Ben Kingsley

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Kingsley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK, 1943-12-31

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1972	Fear Is the Key	Royale	58
2	1982	Gandhi	Mahatma Gandhi	76
3	1985	To Be Hamlet	Self	0
4	1985	Harem	Selim	46
5	1987	Maurice	Lasker-Jones	76
6	1988	Without a Clue	Dr. John Watson	66
7	1989	Slipstream	Avatar	45
8	1990	Lenin: The Train	Lenin	62
9	1991	Bugsy	Meyer Lansky	64
10	1992	Sneakers	Cosmo	69
11	1993	Dave	Vice-President Nance	67
12	1993	Searching for Bobby Fischer	Bruce Pandolfini	71
13	1993	Schindler's List	Itzhak Stern	86
14	1994	Death and the Maiden	Dr. Roberto Miranda	71
15	1995	Joseph	Potifar	82
16	1995	Species	Xavier Fitch	60
17	1999	Alice in Wonderland	Major Caterpillar	63
18	1999	The Confession	Harry Fertig	57
19	2000	What Planet Are You From?	Graydon	55
20	2000	Rules of Engagement	Ambassador Mourain	62
21	2000	Sexy Beast	Don Logan	70
22	2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Specialist (voice)	70
23	2001	The Triumph of Love	Hermocrates	62
24	2002	Tuck Everlasting	Man in the Yellow Suit	66
25	2003	House of Sand and Fog	Behrani	72
26	2004	Suspect Zero	Benjamin O'Ryan	56
27	2005	A Sound of Thunder	Charles Hatton	48
28	2005	Oliver Twist	Fagin	67
29	2006	Lucky Number Slevin	The Rabbi	75
30	2006	C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia	Self	62
31	2007	You Kill Me	Frank Falenczyk	61
32	2007	The Last Legion	Ambrosinus	56
33	2007	The Ten Commandments	Narrator (voice)	56
34	2008	TransSiberian	Grinko	64
35	2008	War, Inc.	Walken / The Viceroy	55
36	2008	The Love Guru	Guru Tugginmypuddha	41
37	2008	The Wackness	Dr. Squires	64
38	2008	Elegy	David Kepesh	63
39	2010	Shutter Island	Dr. Cawley	82
40	2010	Teen Patti	Perci Trachtenberg	41
41	2010	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time	Nizam	63
42		Desert Warrior	Emperor Kisra	0
43	1975	Antony and Cleopatra	Thidias	70
44	1979	Every Good Boy Deserves Favour	Ivanov	0
45	1989	Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story	Simon Wiesenthal	66
46	1990	The Fifth Monkey	Cunda	90
47	1994	Liberation	Narrator	80
48	1997	Weapons of Mass Distraction	Julian Messenger	51
49	1997	Photographing Fairies	Rev. Templeton	57
50	1998	Crime and Punishment	Magistrate Porfiry	66
51	2003	The Making of ‘Sneakers’	Self	0
52	2003	The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough		0
53	2003	Unlikely Heroes	Narrator	73
54	2005	Nos Bastidores de Hollywood	Self	0
55	2005	Peace Is Every Step	Narrator	0
56	2006	Mais Bastidores de Hollywood	Self	0
57	2009	Journey to Mecca	Narrator	65
58	2010	Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny	Narrator	64
59	2013	A Birder's Guide to Everything	Lawrence Konrad	60
60	2013	Muse of Fire	Self	65
61	2014	War Story	Albert	44
62	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
63	2014	Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King	Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin	68
64	2014	Walking with the Enemy	Regent Miklos Horthy	64
65	2014	Learning to Drive	Darwan	62
66	2014	Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film	Self	48
67	2014	The Boxtrolls	Archibald Snatcher (voice)	67
68	2014	Robot Overlords	Robin Smythe	48
69	2014	Stonehearst Asylum	Silas Lamb	69
70	2014	Exodus: Gods and Kings	Nun	59
71	2015	Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse	Drago (Voice)	54
72	2015	Self/less	Damian	64
73	2015	Unity	Narrator (voice)	75
74	2015	Life	Jack Warner	60
75	2015	The Walk	Papa Rudy	70
76	2015	Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC	Self (archive footage)	0
77	2016	The Jungle Book	Bagheera (voice)	69
78	2016	Collide	Geran	55
79	2022	Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry	Self	100
80	2023	Poison	Dr. Ganderbai	69
81	2024	The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More	Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)	75
82	2025	William Tell	King Albrecht	58
83		Deep Water		0
84		The Thursday Murder Club	Ibrahim Arif	0
85	1973	Hard Labour	Naseem	65
86	1982	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Frank Ford	80
87	1983	Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi	Self	0
88	1983	Betrayal	Robert	60
89	1983	Schindler	Self - Narrator (2019) (voice)	81
90	1984	Camille	Duval	56
91	1985	Turtle Diary	William Snow	66
92	1985	Silas Marner	Silas Marner	56
93	1988	Pascali's Island	Basil Pascali	64
94	1988	Testimony	Dmitri Shostakovich	57
95	1990	Romeo.Juliet	Father Capulet (voice)	0
96	1990	Cellini: A Violent Life	Governatore	60
97	1990	The Children	Martin Boyne	52
98	1991	The War That Never Ends	Pericles	0
99	1991	Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin	Narrator (voice)	0
100	1991	Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver	Narrator (voice)	0
101	1991	Necessary Love		92
102	1992	Freddie as F.R.O.7.	Freddie (voice)	51
103	1994	Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold	Self	0
104	1996	Twelfth Night	Feste	69
105	1997	The Assignment	Amos	64
106	1998	The Tale of Sweeney Todd	Sweeney Todd	57
