G.V. Iyer was born in September 1917 in Nanjangud, Mysore, British India as Ganapathy Venkataramana Iyer. He was a director and actor, known for Adi Shankaracharya (1983), Bhagwat Geeta (1993) and Vivekananda (1994). He died on December 21, 2003 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.