1943-12-31 Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Kingsley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Deep Water | 2026-02-12 | |
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The King of Kings | High Priest Caiaphas (voice) | 2025-04-07 |
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The Thursday Murder Club | Ibrahim Arif | 2025-08-22 |
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William Tell | King Albrecht | 2025-01-17 |
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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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The Killer's Game | Zvi Rabinowitz | 2024-09-12 |
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar | Imdad Khan / Croupier | 2023-09-20 |
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Poison | Dr. Ganderbai | 2023-09-29 |
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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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Locked Down | Malcolm | 2021-02-25 |
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Trevor Slattery | 2021-09-01 |
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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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The Medicine Buddha | Narrator (voice) | 2019-11-20 |
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Who Killed British Cinema? | Self | 2018-11-26 |
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Operation Finale | Adolf Eichmann | 2018-08-29 |
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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché | Self | 2018-12-07 |
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Inside The Operation | Self | 2018-12-04 |
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Backstabbing for Beginners | Pasha | 2018-01-18 |
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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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Security | Charlie | 2017-03-04 |
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Spielberg | Self | 2017-10-05 |
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The Ottoman Lieutenant | Woodruff | 2017-03-28 |
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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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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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The Walk | Papa Rudy | 2015-09-30 |
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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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Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | 2015-11-01 |
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Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse | Drago (Voice) | 2015-02-24 |
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Unity | Narrator (voice) | 2015-08-12 |
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Robot Overlords | Robin Smythe | 2014-10-18 |
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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Merenkahre | 2014-12-17 |
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Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King | Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin | 2014-02-04 |
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The Boxtrolls | Snatcher (voice) | 2014-09-10 |
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War Story | Albert | 2014-01-19 |
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Walking with the Enemy | Regent Miklos Horthy | 2014-04-25 |
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Learning to Drive | Darwan | 2014-08-21 |
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Stonehearst Asylum | Silas Lamb | 2014-10-23 |
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Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Self | 2014-08-25 |
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Exodus: Gods and Kings | Nun | 2014-12-03 |
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And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
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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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The Physician | Ibn Sina (Avicenna) | 2013-12-25 |
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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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Iron Man 3 | Trevor Slattery | 2013-04-18 |
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Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard | Self | 2012-05-28 |
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Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime | Self | 2012-02-28 |
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The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès | Self | 2012-02-28 |
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It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl | Narrator | 2012-08-10 |
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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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Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' | Self | 2012-02-28 |
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The Dictator | Tamir | 2012-05-15 |
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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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1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets | Al-Jazari / Librarian | 2010-01-21 |
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Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse | Self | 2010-06-08 |
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Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny | Narrator | 2010-08-20 |
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Aral, the Lost Sea | 2010-09-20 | |
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Shutter Island | Dr. Cawley | 2010-02-14 |
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तीन पत्ती | Perci Trachtenberg | 2010-02-26 |
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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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Elegy | David Kepesh | 2008-08-08 |
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The Love Guru | Guru Tugginmypuddha | 2008-06-20 |
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Fifty Dead Men Walking | Fergus | 2008-09-10 |
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The Wackness | Dr. Squires | 2008-07-03 |
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War, Inc. | Walken / The Viceroy | 2008-04-28 |
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TransSiberian | Grinko | 2008-01-18 |
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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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You Kill Me | Frank Falenczyk | 2007-02-09 |
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The Last Legion | Ambrosinus | 2007-04-19 |
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The Ten Commandments | Narrator (voice) | 2007-10-19 |
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The Life and Faith of CS Lewis | 2006-01-01 | |
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The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel | Self | 2006-12-12 |
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C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia | Self | 2006-12-12 |
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50 Films to See Before You Die | Self | 2006-07-22 |
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Mais Bastidores de Hollywood | Self | 2006-11-01 |
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Lucky Number Slevin | The Rabbi | 2006-02-24 |
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Mrs. Harris | Herman Tarnower | 2006-02-25 |
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BloodRayne | Kagan | 2005-10-22 |
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A Sound of Thunder | Charles Hatton | 2005-05-15 |
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Oliver Twist | Fagin | 2005-09-23 |
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Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Self | 2005-03-01 |
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Peace Is Every Step | Narrator | 2005-12-13 |
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Thunderbirds | The Hood | 2004-07-23 |
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Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust | Self | 2004-01-01 |
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No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds | Self | 2004-07-24 |
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Suspect Zero | Benjamin O'Ryan | 2004-08-27 |
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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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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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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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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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Islam: Empire of Faith | Self - Narrator | 2001-05-08 |
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Specialist (voice) | 2001-06-29 |
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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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What Planet Are You From? | Graydon | 2000-03-03 |
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Alice in Wonderland | Major Caterpillar | 1999-02-28 |
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A Force More Powerful | Narator | 1999-12-01 |
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Parting Shots | Renzo Locatelli | 1999-05-14 |
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The Confession | Harry Fertig | 1999-03-26 |
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Crime and Punishment | Magistrate Porfiry | 1998-10-11 |
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The Tale of Sweeney Todd | Sweeney Todd | 1998-08-30 |
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Weapons of Mass Distraction | Julian Messenger | 1997-05-17 |
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The Assignment | Amos | 1997-09-28 |
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Photographing Fairies | Rev. Templeton | 1997-09-19 |
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Twelfth Night | Feste | 1996-10-25 |
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Species | Xavier Fitch | 1995-07-07 |
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Joseph | Potifar | 1995-04-10 |
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Liberation | Narrator | 1994-01-01 |
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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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Dave | Vice-President Nance | 1993-05-07 |
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Schindler's List | Itzhak Stern | 1993-12-15 |
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Searching for Bobby Fischer | Bruce Pandolfini | 1993-08-13 |
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Sneakers | Cosmo | 1992-09-09 |
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Freddie as F.R.O.7. | Freddie (voice) | 1992-08-14 |
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Bugsy | Meyer Lansky | 1991-12-10 |
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L'amore necessario | 1991-11-27 | |
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Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin | Narrator (voice) | 1991-09-01 |
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Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver | Narrator (voice) | 1991-09-14 |
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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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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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Una vita scellerata | Governatore | 1990-05-02 |
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Slipstream | Avatar | 1989-06-22 |
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The Making of Slipstream | 1989-10-25 | |
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Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Simon Wiesenthal | 1989-04-22 |
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Pascali's Island | Basil Pascali | 1988-07-22 |
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Testimony | Dmitri Shostakovich | 1988-11-01 |
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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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Silas Marner | Silas Marner | 1985-12-30 |
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To Be Hamlet | Self | 1985-01-19 |
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Harem | Selim | 1985-11-06 |
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Turtle Diary | William Snow | 1985-12-06 |
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Camille | Duval | 1984-12-11 |
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Schindler | Self - Narrator (2019) (voice) | 1983-10-01 |
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Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi | Self | 1983-02-01 |
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Betrayal | Robert | 1983-02-19 |
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The Merry Wives of Windsor | Frank Ford | 1982-12-28 |
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Gandhi | Mahatma Gandhi | 1982-12-01 |
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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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Desert Warrior | Emperor Kisra | |
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