1943-12-31 Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji) is an English actor. He has received accolades throughout his career spanning five decades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards. Kingsley was appointed Knight Bachelor in 2002 for services to the British film industry. He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and received the Britannia Award in 2013. Born to an English mother and an Indian Gujarati father with roots in Jamnagar, Kingsley began his career in theatre, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 and spending the next 15 years appearing mainly on stage. His starring roles included productions of As You Like It (his West End debut for the company at the Aldwych Theatre in 1967), Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Also known for his television roles, he received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performances in Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989), Joseph (1995), Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001), and Mrs. Harris (2006). In film, Kingsley is known for his starring role as Mahatma Gandhi in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982), for which he subsequently won the Academy Award for Best Actor and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. For his portrayal of Itzhak Stern in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993), he received a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role nomination. He was Oscar-nominated for Bugsy (1990), Sexy Beast (2000), and House of Sand and Fog (2003). His other notable films include Maurice (1987), Sneakers (1992), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Death and the Maiden (1994), Twelfth Night (1996), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Elegy (2008), Shutter Island (2010), and Hugo (2011). Kingsley played the character of Trevor Slattery in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in Iron Man 3 (2013), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), and the upcoming Disney+ series Wonder Man. He also acted in the blockbusters Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) and Ender's Game (2013). Kingsley lent his voice to the films The Boxtrolls (2014) and The Jungle Book (2016).
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Deep Water | 2026-02-12 | |
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Young Washington | Robert Dinwiddie | 2026-07-04 |
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The King of Kings | High Priest Caiaphas (voice) | 2025-04-07 |
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William Tell | King Albrecht | 2025-01-17 |
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The Thursday Murder Club | Ibrahim Arif | 2025-08-22 |
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The Killer's Game | Zvi Rabinowitz | 2024-09-12 |
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More | Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage) | 2024-03-14 |
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Poison | Dr. Ganderbai | 2023-09-29 |
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar | Imdad Khan / Croupier | 2023-09-20 |
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Jules | Milton Robinson | 2023-08-10 |
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Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry | Self | 2022-03-30 |
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Dalíland | Dalí | 2022-09-29 |
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Trevor Slattery | 2021-09-01 |
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Locked Down | Malcolm | 2021-02-25 |
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The Medicine Buddha | Narrator (voice) | 2019-11-20 |
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Night Hunter | Cooper | 2019-08-08 |
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The Red Sea Diving Resort | Ethan Levin | 2019-07-28 |
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Spider in the Web | Adereth | 2019-04-20 |
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Who Killed British Cinema? | Self | 2018-11-26 |
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Inside The Operation | Self | 2018-12-04 |
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Operation Finale | Adolf Eichmann | 2018-08-29 |
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Intrigo: Death of an Author | Henderson | 2018-10-11 |
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Schindler's List: 25 Years Later | Self | 2018-10-01 |
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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché | Self | 2018-12-07 |
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Backstabbing for Beginners | Pasha | 2018-01-18 |
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The Ottoman Lieutenant | Woodruff | 2017-03-28 |
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Security | Charlie | 2017-03-04 |
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An Ordinary Man | The General | 2017-10-09 |
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War Machine | President Karzai | 2017-05-26 |
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Spielberg | Self | 2017-10-05 |
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The Jungle Book | Bagheera (voice) | 2016-04-07 |
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Of Dogs and Men | The Caller (voice) | 2016-10-22 |
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Collide | Geran | 2016-06-10 |
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Self/less | Damian | 2015-07-10 |
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Unity | Narrator (voice) | 2015-08-12 |
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Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse | Drago (Voice) | 2015-02-24 |
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Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | 2015-11-01 |
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Life | Jack Warner | 2015-09-09 |
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Knight of Cups | Storyteller (voice) | 2015-09-10 |
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The Walk | Papa Rudy | 2015-09-30 |
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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Merenkahre | 2014-12-17 |
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Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Self | 2014-08-25 |
