Cherd Songsri

Cherd Songsri was a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A maker of period films that sought to introduce international audiences to his vision of Thai culture, his best-known work is the 1977 romance film Plae Kao, which earned more box-office receipts than any Thai film before it. It won a prize at the 1981 Three Continents Festival in Nantes, France.

20 September 1931

Born on the same birth day (20 September): Alberto de Lacerda • Jean-Jacques Olier • Kyle Anderson (basketball) • Loredana Bertè • Martino Martini • N'Bushe Wright • Sidney Dillon Ripley

Born in the same month (September 1931): Alan Simpson (American politician) • Brook Benton • Cecil Parkinson • Elizabeth Blackadder • George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie • Gerald Merrithew • Julio Grondona • Lauretta Ngcobo • Little Willie Littlefield • Marjorie Jackson-Nelson • Mike Parkes • Rein Maran • Robin Hyman • September 21 • Stan Lynde • Teresa Gorman