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Ben Kingsley
- Name: Ben Kingsley
- Birthday: 1943-12-31
- Also known as: Sir Ben Kingsley ,Krishna Pandit Bhanji,بن كينغسلي,벤 킹즐리,ベン・キングズレー,เบน คิงสลีย์,本·金斯利,Бен Кингсли,Krishna Bhanji,Σερ Μπεν Κίνγκσλεϊ,Μπεν Κίνγκσλεϊ,बेन किंग्सले,Сер Бен Кингсли,בן קינגסלי,班·金斯利,بن کینگزلی
- Place of birth: Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
- Popularity: 22.493
Biography:
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... Read More
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| Title | Release date |
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| The King of Kings as High Priest Caiaphas (voice) | 2025-04-10 |
| William Tell as King Albrecht | 2025-01-17 |
| The Killer's Game as Zvi Rabinowitz | 2024-09-12 |
| The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage) | 2024-03-14 |
| Poison as Dr. Ganderbai | 2023-09-29 |
| The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar as Imdad Khan / Croupier | 2023-09-20 |
| Jules as Milton Robinson | 2023-08-10 |
| Dalíland as Dalí | 2022-09-29 |
| Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry as Self | 2022-03-30 |
| Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings as Trevor Slattery | 2021-09-01 |
| Locked Down as Malcolm | 2021-02-25 |
| The Medicine Buddha as Narration | 2019-11-20 |
| Night Hunter as Cooper | 2019-08-29 |
| The Red Sea Diving Resort as Ethan Levin | 2019-07-28 |
| Spider in the Web as Adereth | 2019-04-20 |
| Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché as Self | 2018-12-07 |
| Inside The Operation as Self | 2018-12-04 |
| Who Killed British Cinema? as Self | 2018-11-26 |
| Intrigo: Death of an Author as Henderson | 2018-10-11 |
| Operation Finale as Adolf Eichmann | 2018-08-29 |
| Backstabbing for Beginners as Pasha | 2018-01-18 |
| An Ordinary Man as The General | 2017-10-09 |
| Spielberg as Self | 2017-10-05 |
| War Machine as President Karzai | 2017-05-26 |
| The Ottoman Lieutenant as Woodruff | 2017-03-28 |
| Security as Charlie | 2017-03-04 |
| Of Dogs and Men as The Caller (voice) | 2016-10-22 |
| Collide as Geran | 2016-06-10 |
| The Jungle Book as Bagheera (voice) | 2016-04-07 |
| Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive footage) | 2015-11-01 |
| The Walk as Papa Rudy | 2015-09-30 |
| Knight of Cups as Storyteller (voice) | 2015-09-10 |
| Life as Jack Warner | 2015-09-09 |
| Unity as Narrator (voice) | 2015-08-12 |
| Self/less as Damian | 2015-07-10 |
| Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse as Drago (Voice) | 2015-02-24 |
| Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb as Merenkahre | 2014-12-17 |
| Exodus: Gods and Kings as Nun | 2014-12-03 |
| Stonehearst Asylum as Silas Lamb | 2014-10-23 |
| Robot Overlords as Robin Smythe | 2014-10-18 |
| The Boxtrolls as Archibald Snatcher (voice) | 2014-09-10 |
| Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film as Self | 2014-08-25 |
| Learning to Drive as Darwan | 2014-08-21 |
| Walking with the Enemy as Regent Miklos Horthy | 2014-04-25 |
| Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin | 2014-02-04 |
| And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| War Story as Albert | 2014-01-19 |
| The Physician as Ibn Sina (Avicenna) | 2013-12-25 |
| Ender's Game as Mazer Rackham | 2013-10-24 |
| Muse of Fire as Self | 2013-09-26 |
| A Common Man as The Man | 2013-06-30 |
| A Birder's Guide to Everything as Lawrence Konrad | 2013-04-21 |
| Iron Man 3 as Trevor Slattery | 2013-04-18 |
| It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl as Narrator | 2012-08-10 |
| Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard as Self | 2012-05-28 |
| A Therapy as Therapist | 2012-05-22 |
| The Dictator as Tamir | 2012-05-15 |
| The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès as Self | 2012-02-28 |
| The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo' as Self | 2012-02-28 |
| Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' as Self | 2012-02-28 |
| Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime as Self | 2012-02-28 |
| Hugo as Georges Méliès | 2011-11-22 |
| The Desert of Forbidden Art as Voice | 2011-03-18 |
| Aral, the Lost Sea | 2010-09-20 |
| The Sands of Time: The Making of 'Prince of Persia' as Self | 2010-09-14 |
| Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny as Narrator | 2010-08-20 |
| Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse as Self | 2010-06-08 |
| Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time as Nizam | 2010-05-19 |
| Teen Patti as Perci Trachtenberg | 2010-02-26 |
| Shutter Island as Dr. Cawley | 2010-02-14 |
| 1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets as Al-Jazari / Librarian | 2010-01-21 |
| Journey to Mecca as Narrator | 2009-01-07 |
