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).
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Deep Water | 2026-05-01 | |
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Young Washington | Robert Dinwiddie | 2026-07-04 |
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The Thursday Murder Club | Ibrahim | 2025-08-22 |
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Desert Warrior | Emperor Kisra | 2025-09-28 |
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William Tell | King Albrecht | 2025-01-17 |
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The King of Kings | High Priest Caiaphas (voice) | 2025-04-07 |
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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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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 Medicine Buddha | Narrator (voice) | 2019-11-20 |
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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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Inside the Operation | Self | 2018-12-04 |
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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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Who Killed British Cinema? | Self | 2018-11-26 |
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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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Backstabbing for Beginners | Pasha | 2018-01-18 |
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An Oral History of: Schindler's List | Self (archive footage) | 2018-12-15 |
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War Machine | President Karzai | 2017-05-26 |
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Spielberg | Self | 2017-10-05 |
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Security | Charlie | 2017-03-04 |
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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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The Jungle Book | Bagheera (voice) | 2016-04-07 |
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Collide | Geran | 2016-06-10 |
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Of Dogs and Men | The Caller (voice) | 2016-10-22 |
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Unity | Narrator (voice) | 2015-08-12 |
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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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Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | 2015-11-01 |
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Robot Overlords | Robin Smythe | 2015-01-29 |
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Life | Jack Warner | 2015-09-09 |
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Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse | Drago (Voice) | 2015-02-24 |
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Self/less | Damian | 2015-07-10 |
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The Boxtrolls | Snatcher (voice) | 2014-09-10 |
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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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War Story | Albert | 2014-01-19 |
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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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Walking with the Enemy | Regent Miklos Horthy | 2014-04-25 |
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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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A Birder's Guide to Everything | Lawrence Konrad | 2013-04-21 |
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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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The Dictator | Tamir | 2012-05-15 |
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Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' | Self | 2012-02-28 |
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A Therapy | Therapist | 2012-05-22 |
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Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime | Self | 2012-02-28 |
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The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo' | 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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It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl | Narrator | 2012-08-10 |
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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 | Dr. Cawley | 2010-02-14 |
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1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets | Al-Jazari / Librarian | 2010-01-21 |
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Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny | Narrator | 2010-08-20 |
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तीन पत्ती | Perci Trachtenberg | 2010-02-26 |
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Aral, the Lost Sea | 2010-09-20 | |
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Nizam | 2010-05-19 |
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Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta | Narrator | 2009-01-07 |
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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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Elegy | David Kepesh | 2008-08-08 |
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TransSiberian | Grinko | 2008-01-18 |
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Fifty Dead Men Walking | Fergus | 2008-09-10 |
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The Love Guru | Guru Tugginmypuddha | 2008-06-20 |
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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 | Self | 2007-05-28 |
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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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Mais Bastidores de Hollywood | Self | 2006-11-01 |
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C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia | Self | 2006-12-12 |
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The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel | Self | 2006-12-12 |
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The Life and Faith of CS Lewis | 2006-01-01 | |
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Lucky Number Slevin | The Rabbi | 2006-02-24 |
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50 Films to See Before You Die | Self | 2006-07-22 |
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Mrs. Harris | Herman Tarnower | 2006-02-25 |
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A Sound of Thunder | Charles Hatton | 2005-05-15 |
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Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2005-03-01 |
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BloodRayne | Kagan | 2005-10-22 |
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Peace Is Every Step | Narrator | 2005-12-13 |
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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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No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds | Self | 2004-07-24 |
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Thunderbirds | The Hood | 2004-07-23 |
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House of Sand and Fog | Behrani | 2003-12-19 |
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The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough | 2003-08-24 | |
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Unlikely Heroes | Narrator | 2003-09-03 |
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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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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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Sexy Beast | Don Logan | 2001-01-12 |
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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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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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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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The Assignment | Amos | 1997-09-28 |
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Weapons of Mass Distraction | Julian Messenger | 1997-05-17 |
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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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Moses | Moses | 1995-12-18 |
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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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Death and the Maiden | Dr. Roberto Miranda | 1994-05-04 |
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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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Dave | Vice-President Nance | 1993-05-07 |
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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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Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver | Narrator (voice) | 1991-09-14 |
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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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L'amore necessario | 1991-11-27 | |
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The War That Never Ends | Pericles | 1991-03-28 |
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Lenin: The Train | Lenin | 1990-04-30 |
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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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Una vita scellerata | Governor | 1990-05-02 |
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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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Slipstream | Avatar | 1989-06-22 |
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Without a Clue | Dr. John Watson | 1988-05-05 |
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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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Maurice | Lasker-Jones | 1987-09-18 |
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Harem | Selim | 1985-11-06 |
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Turtle Diary | William Snow | 1985-12-06 |
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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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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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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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Fortitude | ||
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Mary | King Herod | |
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