Pakistani movie actor Munir dead at 70

LAHORE, Pakistan, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Pakistani movie actor Badir Munir, who contended with kidney and diabetes ailments the past five years, has died after suffering a heart attack. He was 70.

Munir, who died Saturday at a Lahore hospital, had performed in 416 movies during a three-decade career that peaked in the 1970s and '80s, Dawn reported Sunday.

The one-time rickshaw driver got his start in the movie industry as a lighting technician at a studio in Karachi. Actor Waheed Murad got him his first acting job in 1970 when he was cast as a hero in "Yousaf Khan Shehar Bano" opposite heroine Yasmeen Khan.

Munir was married twice and had eight children.