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Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King | Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin | 2014-02-04 |
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War Story | Albert | 2014-01-19 |
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Learning to Drive | Darwan | 2014-08-21 |
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Exodus: Gods and Kings | Nun | 2014-12-03 |
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Walking with the Enemy | Regent Miklos Horthy | 2014-04-25 |
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Stonehearst Asylum | Silas Lamb | 2014-10-23 |
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Robot Overlords | Robin Smythe | 2014-10-18 |
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The Boxtrolls | Snatcher (voice) | 2014-09-10 |
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A Birder's Guide to Everything | Lawrence Konrad | 2013-04-21 |
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A Common Man | The Man | 2013-06-30 |
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Muse of Fire | Self | 2013-09-26 |
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Ender's Game | Mazer Rackham | 2013-10-24 |
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The Physician | Ibn Sina (Avicenna) | 2013-12-25 |
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Iron Man 3 | Trevor Slattery | 2013-04-18 |
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It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl | Narrator | 2012-08-10 |
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Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' | Self | 2012-02-28 |
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The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo' | Self | 2012-02-28 |
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A Therapy | Therapist | 2012-05-22 |
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The Dictator | Tamir | 2012-05-15 |
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Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime | Self | 2012-02-28 |
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Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard | Self | 2012-05-28 |
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The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès | Self | 2012-02-28 |
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Hugo | Georges Méliès | 2011-11-22 |
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The Desert of Forbidden Art | Voice | 2011-03-18 |
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Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse | Self | 2010-06-08 |
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Aral, the Lost Sea | 2010-09-20 | |
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तीन पत्ती | Perci Trachtenberg | 2010-02-26 |
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1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets | Al-Jazari / Librarian | 2010-01-21 |
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Shutter Island | Dr. Cawley | 2010-02-14 |
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Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny | Narrator | 2010-08-20 |
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Nizam | 2010-05-19 |
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Journey to Mecca | Narrator | 2009-01-07 |
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TransSiberian | Grinko | 2008-01-18 |
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Elegy | David Kepesh | 2008-08-08 |
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The Wackness | Dr. Squires | 2008-07-03 |
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The Love Guru | Guru Tugginmypuddha | 2008-06-20 |
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War, Inc. | Walken / The Viceroy | 2008-04-28 |
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Fifty Dead Men Walking | Fergus | 2008-09-10 |
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The Last Legion | Ambrosinus | 2007-04-19 |
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You Kill Me | Frank Falenczyk | 2007-02-09 |
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The Ten Commandments | Narrator (voice) | 2007-10-19 |
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Je ne vous ai jamais oublié : la vie et l'héritage de Simon Wiesenthal | 2007-05-28 | |
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The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel | Self | 2006-12-12 |
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Mrs. Harris | Herman Tarnower | 2006-02-25 |
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50 Films to See Before You Die | Self | 2006-07-22 |
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Lucky Number Slevin | The Rabbi | 2006-02-24 |
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C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia | Self | 2006-12-12 |
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Mais Bastidores de Hollywood | Self | 2006-11-01 |
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The Life and Faith of CS Lewis | 2006-01-01 | |
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Peace Is Every Step | Narrator | 2005-12-13 |
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Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Self | 2005-03-01 |
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A Sound of Thunder | Charles Hatton | 2005-05-15 |
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BloodRayne | Kagan | 2005-10-22 |
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Oliver Twist | Fagin | 2005-09-23 |
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Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust | Self | 2004-01-01 |
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Suspect Zero | Benjamin O'Ryan | 2004-08-27 |
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Thunderbirds | The Hood | 2004-07-23 |
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No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds | Self | 2004-07-24 |
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The Making of ‘Sneakers’ | Self | 2003-06-03 |
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Unlikely Heroes | Narrator | 2003-09-03 |
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The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough | 2003-08-24 | |
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House of Sand and Fog | Behrani | 2003-12-19 |
