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:
- 156
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Way of the Wind
- Latest Project:
- Movie Deep Water 2026-05-01
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Way of the Wind | 2026 | |
| Movie | Fortitude | 2026 | |
| Movie | Deep Water | 2026-05-01 | |
| Movie | William Tell | King Albrecht | 2025-01-17 |
| Movie | Desert Warrior | Emperor Kisra | 2025-09-28 |
| Movie | The Thursday Murder Club | Ibrahim | 2025-08-22 |
| Movie | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More | Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage) | 2024-03-14 |
| Movie | The Killer's Game | Zvi Rabinowitz | 2024-09-12 |
| Movie | Jules | Milton Robinson | 2023-08-10 |
| Movie | Poison | Dr. Ganderbai | 2023-09-29 |
| Movie | Dalíland | Dalí | 2022-09-29 |
| Movie | Locked Down | Malcolm | 2021-02-25 |
| Movie | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Trevor Slattery | 2021-09-01 |
| Series | Perpetual Grace LTD | Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown | 2019-06-02 |
| Movie | Spider in the Web | Adereth | 2019-04-20 |
| Movie | The Red Sea Diving Resort | Ethan Levin | 2019-07-28 |
| Movie | Night Hunter | Cooper | 2019-08-08 |
| Series | All or Nothing: Manchester City | Narrator (voice) | 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 | Self | 2018-12-07 |
| Movie | Intrigo: Death of an Author | Henderson | 2018-10-11 |
| Series | Watership Down | General Woundwort (voice) | 2018-12-22 |
| Movie | Inside the Operation | Self | 2018-12-04 |
| Movie | Who Killed British Cinema? | Self | 2018-11-26 |
| Movie | The Ottoman Lieutenant | Woodruff | 2017-03-28 |
| Movie | Security | Charlie | 2017-03-04 |
| Movie | An Ordinary Man | The General | 2017-10-09 |
| Movie | Spielberg | Self | 2017-10-05 |
| Movie | War Machine | President Karzai | 2017-05-26 |
| Movie | The Jungle Book | Bagheera (voice) | 2016-04-07 |
| Movie | Collide | Geran | 2016-06-10 |
| Movie | Of Dogs and Men | The Caller (voice) | 2016-10-22 |
| Movie | Self/less | Damian | 2015-07-10 |
| Movie | Robot Overlords | Robin Smythe | 2015-01-29 |
| Series | Tut | Ay | 2015-07-19 |
| Movie | Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse | Drago (Voice) | 2015-02-24 |
| Movie | Unity | Narrator (voice) | 2015-08-12 |
| Movie | Knight of Cups | Storyteller (voice) | 2015-09-10 |
| Movie | The Walk | Papa Rudy | 2015-09-30 |
| Movie | Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | 2015-11-01 |
| Movie | Life | Jack Warner | 2015-09-09 |
| Movie | Walking with the Enemy | Regent Miklos Horthy | 2014-04-25 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Movie | War Story | Albert | 2014-01-19 |
| Movie | Learning to Drive | Darwan | 2014-08-21 |
| Movie | Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King | Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin | 2014-02-04 |
| Movie | Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Self | 2014-08-25 |
| Movie | Exodus: Gods and Kings | Nun | 2014-12-03 |
| Movie | Stonehearst Asylum | Silas Lamb | 2014-10-23 |
| Movie | Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Merenkahre | 2014-12-17 |
| Movie | The Boxtrolls | Snatcher (voice) | 2014-09-10 |
| Movie | A Birder's Guide to Everything | Lawrence Konrad | 2013-04-21 |
| Movie | Iron Man 3 | Trevor Slattery | 2013-04-18 |
| Movie | Muse of Fire | Self | 2013-09-26 |
| Movie | A Common Man | The Man | 2013-06-30 |
| Movie | The Physician | Ibn Sina (Avicenna) | 2013-12-25 |
| Movie | Ender's Game | Mazer Rackham | 2013-10-24 |
| Movie | The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo' | Self | 2012-02-28 |
| Movie | The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès | Self | 2012-02-28 |
| Movie | Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' | Self | 2012-02-28 |
| Movie | It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl | Narrator | 2012-08-10 |
| Movie | Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime | Self | 2012-02-28 |
| Movie | The Dictator | Tamir | 2012-05-15 |
| Movie | A Therapy | Therapist | 2012-05-22 |
| 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 | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Nizam | 2010-05-19 |
