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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Young Washington | Robert Dinwiddie | 2026-07-04 |
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Deep Water | 2026-04-30 | |
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The Thursday Murder Club | Ibrahim | 2025-08-22 |
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William Tell | King Albrecht | 2025-01-17 |
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Desert Warrior | Emperor Kisra | 2025-09-28 |
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The King of Kings | High Priest Caiaphas (voice) | 2025-04-07 |
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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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Jules | Milton Robinson | 2023-08-10 |
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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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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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Spider in the Web | Adereth | 2019-04-20 |
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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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Schindler's List: 25 Years Later | Self | 2018-10-01 |
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Intrigo: Death of an Author | Henderson | 2018-10-11 |
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Operation Finale | Adolf Eichmann | 2018-08-29 |
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Who Killed British Cinema? | Self | 2018-11-26 |
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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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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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The Ottoman Lieutenant | Woodruff | 2017-03-28 |
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Spielberg | Self | 2017-10-05 |
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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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Of Dogs and Men | The Caller (voice) | 2016-10-22 |
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Collide | Geran | 2016-06-10 |
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The Jungle Book | Bagheera (voice) | 2016-04-07 |
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Robot Overlords | Robin Smythe | 2015-01-29 |
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The Walk | Papa Rudy | 2015-09-30 |
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Self/less | Damian | 2015-07-10 |
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Life | Jack Warner | 2015-09-09 |
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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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Knight of Cups | Storyteller (voice) | 2015-09-10 |
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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Merenkahre | 2014-12-17 |
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Learning to Drive | Darwan | 2014-08-21 |
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The Boxtrolls | Snatcher (voice) | 2014-09-10 |
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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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Stonehearst Asylum | Silas Lamb | 2014-10-23 |
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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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War Story | Albert | 2014-01-19 |
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The Physician | Ibn Sina (Avicenna) | 2013-12-25 |
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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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A Common Man | The Man | 2013-06-30 |
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Muse of Fire | Self | 2013-09-26 |
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Iron Man 3 | Trevor Slattery | 2013-04-18 |
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A Therapy | Therapist | 2012-05-22 |
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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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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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The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo' | Self | 2012-02-28 |
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The Dictator | Tamir | 2012-05-15 |
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The Desert of Forbidden Art | Voice | 2011-03-18 |
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Hugo | Georges Méliès | 2011-11-22 |
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1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets | Al-Jazari / Librarian | 2010-01-21 |
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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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Shutter Island | Dr. Cawley | 2010-02-14 |
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Nizam | 2010-05-19 |
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Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny | Narrator | 2010-08-20 |
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Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse | Self | 2010-06-08 |
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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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War, Inc. | Walken / The Viceroy | 2008-04-28 |
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TransSiberian | Grinko | 2008-01-18 |
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The Wackness | Dr. Squires | 2008-07-03 |
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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 Last Legion | Ambrosinus | 2007-04-19 |
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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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You Kill Me | Frank Falenczyk | 2007-02-09 |
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The Ten Commandments | Narrator (voice) | 2007-10-19 |
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Mais Bastidores de Hollywood | Self | 2006-11-01 |
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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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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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C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia | Self | 2006-12-12 |
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Lucky Number Slevin | The Rabbi | 2006-02-24 |
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Oliver Twist | Fagin | 2005-09-23 |
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A Sound of Thunder | Charles Hatton | 2005-05-15 |
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Peace Is Every Step | Narrator | 2005-12-13 |
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BloodRayne | Kagan | 2005-10-22 |
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Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2005-03-01 |
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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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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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The Making of ‘Sneakers’ | Self | 2003-06-03 |
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Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land | Narrator | 2003-01-01 |
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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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House of Sand and Fog | Behrani | 2003-12-19 |
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Tuck Everlasting | Man in the Yellow Suit | 2002-10-11 |
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Spooky House | The Great Zamboni | 2002-04-19 |
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Islam: Empire of Faith | Self - Narrator | 2001-05-08 |
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The Making of Sexy Beast | Self | 2001-07-13 |
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Sexy Beast | Don Logan | 2001-01-12 |
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Specialist (voice) | 2001-06-29 |
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The Triumph of Love | Hermocrates | 2001-09-07 |
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What Planet Are You From? | Graydon | 2000-03-03 |
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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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A Force More Powerful | Narator | 1999-12-01 |
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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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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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Weapons of Mass Distraction | Julian Messenger | 1997-05-17 |
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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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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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Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold | Self | 1994-02-01 |
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Death and the Maiden | Dr. Roberto Miranda | 1994-05-04 |
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Liberation | Narrator | 1994-01-01 |
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Schindler's List | Itzhak Stern | 1993-12-15 |
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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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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 - Moses the Lawgiver | Narrator (voice) | 1991-09-14 |
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Bugsy | Meyer Lansky | 1991-12-10 |
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The War That Never Ends | Pericles | 1991-03-28 |
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Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin | Narrator (voice) | 1991-09-01 |
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L'amore necessario | 1991-11-27 | |
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O Quinto Macaco | Cunda | 1990-10-05 |
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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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Una vita scellerata | Governor | 1990-05-02 |
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Romeo.Juliet | Father Capulet (voice) | 1990-01-01 |
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Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Simon Wiesenthal | 1989-04-22 |
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Slipstream | Avatar | 1989-06-22 |
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The Making of Slipstream | 1989-10-25 | |
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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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To Be Hamlet | Self | 1985-01-19 |
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Silas Marner | Silas Marner | 1985-12-30 |
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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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Fortitude | ||
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Mary | King Herod | |
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