Manavalan Joseph was born at Fort Kochi then in the
Malabar District of the
Madras Presidency of
British India. His first film was Neelakuyyil in 1954. He was married to Thresia. The couple has three daughters and three sons. He died on 23 January 1986, of heart attack while he was at
Chennai for the dubbing of movie
Vartha. ==Filmography==