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Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land | Narrator | 2003-01-01 |
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Spooky House | The Great Zamboni | 2002-04-19 |
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Tuck Everlasting | Man in the Yellow Suit | 2002-10-11 |
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Islam: Empire of Faith | Self - Narrator | 2001-05-08 |
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The Triumph of Love | Hermocrates | 2001-09-07 |
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The Making of Sexy Beast | Self | 2001-07-13 |
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Specialist (voice) | 2001-06-29 |
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What Planet Are You From? | Graydon | 2000-03-03 |
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Sexy Beast | Don Logan | 2000-09-13 |
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Rules of Engagement | Ambassador Mourain | 2000-04-07 |
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The Confession | Harry Fertig | 1999-03-26 |
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Alice in Wonderland | Major Caterpillar | 1999-02-28 |
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Parting Shots | Renzo Locatelli | 1999-05-14 |
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A Force More Powerful | Narator | 1999-12-01 |
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The Tale of Sweeney Todd | Sweeney Todd | 1998-08-30 |
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Crime and Punishment | Magistrate Porfiry | 1998-10-11 |
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Photographing Fairies | Rev. Templeton | 1997-09-19 |
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The Assignment | Amos | 1997-09-28 |
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Weapons of Mass Distraction | Julian Messenger | 1997-05-17 |
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Twelfth Night | Feste | 1996-10-25 |
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Moïse | Moses | 1996-04-07 |
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Joseph | Potifar | 1995-04-10 |
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Moses | Moses | 1995-12-18 |
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Species | Xavier Fitch | 1995-07-07 |
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Death and the Maiden | Dr. Roberto Miranda | 1994-05-04 |
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Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold | Self | 1994-02-01 |
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Liberation | Narrator | 1994-01-01 |
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Dave | Vice-President Nance | 1993-05-07 |
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Searching for Bobby Fischer | Bruce Pandolfini | 1993-08-13 |
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Schindler's List | Itzhak Stern | 1993-12-15 |
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Freddie as F.R.O.7. | Freddie (voice) | 1992-08-14 |
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Sneakers | Cosmo | 1992-09-09 |
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Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin | Narrator (voice) | 1991-09-01 |
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Bugsy | Meyer Lansky | 1991-12-10 |
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Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver | Narrator (voice) | 1991-09-14 |
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L'amore necessario | 1991-11-27 | |
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The War That Never Ends | Pericles | 1991-03-28 |
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The Children | Martin Boyne | 1990-05-18 |
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Una vita scellerata | Governatore | 1990-05-02 |
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O Quinto Macaco | Cunda | 1990-10-05 |
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Romeo.Juliet | Father Capulet (voice) | 1990-01-01 |
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Lenin: The Train | Lenin | 1990-04-30 |
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Slipstream | Avatar | 1989-06-22 |
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Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Simon Wiesenthal | 1989-04-22 |
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The Making of Slipstream | 1989-10-25 | |
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Testimony | Dmitri Shostakovich | 1988-11-01 |
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Pascali's Island | Basil Pascali | 1988-07-22 |
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Without a Clue | Dr. John Watson | 1988-05-05 |
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Maurice | Lasker-Jones | 1987-09-18 |
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Turtle Diary | William Snow | 1985-12-06 |
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Harem | Selim | 1985-11-06 |
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To Be Hamlet | Self | 1985-01-19 |
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Silas Marner | Silas Marner | 1985-12-30 |
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Camille | Duval | 1984-12-11 |
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Betrayal | Robert | 1983-02-19 |
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Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi | Self | 1983-02-01 |
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Schindler | Self - Narrator (2019) (voice) | 1983-10-01 |
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Gandhi | Mahatma Gandhi | 1982-12-01 |
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The Merry Wives of Windsor | Frank Ford | 1982-12-28 |
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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour | Ivanov | 1979-11-14 |
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Antony and Cleopatra | Thidias | 1975-01-04 |
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Hard Labour | Naseem | 1973-03-12 |
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Fear Is the Key | Royale | 1972-12-26 |
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The Way of the Wind | ||
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Mary | King Herod | |
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Desert Warrior | Emperor Kisra |
