He started as a waiter in Cotton Green after which he got into boxing and bodybuilding.
1938
Muddu Babu Shetty (1 January 1938 – 23 January 1982) simply known as, M. B. Shetty, or Shetty was an Indian film stuntman, action choreographer and actor in Hindi cinema in 1970s.
He had a towering personality with a bald head, often cast as the villain brought down by heroes half his size.
He was the father of director Rohit Shetty.
1956
He started off as a Fight Instructor in the 1956 movie Heer.
1970
He was cast as villain and composed stunts for numerous Hindi and Kannada cinema in the 1970s.
He was an action director, doing over 700 films, including cult films like Don, The Great Gambler, Trishul, Deewaar and Shalimar.
1977
Shetty also starred with M.G. Ramachandran (MGR), in Navarathinam (1977) Tamil movie.
His first wife was Vinodini, with whom he had two daughters and two sons.
With his second wife, Ratna, he had another son, the film director Rohit Shetty.
