Ben Kingsley
Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE (born 31 December 1943), born Krishna Pandit Bhanji , is a British actor. He has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He is also known for his performances in the films Schindler's List (1993), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010), and House of Sand and Fog.
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- Born:
- Dec 31, 1943 In Yorkshire, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 169
- First Appeared:
- Movie Young Washington 2026-07-04
- Latest Project:
- In the movie The Way of the Wind
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Way of the Wind | 2027 | |
| Movie | Mary | King Herod | 2027 |
| Series | Wonder Man | Trevor Slattery | 2026-01-27 |
| Movie | Deep Water | 2026-05-01 | |
| Movie | Young Washington | Robert Dinwiddie | 2026-07-04 |
| Movie | Desert Warrior | Emperor Kisra | 2025-09-28 |
| Movie | William Tell | 2025-01-17 | |
| Movie | The Killer's Game | Zvi Rabinowitz | 2024-09-12 |
| Movie | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More | Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage) | 2024-03-14 |
| Movie | Poison | Dr. Ganderbai | 2023-09-29 |
| Movie | Jules | Milton Robinson | 2023-08-10 |
| Movie | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar | Imdad Khan / Croupier | 2023-09-20 |
| Movie | Dalíland | Salvador Dali | 2022-09-29 |
| Movie | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Trevor Slattery | 2021-09-01 |
| Movie | Locked Down | Malcolm | 2021-02-25 |
| Series | Perpetual Grace LTD | Pastor Byron “Pa” Brown | 2019-06-02 |
| Movie | Night Hunter | Cooper | 2019-08-08 |
| Movie | The Red Sea Diving Resort | Ethan Levin | 2019-07-28 |
| Movie | Spider in the Web | Adereth | 2019-04-20 |
| Series | All or Nothing: Manchester City | Narrator | 2018-08-17 |
| Movie | Operation Finale | Adolf Eichmann | 2018-08-29 |
| Movie | Backstabbing for Beginners | Pasha | 2018-01-18 |
| Movie | Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché | Himself | 2018-12-07 |
| Movie | Inside the Operation | 2018-12-04 | |
| Movie | Intrigo: Death of an Author | Henderson | 2018-10-11 |
| Series | Watership Down | General Woundwort (voice) | 2018-12-22 |
| Movie | Who Killed British Cinema? | Himself | 2018-11-26 |
| Movie | Security | Charlie | 2017-03-04 |
| Movie | War Machine | President Karzai | 2017-05-26 |
| Movie | An Ordinary Man | The General | 2017-10-09 |
| Movie | Spielberg | Himself | 2017-10-05 |
| Movie | The Ottoman Lieutenant | Woodruff | 2017-03-28 |
| Movie | Of Dogs and Men | The Caller (voice) | 2016-10-22 |
| Movie | The Jungle Book | Bagheera (voice) | 2016-04-07 |
| Movie | Collide | Geran | 2016-06-10 |
| Series | Lip Sync Battle | Unknown | 2015-04-02 |
| Movie | Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse | Drago (Voice) | 2015-02-24 |
| Movie | Self/less | Damian | 2015-07-10 |
| Movie | Robot Overlords | Robin Smythe | 2015-01-29 |
| Series | Tut | Ay | 2015-07-19 |
| Movie | The Walk | Papa Rudy | 2015-09-30 |
| Movie | Knight of Cups | (voice) | 2015-09-10 |
| Movie | Unity | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 2015-08-12 |
| Movie | Life | Jack Warner | 2015-09-09 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Himself - Interviewee | 2014-02-01 |
| Movie | War Story | Albert | 2014-01-19 |
| Movie | Walking with the Enemy | Regent Miklos Horthy | 2014-04-25 |
| Movie | Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King | Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin | 2014-02-04 |
