Feroz Khan Tanoli - Actor Indian Film Industry

Feroz Khan Tanoli was an Indian actor, film editor, producer and director in the Hindi film industry for his flamboyant style, with cowboyish swagger and cigar toting persona which revolutionized the style quotient of the otherwise conventional Bollywood hero, he was known as the Clint Eastwood of the East and a style icon in the industry.

Feroz Khan was born in Bangalore, India. His father Sadiq Ali Khan Tanoli hailed from a Persian speaking tribe in the Ghazni Province of Afghanistan and his mother Bibi Fatima was from Iran.

He was educated in Bishop Cotton Boys School, Bangalore and St. Germain High School, Bangalore. His brothers are Sanjay Khan (Abbas Khan), Shahrukh Shah Ali Khan, Sameer Khan and Akbar Khan. He has a sister Dilshad Bibi. After his schooling in Bangalore, he travelled to Mumbai where he made his debut as second lead in Didi in 1960.

Feroz Khan married Sundari Khan in 1965, but divorced in 1985. They have two children, Laila Khan (born 1970), and Fardeen Khan (born 1974). Fardeen is married to Natasha Madhwani, daughter of former Bollywood actor Mumtaz.

Khan died as a result of cancer on 27 April 2009 at the age of 69 in Bangalore.