| Movie | Teen Patti | Perci Trachtenberg | 2010-02-26 |
| Movie | Shutter Island | Dr. Cawley | 2010-02-14 |
| Movie | Journey to Mecca | Narrator | 2009-01-07 |
| Movie | TransSiberian | Grinko | 2008-01-18 |
| Movie | Fifty Dead Men Walking | Fergus | 2008-09-10 |
| Movie | Elegy | David Kepesh | 2008-08-08 |
| Movie | War, Inc. | Walken / The Viceroy | 2008-04-28 |
| Movie | The Love Guru | Guru Tugginmypuddha | 2008-06-20 |
| Movie | The Wackness | Dr. Squires | 2008-07-03 |
| Movie | You Kill Me | Frank Falenczyk | 2007-02-09 |
| Movie | The Ten Commandments | Narrator (voice) | 2007-10-19 |
| Movie | The Last Legion | Ambrosinus | 2007-04-19 |
| Movie | I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal | Self | 2007-05-28 |
| Movie | Lucky Number Slevin | The Rabbi | 2006-02-24 |
| Movie | Mrs. Harris | Herman Tarnower | 2006-02-25 |
| Movie | The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel | Self | 2006-12-12 |
| Movie | Mais Bastidores de Hollywood | Self | 2006-11-01 |
| Movie | 50 Films to See Before You Die | Self | 2006-07-22 |
| Movie | Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2005-03-01 |
| Movie | A Sound of Thunder | Charles Hatton | 2005-05-15 |
| Movie | Oliver Twist | Fagin | 2005-09-23 |
| Movie | Peace Is Every Step | Narrator | 2005-12-13 |
| Movie | BloodRayne | Kagan | 2005-10-22 |
| Movie | Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust | Self | 2004-01-01 |
| Movie | Thunderbirds | The Hood | 2004-07-23 |
| Movie | Suspect Zero | Benjamin O'Ryan | 2004-08-27 |
| Movie | The Making of ‘Sneakers’ | Self | 2003-06-03 |
| Movie | Unlikely Heroes | Narrator | 2003-09-03 |
| Movie | House of Sand and Fog | Behrani | 2003-12-19 |
| Movie | Spooky House | The Great Zamboni | 2002-04-19 |
| Movie | Tuck Everlasting | Man in the Yellow Suit | 2002-10-11 |
| Movie | Sexy Beast | Don Logan | 2001-01-12 |
| Series | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | Otto Frank | 2001-05-20 |
| Movie | A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Specialist (voice) | 2001-06-29 |
| Movie | The Triumph of Love | Hermocrates | 2001-09-07 |
| Movie | Rules of Engagement | Ambassador Mourain | 2000-04-07 |
| Movie | What Planet Are You From? | Graydon | 2000-03-03 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Crime and Punishment | Magistrate Porfiry | 1998-10-11 |
| Movie | The Tale of Sweeney Todd | Sweeney Todd | 1998-08-30 |
| Movie | The Assignment | Amos | 1997-09-28 |
| Movie | Photographing Fairies | Rev. Templeton | 1997-09-19 |
| Movie | Weapons of Mass Distraction | Julian Messenger | 1997-05-17 |
| Movie | Twelfth Night | Feste | 1996-10-25 |
| Movie | Joseph | Potifar | 1995-04-10 |
| Movie | Species | Xavier Fitch | 1995-07-07 |
| Movie | Liberation | Narrator | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold | Self | 1994-02-01 |
| Movie | Death and the Maiden | Dr. Roberto Miranda | 1994-05-04 |
| 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 | Freddie As F.R.O.7. | Freddie (voice) | 1992-08-14 |
| Movie | Sneakers | Cosmo | 1992-09-09 |
| Movie | The War That Never Ends | Pericles | 1991-03-28 |
| Movie | Bugsy | Meyer Lansky | 1991-12-10 |
| Movie | Lenin: The Train | Lenin | 1990-04-30 |
| Movie | Cellini: A Violent Life | Governor | 1990-05-02 |
| Movie | The Children | Martin Boyne | 1990-05-18 |
| Movie | The Fifth Monkey | Cunda | 1990-10-05 |
| 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 | Without a Clue | Dr. John Watson | 1988-05-05 |
| Movie | Testimony | Dmitri Shostakovich | 1988-11-01 |
| Series | Lenin... The Train | Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin | 1988-11-30 |
| Movie | Pascali's Island | Basil Pascali | 1988-07-22 |
| Movie | Maurice | Lasker-Jones | 1987-09-18 |
| Movie | Turtle Diary | William Snow | 1985-12-06 |
| Movie | Harem | Selim | 1985-11-06 |
| Movie | Silas Marner | Silas Marner | 1985-12-30 |
| 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 | Dickens of London | Dr. John Elliotson | 1976-09-28 |
| Movie | Antony and Cleopatra | Thidias | 1975-01-04 |
| Series | Playhouse | Robert Cibrario | 1974-03-13 |
| Movie | Hard Labour | Naseem | 1973-03-12 |
| 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 |