Henry Jayasena

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.6976

Gender

Male

Birthday

06-Jul-1931

Age

(95 years old)

Place of Birth

Gampaha, Sri Lanka

Also Known As
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Henry Jayasena

Biography

Kala Keerthi Dr. Bastian Koralage Henry Rudrigo Jayasena, popularly known as Henry Jayasena, was an actor in Sri Lankan cinema, theater and television. With a career spanning more than four decades, Jayasena is considered one of the best dramatists in Sri Lankan drama.


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පුංචි සුරංගනාවි පුංචි සුරංගනාවි (2002) Character: Psychiatric
Punchi Suranganavi (Little Angel) is a 2002 Sri Lankan Sinhala children's film directed by Somaratne Dissanayake and produced by Renuka Balasooriya. It stars two child artists Tharaka Hettiarachchi and Nithyavani Kandasami in lead roles along with Sriyantha Mendis and Dilani Abeywardana.
ගැහැණු ගැට ගැහැණු ගැට (1959) Character: Bandula
Gehenu Geta is a 1959 Sri Lankan film directed by Jyotish Sinha, Kingsley Rajapakse, and T. Somasekaran. The film stars Henry Jayasena, Kumari Bibile, Dudley Wanaguru, Udula Dabare, Florida Jayalath, Vincent Weerasekera, Joe Abeywickrema. Released on 24 July. Story based on English filmThe Fabulous Senorita(1952), Hindi filmAlbela(1951) and Tamil filmManamagan Thevai(1957). The film was produced in Sri Lanka.
Ordinary Magic Ordinary Magic (1993) Character: Priest
When his father dies, Jeffrey is sent to live with his aunt Charlotte in Canada. Once there he leads his aunt and his friends in staging, a non-violent hunger strike to try to save his aunt's house from being demolished to make room for a ski resort.
Soldadu Unnahe Soldadu Unnahe (1981) Character: N/A
During Sri Lanka’s Independence Day on its eve, the holiday and the day after, and involves the participation of four oppressed souls: a World War II veteran, a prostitute, her thieving pimp and a clerk who have chosen the base of a tree as their asylum from the spectacle of pageantry.
මරුවා සමඟ වාසේ මරුවා සමඟ වාසේ (1977) Character: Police Superintendent
Based on the character of the infamous bandit Marusira, Maruwa Samaga Wase is another movie that was directed by Titus Thotawatte. Marusira A.K.A Siripala is a criminal who escaped death three times but was finally put to rest, which actually caused a huge controversy in society.
Randiya Dahara Randiya Dahara (2004) Character: Samantha's father
Follows the story of a struggling young woman who pretends to be the wife of a missing soldier to claim compensation money for going abroad, only for the soldier to return alive.
ගම්පෙරලිය ගම්පෙරලිය (1963) Character: Priyal Weliwela
Piyal is a handsome young teacher who is hired to teach English to Nanda, a member of a high class family. They fall in love, but can't elope because Piyal is of a lower class. Nanda's parents instead push her into a marriage with Jinadasa, who is of the same class as them. With economic downturn in Sri Lanka, both families lose their status and Jinadasa leaves to try to make a better life for himself; he never achieves his goal and dies penniless. Piyal and Nanda can now finally come together. They have changed however, and the earlier idylic nature of their relationship is not recaptured.
හඳයා හඳයා (1979) Character: Mr. Perera
Sooppuwa, a young boy is unhappy with Sena, who has been given the responsibility of looking after Handaya, the horse. To avenge Sena, Sooppuwa and his gang attack him and kidnap his brother Chutte. Sena is challenged in a horse race, where he emerges a winner in spite of many obstacles.
කලියුගය කලියුගය (1982) Character: Priyal Weliwela
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.
ගඟ අද්දර ගඟ අද්දර (1980) Character: Head Doctor
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…
දහසක් සිතුවිලි දහසක් සිතුවිලි (1968) Character: N/A
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.
Ghosts Can't Do It Ghosts Can't Do It (1989) Character: Mayor
Elderly Scott kills himself after a heart attack wrecks his body, but then comes back as a ghost and convinces his loving young hot wife Kate to pick and kill a young man in order for Scott to possess his body and be with her again.
හංසවිලක් හංසවිලක් (1980) Character: N/A
A married man (Nissanka) and woman (Miranda) find their lives disrupted after their affair is exposed by the police. Leaving their respective families, the two decide to live together. Shortly afterwards, Miranda secretly goes back to see her former husband. As paranoia mounts, Nissanka disintegrates psychologically to point where reality and fantasy are blurred.
Baddegama Baddegama (1980) Character: Village Headsman
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.



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