Veteran actor and winner of Raghupati Venkaiah award - Gummadi died of cardiac arrest at 11:30 pm on the night of 26 January 2010. He was born in 9 July, 1927.

Lots of Telugu film and political personalities inclusing ANR, MS Reddy, Krishna, Vijaya Nirmala, Murali Mohan, Ram Charan Teja, Nagababu, D Rama Naidu, Chandra Babu Naidu, Tammareddy Krishna Murthy, Jayasudha, Mrs Mohan Babu, Mrs Chiranjeevi, Mrs. Bala Krishna, Krishnam Raju, Giri Babu, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Ali, R Narayana Murthy, Sana, Jamuna, Ahuti Prasad, Ramesh Prasad, S Gopal Reddy, B Gopal, Parandheswari, Daggubati Venkateswara Rao, D Suresh Babu, Vamsi, Sivaji Raja, Arjuna Raju, Tammareddy Bharadwaja, Kodela Siva Prasad, N Shankar, Nandamuri Rama Krishna, Dr, Jaya Prakash Narayan, Mada, Sivaji Raja, Brahmanandam, Lakshmi Parvati, Dr. C Narayana Reddy, Adiseshagiri Rao, DVS Raju, Siva Krishna, Balayya, VB Rajendra Prasad, Kavitha, Allu Arvind, Nitin Kapoor, Raja, Sudha,Hema, KL Narayana, Seenu Vytla, Lakshmi Manchu, T Subbirami Reddy, Tanikella Bharani, Pavala Syamala, Muthyala Subbayya, Bandaru Dattatreya, Dharmarapu, Naresh etc paid respects to him.