| Fifty Dead Men Walking as Fergus | 2008-09-10 |
| Elegy as David Kepesh | 2008-08-08 |
| The Wackness as Dr. Squires | 2008-07-03 |
| The Love Guru as Guru Tugginmypuddha | 2008-06-20 |
| War, Inc. as Walken / The Viceroy | 2008-04-28 |
| TransSiberian as Grinko | 2008-01-18 |
| The Ten Commandments as Narrator (voice) | 2007-10-19 |
| I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal | 2007-05-28 |
| The Last Legion as Ambrosinus | 2007-04-19 |
| You Kill Me as Frank Falenczyk | 2007-02-09 |
| The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel as Self | 2006-12-12 |
| C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia as Self | 2006-12-12 |
| Mais Bastidores de Hollywood as Self | 2006-11-01 |
| 50 Films to See Before You Die as Self | 2006-07-22 |
| Mrs. Harris as Herman Tarnower | 2006-02-25 |
| Lucky Number Slevin as The Rabbi | 2006-02-24 |
| The Life and Faith of CS Lewis | 2006-01-01 |
| Peace Is Every Step as Narrator | 2005-12-13 |
| BloodRayne as Kagan | 2005-10-22 |
| Oliver Twist as Fagin | 2005-09-23 |
| A Sound of Thunder as Charles Hatton | 2005-05-15 |
| Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self | 2005-03-01 |
| Suspect Zero as Benjamin O'Ryan | 2004-08-27 |
| No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds as Self | 2004-07-24 |
| Thunderbirds as The Hood | 2004-07-23 |
| Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust as Self | 2004-01-01 |
| House of Sand and Fog as Behrani | 2003-12-19 |
| Unlikely Heroes as Narrator | 2003-09-03 |
| The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough | 2003-08-24 |
| The Making of ‘Sneakers’ as Self | 2003-06-03 |
| Tuck Everlasting as Man in the Yellow Suit | 2002-10-11 |
| Spooky House as The Great Zamboni | 2002-04-19 |
| The Triumph of Love as Hermocrates | 2001-09-07 |
| The Making of Sexy Beast as Self | 2001-07-13 |
| A.I. Artificial Intelligence as Specialist (voice) | 2001-06-29 |
| Islam: Empire of Faith as Self - Narrator | 2001-05-08 |
| Sexy Beast as Don Logan | 2001-01-12 |
| Rules of Engagement as Ambassador Mourain | 2000-04-07 |
| What Planet Are You From? as Graydon | 2000-03-03 |
| A Force More Powerful as Narator | 1999-12-01 |
| Parting Shots as Renzo Locatelli | 1999-05-14 |
| The Confession as Harry Fertig | 1999-03-26 |
| Alice in Wonderland as Major Caterpillar | 1999-02-28 |
| Crime and Punishment as Magistrate Porfiry | 1998-10-11 |
| The Tale of Sweeney Todd as Sweeney Todd | 1998-08-30 |
| The Assignment as Amos | 1997-09-28 |
| Photographing Fairies as Rev. Templeton | 1997-09-19 |
| Weapons of Mass Distraction as Julian Messenger | 1997-05-17 |
| Twelfth Night as Feste | 1996-10-25 |
| Moses as Moses | 1995-12-18 |
| Species as Xavier Fitch | 1995-07-07 |
| Joseph as Potifar | 1995-04-10 |
| Death and the Maiden as Dr. Roberto Miranda | 1994-05-04 |
| Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold as Self | 1994-02-01 |
| Liberation as Narrator | 1994-01-01 |
| Schindler's List as Itzhak Stern | 1993-12-15 |
| Searching for Bobby Fischer as Bruce Pandolfini | 1993-08-13 |
| Dave as Vice-President Nance | 1993-05-07 |
| Sneakers as Cosmo | 1992-09-09 |
| Freddie as F.R.O.7. as Freddie (voice) | 1992-08-14 |
| Bugsy as Meyer Lansky | 1991-12-10 |
| Necessary Love | 1991-11-27 |
| Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver as Narrator (voice) | 1991-09-14 |
| Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin as Narrator (voice) | 1991-09-01 |
| The War That Never Ends as Pericles | 1991-03-28 |
| The Fifth Monkey as Cunda | 1990-10-05 |
| The Children as Martin Boyne | 1990-05-18 |
| Cellini: A Violent Life as Governatore | 1990-05-02 |
| Lenin: The Train as Lenin | 1990-04-30 |
| Romeo.Juliet as Father Capulet (voice) | 1990-01-01 |
| Slipstream as Avatar | 1989-06-22 |
| Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story as Simon Wiesenthal | 1989-04-22 |
| Testimony as Dmitri Shostakovich | 1988-11-01 |
| Pascali's Island as Basil Pascali | 1988-07-22 |
| Without a Clue as Dr. John Watson | 1988-05-05 |
| Maurice as Lasker-Jones | 1987-09-18 |
| Silas Marner as Silas Marner | 1985-12-30 |
| Turtle Diary as William Snow | 1985-12-06 |
| Harem as Selim | 1985-11-06 |
| To Be Hamlet as Self | 1985-01-19 |
| Camille as Duval | 1984-12-11 |
| Schindler as Self - Narrator (2019) (voice) | 1983-10-01 |
| Betrayal as Robert | 1983-02-19 |
| Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi as Self | 1983-02-01 |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor as Frank Ford | 1982-12-28 |
| Gandhi as Mahatma Gandhi | 1982-12-01 |
| Every Good Boy Deserves Favour as Ivanov | 1979-11-14 |
| Antony and Cleopatra as Thidias | 1975-01-04 |
| Hard Labour as Naseem | 1973-03-12 |
| Fear Is the Key as Royale | 1972-12-26 |
