Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India] | 1935-08-22 | 1994-02-18

Gopi Krishna was an Indian Kathak dancer, actor and choreographer. In 1952, a seventeen year-old Gopi Krishna became one of the youngest choreographers in Hindi film history. He also set a world record for the longest continuous Kathak dance, at 9 hours and 20 minutes.