| Movie | Learning to Drive | Darwan | 2014-08-21 |
| Movie | Exodus: Gods and Kings | Nun | 2014-12-03 |
| Movie | Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Merenkahre | 2014-12-17 |
| Movie | Stonehearst Asylum | Silas Lamb | 2014-10-23 |
| Movie | Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Himself | 2014-08-25 |
| Movie | The Boxtrolls | Archibald Snatcher (voice) | 2014-09-10 |
| Movie | Iron Man 3 | Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin | 2013-04-18 |
| Movie | A Birder's Guide to Everything | Lawrence Konrad | 2013-04-21 |
| Movie | Ender's Game | Mazer Rackham | 2013-10-24 |
| Movie | The Physician | Ibn Sina (Avicenna) | 2013-12-25 |
| Movie | Muse of Fire | Himself | 2013-09-26 |
| Movie | A Common Man | The Man | 2013-06-30 |
| Movie | The Dictator | Tamir | 2012-05-15 |
| Movie | It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl | Narrator | 2012-08-10 |
| Movie | A Therapy | Therapist | 2012-05-22 |
| Movie | Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard | Himself | 2012-05-28 |
| Movie | Hugo | Georges Méliès | 2011-11-22 |
| Movie | The Desert of Forbidden Art | Voice | 2011-03-18 |
| Movie | 1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets | Al-Jazari / Librarian | 2010-01-21 |
| Movie | Shutter Island | Dr. John Cawley | 2010-02-14 |
| Movie | Teen Patti | Perci Trachtenberg | 2010-02-26 |
| Movie | Aral, the Lost Sea | 2010-09-20 | |
| Movie | Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny | Narrator | 2010-08-20 |
| Movie | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Nizam | 2010-05-19 |
| Movie | Journey to Mecca | Narrator | 2009-01-07 |
| Movie | TransSiberian | Grinko | 2008-01-18 |
| Movie | War, Inc. | Walken / The Viceroy | 2008-04-28 |
| Movie | Elegy | David Kepesh | 2008-08-08 |
| Movie | The Love Guru | Guru Tugginmypuddha | 2008-06-20 |
| Movie | The Wackness | Dr. Squires | 2008-07-03 |
| Movie | Fifty Dead Men Walking | Fergus | 2008-09-10 |
| Movie | You Kill Me | Frank Falenczyk | 2007-02-09 |
| Movie | The Last Legion | Ambrosinus | 2007-04-19 |
| Movie | I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal | 2007-05-28 | |
| Movie | The Ten Commandments | Narrator (voice) | 2007-10-19 |
| Movie | Lucky Number Slevin | The Rabbi | 2006-02-24 |
| Movie | Mrs. Harris | Herman Tarnower | 2006-02-25 |
| Movie | Mais Bastidores de Hollywood | Self | 2006-11-01 |
| Movie | 50 Films to See Before You Die | Self | 2006-07-22 |
| Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | A Sound of Thunder | Charles Hatton | 2005-05-15 |
| Movie | Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Self | 2005-03-01 |
| Movie | Oliver Twist | Fagin | 2005-09-23 |
| Movie | BloodRayne | Kagan | 2005-10-22 |
| Movie | Peace Is Every Step | Narrator | 2005-12-13 |
| Movie | Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust | 2004-01-01 | |
| Movie | Thunderbirds | The Hood | 2004-07-23 |
| Movie | Suspect Zero | Benjamin O'Ryan | 2004-08-27 |
| Movie | No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds | Self | 2004-07-24 |
| Movie | House of Sand and Fog | Behrani | 2003-12-19 |
| Movie | The Making of ‘Sneakers’ | Self | 2003-06-03 |
| Movie | Unlikely Heroes | Narrator | 2003-09-03 |
| Movie | Tuck Everlasting | Man in the Yellow Suit | 2002-10-11 |
| Movie | Spooky House | The Great Zamboni | 2002-04-19 |
| Movie | Sexy Beast | Don Logan | 2001-01-12 |
| Series | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | Otto Frank | 2001-05-20 |
| Movie | The Triumph of Love | Hermocrates | 2001-09-07 |
