- Graduated from Sri Siddhartha Central College in Badulla, Sri Lanka.
- Has two daughters, Roshanthi and Sureka, and a son, Prasanna.
- Graduated from St. Bede's College in Badulla, Sri Lanka.
- Father died when he was 18 months old in a flood that occurred in Trincomalee district of Sri Lanka.
- Has two brothers.
- Father Don Henry Kodippili was a surveyor, his mother Ethan was a housewife.
- From 1956 to 1961 he served in the military police .
- In 2019, he was honoured with Janabhimani Honorary Award at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall.
- He was a Sri Lankan film actor and director. Primarily acted as a villain for most of his career, Kodippili appeared in more than 130 films and produced two films.
- While working at the Hotel Salaka, he became friends with Oswald Jayasinghe and Dommie Jayawardena. In 1969, while he was dropping Jayasinghe off at a film location in Nugegoda, the film's director, K. A. W. Perera, approached him and cast him in the role of a pick-pocket in the film Kathuru Muwath. In the meantime, he had the opportunity to do "double" roles in action scenes for the lead actors in movie fight scenes including stunt double for Senadheera Rupasinghe in the film Hathara Denama Soorayo.
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