107	1999	Parting Shots	Renzo Locatelli	61
108	1999	A Force More Powerful	Narator	90
109	2001	Islam: Empire of Faith	Self - Narrator	84
110	2001	The Making of Sexy Beast	Self	0
111	2002	Spooky House	The Great Zamboni	60
112	2003	Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land	Narrator	0
113	2004	Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust	Self	65
114	2004	Thunderbirds	The Hood	50
115	2004	No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds	Self	0
116	2005	BloodRayne	Kagan	41
117	2006	The Life and Faith of CS Lewis		0
118	2006	Mrs. Harris	Herman Tarnower	60
119	2006	50 Films to See Before You Die	Self	85
120	2006	The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel	Self	0
121	2007	I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal		77
122	2008	Fifty Dead Men Walking	Fergus	63
123	2010	1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets	Al-Jazari / Librarian	55
124	2010	Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse	Self	80
125	2010	The Sands of Time: The Making of 'Prince of Persia'	Self	0
126	2010	Aral, the Lost Sea		27
127	2011	The Desert of Forbidden Art	Voice	47
128	2011	Hugo	Georges Méliès	72
129	2012	The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'	Self	60
130	2012	Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'	Self	60
131	2012	The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès	Self	0
132	2012	Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime	Self	60
133	2012	The Dictator	Tamir	62
134	2012	A Therapy	Therapist	53
135	2012	Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard	Self	0
136	2012	It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl	Narrator	0
137	2013	Iron Man 3	Trevor Slattery	69
138	2013	A Common Man	The Man	57
139	2013	Ender's Game	Mazer Rackham	66
140	2013	The Physician	Ibn Sina (Avicenna)	73
141	2014	Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb	Merenkahre	62
142	2015	Knight of Cups	Storyteller (voice)	57
143	2016	Of Dogs and Men	The Caller (voice)	0
144	2017	Security	Charlie	63
145	2017	The Ottoman Lieutenant	Woodruff	61
146	2017	War Machine	President Karzai	56
147	2017	Spielberg	Self	76
148	2017	An Ordinary Man	The General	63
149	2018	Backstabbing for Beginners	Pasha	62
150	2018	Operation Finale	Adolf Eichmann	67
151	2018	Intrigo: Death of an Author	Henderson	54
152	2018	Who Killed British Cinema?	Self	50
153	2018	Inside The Operation	Self	0
154	2018	Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché	Self	73
155	2019	Spider in the Web	Adereth	50
156	2019	The Red Sea Diving Resort	Ethan Levin	68
157	2019	Night Hunter	Cooper	66
158	2019	The Medicine Buddha	Narration	60
159	2021	Locked Down	Malcolm	52
160	2021	Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings	Trevor Slattery	75
161	2022	Dalíland	Dalí	62
162	2023	Jules	Milton Robinson	72
163	2023	The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar	Imdad Khan / Croupier	72
164	2024	The Killer's Game	Zvi Rabinowitz	64
165	2025	The King of Kings	High Priest Caiaphas (voice)	0
166		Mary	King Herod	0
167		The Way of the Wind		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	68
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Audience Member	68
3	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Winner	68
4	1948	Bambi Awards	Self	90
5	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Duval	87
6	1953	The Oscars	Self - Presenter	69
7	1965	Orlando	Peter Batterby	0
8	1966	Goldene Kamera Verleihung	Self	35
9	1972	The Adventurer	Pierre	55
10	1972	Pebble Mill at One		0
11	1973	Wessex Tales		60
12	1974	Playhouse	Robert Cibrario	70
13	1974	Playhouse	Ivanov	70
14	1975	The Love School	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	0
15	1976	Dickens Of London	Dr. John Elliotson	65
16	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare		52
17	1981	Wetten, dass..?	Self	53
18	1981	Entertainment Tonight	Self	41
19	1984	Playing Shakespeare		100
20	1984	Oxbridge Blues	Geoff Craven	50
21	1987	Seitenblicke	Self	0
22	1988	The Secret of the Sahara	Sholomon	61
23	1988	Lenin... The Train	Lenin	60
24	1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self	74
25	1995	Joseph	Potiphar	0
26	1996	Moses	Moses	80
27	1998	Religions of the World	Narrator	0
28	1999	The Sopranos	Ben Kingsley	87
29	1999	Rove	Self	80
30	1999	CNN Millennium	Narrator	0
31	2001	Islam: Empire of Faith	Narrator	0
32	2001	Anne Frank: The Whole Story	Otto Frank	74
33	2004	Religion of the World	Narrator	0
34	2005	The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson	Self	68
35	2006	The One Show	Self	46
36	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	54
37	2014	Garfunkel and Oates	Ben Kingsley	69
38	2015	Lip Sync Battle	Self	64
39	2015	Tut	Ay	72
40	2018	All or Nothing: Manchester City	Narrator (voice)	71
41	2018	Watership Down	General Woundwort (voice)	68
42	2019	Perpetual Grace LTD	Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown	73
43	2021	Marvel Studios Legends	Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)	74
44	2021	Marvel Studios Assembled	Self	72
45		Wonder Man	Trevor Slattery	0