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Ben Kingsley

Sir Ben Kingsley is an English actor. Throughout his career spanning over five decades, he has garnered numerous awards and nominations, including a Grammy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA Award, and an Academy Award from four nominations.

Aliases
  • Sir Ben Kingsley
  • Krishna Pandit Bhanji
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Filmography

Shutter Island

2010
as Dr. John Cawley

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

2021
as Trevor Slattery

Schindler's List

1993
as Itzhak Stern

Iron Man 3

2013
as Trevor Slattery

The Jungle Book

2016
as Bagheera (voice)

The Dictator

2012
as Tamir

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

2010
as Nizam

Hugo

2011
as Georges Méliès

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

2001
as Specialist (voice)

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

2023
as Imdad Khan

Ender's Game

2013
as Mazer Rackham

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

2014
as Merenkahre

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

2014
as Trevor Slattery

Self/less

2015
as Damian

The Walk

2015
as Papa Rudy

Lucky Number Slevin

2006
as The Rabbi

Exodus: Gods and Kings

2014
as Nun

The Red Sea Diving Resort

2019
as Ethan Levin

Species

1995
as Xavier Fitch

Poison

2023
as Dr. Ganderbai

Night Hunter

2018
as Cooper

The Boxtrolls

2014
as Archibald Snatcher (voice)

Dangerous

2021

Security

2017
as Charlie

Oliver Twist

2005
as Fagin

Tuck Everlasting

2002
as Man in the Yellow Suit

Locked Down

2021

Maurice

1987
as Lasker-Jones

Operation Finale

2018
as Adolf Eichmann

Pascali's Island

1988
as Basil Pascali

The Love Guru

2008
as Guru Tugginmypuddha

Without a Clue

1988
as Dr. John Watson

Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse

2015
as Drago (Voice)

Gandhi

1982
as Mahatma Gandhi

The Killer's Game

2024
as Zvi Rabinowitz

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

2014
as Himself

War, Inc.

2008
as Walken / The Viceroy

Betrayal

1983
as Robert

Alice in Wonderland

1999
as Major Caterpillar

Parting Shots

1999
as Renzo Locatelli

Jules

2023
as Milton

Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny

2010
as Narrator

Stonehearst Asylum

2014
as Silas Lamb

The Children

1990
as Martin Boyne

A Birder's Guide to Everything

2013
as Lawrence Konrad

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014
as Himself - Interviewee

War Story

2014
as Albert

The Tale of Sweeney Todd

1998
as Sweeney Todd

Peace Is Every Step

1998
as Narrator

An Ordinary Man

2017
as The General

Unlikely Heroes

2003
as Narrator

Dave

1993
as Vice-President Nance

Rules of Engagement

2000
as Ambassador Mourain

Spielberg

2017
as Himself

Journey to Mecca

2009
as Narrator

Backstabbing for Beginners

2018
as Pasha

Sexy Beast

2000
as Don Logan

What Planet Are You From?

2000
as Graydon

It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl

2012
as Narrator

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

2004

Life

2015
as Jack Warner

Liberation

1994
as Narrator

The Ottoman Lieutenant

2017
as Woodruff

William Tell

2024

Schindler's List: 25 Years Later

2018
as Ben Kingsley

Dalíland

2023
as Salvador Dali

Twelfth Night

1996
as Feste

Behind the Scenes of 'House of Sand and Fog'

2004
as Ben Kingsley

Transsiberian

2008
as Grinko

Spooky House

2002
as The Great Zamboni

Robot Overlords

2015
as Robin Smythe

Photographing Fairies

1997
as Rev. Templeton

You Kill Me

2007
as Frank Falenczyk

Suspect Zero

2004
as Benjamin O'Ryan

The Physician

2013
as Ibn Sina

Testimony

1988
as Dimitri Shostakovich

Spider in the Web

2019
as Adereth

Fifty Dead Men Walking

2008
as Fergus

The Triumph of Love

2001
as Hermocrates

1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets

2010
as Al-Jazari / Librarian

Learning to Drive

2014
as Darwan

Walking with the Enemy

2014

Necessary Love

1991

Crime and Punishment

1998
as Porfiry

Aral. El mar perdido

2010

The Assignment

1997
as Amos

War Machine

2017
as President Karzai

Searching for Bobby Fischer

1993
as Bruce Pandolfini

The King of Kings

2025
as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)

Sam Spiegel: Conquering Hollywood

2018
as Ben Kingsley

Freddie as F.R.O.7.

1992
as Freddie (voice)

BloodRayne

2005
as Kagan

Of Dogs and Men

as The Caller (voice)

Sneakers

1992
as Cosmo

A Force More Powerful

1999
as Narator

Lenin: The Train

1988
as Lenin

The Thursday Murder Club

as Ibrahim Arif

Death and the Maiden

1994
as Dr. Roberto Miranda

A Sound of Thunder

2005
as Charles Hatton

Harem

1985
as Selim

The Work of Director Jonathan Glazer

2005
as Ben Kingsley

The Ten Commandments

2007
as Narrator (voice)

Romeo.Juliet

1990
as Father Capulet

A Therapy

2012
as Therapist

Mrs. Harris

2006
as Herman Tarnower

Collide

2016
as Geran

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

1989
as Simon Wiesenthal

Weapons of Mass Distraction

1997
as Julian Messenger

The Confession

1999
as Harry Fertig

Desert Warrior

as Emperor Kisra

House of Sand and Fog

2003
as Behrani

China's Stolen Children

2007
as Narrator

Silas Marner

1985
as Silas Marner

Thunderbirds

2004
as The Hood

A Common Man

2013
as The Man

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard

2012
as Ben Kingsley

Unity

2015
as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Muse of Fire

2013
as Himself

Bugsy

1991
as Meyer Lansky

The Wackness

2008
as Dr. Squires

Turtle Diary

1985
as William Snow

O Quinto Macaco

1990
as Cunda

The Way of the Wind

2024

Slipstream

1989
as Avatar

Camille

1984
as Duval

Antony and Cleopatra

1975
as Thidias

Teen Patti

2010
as Perci Trachtenberg

The Last Legion

2007
as Ambrosinus

Knight of Cups

2015
as (voice)

Joseph

1995
as Potifar

Intrigo: Death of an Author

2018
as Henderson

The Desert of Forbidden Art

2011
as Igor Savitsky (voice)

Fear Is the Key

1972
as Royale

Elegy

2008
as David Kepesh

Una vita scellerata

1990
as Governor