961
Director, Screenplay
1955
Screenplay
1954
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