| Movie | A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Specialist (voice) | 2001-06-29 |
| Movie | Islam: Empire of Faith | Himself - Narrator | 2001-05-08 |
| Movie | What Planet Are You From? | Graydon | 2000-03-03 |
| Movie | Rules of Engagement | Ambassador Mourain | 2000-04-07 |
| Movie | A Force More Powerful | Narator | 1999-12-01 |
| Movie | Alice in Wonderland | Major Caterpillar | 1999-02-28 |
| Movie | The Confession | Harry Fertig | 1999-03-26 |
| Movie | Parting Shots | Renzo Locatelli | 1999-05-14 |
| Series | Rove | Himself | 1999-09-22 |
| Movie | The Tale of Sweeney Todd | Sweeney Todd | 1998-08-30 |
| Movie | Crime and Punishment | Porfiry | 1998-10-11 |
| Movie | The Assignment | Amos | 1997-09-28 |
| Movie | Weapons of Mass Distraction | Julian Messenger | 1997-05-17 |
| Movie | Photographing Fairies | Rev. Templeton | 1997-09-19 |
| Movie | Twelfth Night | Feste | 1996-10-25 |
| Movie | Joseph | Potifar | 1995-04-10 |
| Movie | Species | Xavier Fitch | 1995-07-07 |
| Movie | Death and the Maiden | Dr. Roberto Miranda | 1994-05-04 |
| Movie | Liberation | Narrator | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold | Self | 1994-02-01 |
| Movie | Schindler's List | Itzhak Stern | 1993-12-15 |
| Movie | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Bruce Pandolfini | 1993-08-13 |
| Movie | Dave | Vice-President Nance | 1993-05-07 |
| Movie | Sneakers | Cosmo | 1992-09-09 |
| Movie | Freddie As F.R.O.7. | Freddie (voice) | 1992-08-14 |
| Movie | Bugsy | Meyer Lansky | 1991-12-10 |
| Movie | Necessary Love | 1991-11-27 | |
| Movie | Lenin: The Train | Lenin | 1990-04-30 |
| Movie | Romeo.Juliet | Father Capulet (voice) | 1990-01-01 |
| Movie | The Children | Martin Boyne | 1990-05-18 |
| Movie | The Fifth Monkey | Cunda | 1990-10-05 |
| Movie | Cellini: A Violent Life | Governatore | 1990-05-02 |
| Movie | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Simon Wiesenthal | 1989-04-22 |
| Movie | Slipstream | Avatar | 1989-06-22 |
| Series | The Secret of the Sahara | Sholomon | 1988-01-03 |
| Movie | Testimony | Dimitri Shostakovich | 1988-11-01 |
| Series | Lenin... The Train | Lenin | 1988-11-30 |
| Movie | Pascali's Island | Basil Pascali | 1988-07-22 |
| Movie | Without a Clue | Dr. John Watson | 1988-05-05 |
| Movie | Maurice | Lasker-Jones | 1987-09-18 |
| Movie | Turtle Diary | William Snow | 1985-12-06 |
| Movie | Silas Marner | Silas Marner | 1985-12-30 |
| Movie | Harem | Selim | 1985-11-06 |
| Series | Goldene Kamera | himself | 1984-02-03 |
| Movie | Camille | Duval | 1984-12-11 |
| Series | Playing Shakespeare | 1984-07-29 | |
| Movie | Schindler | Self - Narrator (2019) (voice) | 1983-10-01 |
| Movie | Betrayal | Robert | 1983-02-19 |
| Movie | Gandhi | Mahatma Gandhi | 1982-12-01 |
| Movie | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Frank Ford | 1982-12-28 |
| Series | Wetten, dass..? | Unknown | 1981-02-14 |
| Series | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Unknown | 1978-12-03 |
| Series | Dickens of London | Dr. John Elliotson | 1976-09-28 |
| Movie | Antony and Cleopatra | Thidias | 1975-01-04 |
| Series | Playhouse | Robert Cibrario | 1974-03-13 |
| Series | Wessex Tales | Unknown | 1973-11-07 |
| Movie | Hard Labour | Naseem | 1973-03-12 |
| Series | Pebble Mill at One | Unknown | 1972-10-09 |
| Series | The Adventurer | Pierre | 1972-09-29 |
| Movie | Fear Is the Key | Royale | 1972-12-26 |
| Series | Orlando | Peter Batterby | 1965-04-13 |
| Series | Pardon the Expression | Roy | 1965-06-02 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |
| Series | Bambi | himself | 1948-01-01 |