Biography
Hollywood's favorite Hindu, Lal Chand Mehra began his long screen career writing Hindi subtitles for Cecil B. DeMille's
The King of Kings. A former English teacher in India's Punjap province, Mehra would appear in all the legendary
Empire films, from
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) to
Gunga Din (1939) to King of the Khyber Riffles (1953), playing High Priests, customs officers, waiters, and others. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide