Ben Kingsley

ActorProducer Dec 31 (age 82) Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK 1944–2027 (83 year career)

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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 Br…

Known For

Film

Schindler's List

Itzhak Stern

Film

Shutter Island

Dr. Cawley

Film

Iron Man 3

Trevor Slattery

Film

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Trevor Slattery

Film

Hugo

Georges Méliès

Film

Lucky Number Slevin

The Rabbi

Film

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Specialist (voice)

Film

The Jungle Book

Bagheera (voice)

Filmography

Acting (216)

Movies (173)

Sonic the Hedgehog 4

2027 Upcoming

Mar 11

Deep Water

2026 Upcoming

May 1

Young Washington

2026 Upcoming

as Robert Dinwiddie

Jul 3

Desert Warrior

2026 Upcoming

as Emperor Kisra

Apr 24

The King of Kings

2025

as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)

8.3

The Thursday Murder Club

as Ibrahim

William Tell

as King Albrecht

The Killer's Game

as Zvi Rabinowitz

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

2024

as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)

7.5

Poison

2023

as Dr. Ganderbai

6.9

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

2023

as Imdad Khan / Croupier

Jules

as Milton Robinson

Dalíland

as Dalí

Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry

2022

as Self

10.0

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

as Trevor Slattery

Locked Down

as Malcolm

Night Hunter

as Cooper

The Red Sea Diving Resort

as Ethan Levin

Spider in the Web

as Adereth

The Medicine Buddha

as Narrator (voice)

Who Killed British Cinema?

as Self

Operation Finale

as Adolf Eichmann

Backstabbing for Beginners

2018

as Pasha

6.2

Schindler's List: 25 Years Later

2018

as Self

An Oral History of: Schindler's List

2018

as Self (archive footage)

Intrigo: Death of an Author

2018

as Henderson

5.3

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

2018

as Self

7.2

Inside the Operation

2018

as Self

War Machine

as President Karzai

Spielberg

as Self

Security

as Charlie

The Ottoman Lieutenant

as Woodruff

An Ordinary Man

as The General

The Jungle Book

as Bagheera (voice)

Collide

as Geran

Of Dogs and Men

as The Caller (voice)

Self/less

as Damian

The Walk

as Papa Rudy

Knight of Cups

as Storyteller (voice)

5.7

Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse

as Drago (Voice)

Robot Overlords

as Robin Smythe

Unity

as Narrator (voice)

Life

as Jack Warner

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

2015

as Self (archive footage)

Exodus: Gods and Kings

2014

as Nun

5.9

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

as Merenkahre

The Boxtrolls

as Snatcher (voice)

Stonehearst Asylum

as Silas Lamb

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

2014

as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin

6.7

Walking with the Enemy

2014

as Regent Miklos Horthy

Learning to Drive

as Darwan

War Story

as Albert

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

as Self

Iron Man 3

as Trevor Slattery

Ender's Game

as Mazer Rackham

The Physician

as Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

7.3

A Common Man

2013

as The Man

5.7

A Birder's Guide to Everything

as Lawrence Konrad

Muse of Fire

as Self

The Dictator

as Tamir

A Therapy

as Therapist

The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès

2012

as Self

Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime

2012

as Self

6.0

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'

2012

as Self

6.0

It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl

2012

as Narrator

The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'

2012

as Self

6.0

A Therapy

2012

as Psychiatrist

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard

2012

as Self

Hugo

2011

as Georges Méliès

7.2

The Desert of Forbidden Art

as Voice

Shutter Island

as Dr. Cawley

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

2010

as Nizam

6.3

Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny

2010

as Narrator

6.4

Teen Patti

2010

as Perci Trachtenberg

3.8

Aral, the Lost Sea

2010

2.7

1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets

2010

as Al-Jazari / Librarian

Journey to Mecca

as Narrator

The Love Guru

as Guru Tugginmypuddha

TransSiberian

as Grinko

Elegy

as David Kepesh

War, Inc.

as Walken / The Viceroy

5.5

The Wackness

2008

as Dr. Squires

6.4

Fifty Dead Men Walking

as Fergus

The Last Legion

as Ambrosinus

You Kill Me

as Frank Falenczyk

The Ten Commandments

as Narrator (voice)

I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal

as Self

Lucky Number Slevin

as The Rabbi

C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia

2006

as Self

7.5

Mais Bastidores de Hollywood

2006

as Self

Mrs. Harris

2006

as Herman Tarnower

5.7

50 Films to See Before You Die

2006

as Self

8.5

The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel

2006

as Self

The Life and Faith of CS Lewis

Oliver Twist

as Fagin

A Sound of Thunder

as Charles Hatton

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

2005

as Self (archive footage)

BloodRayne

as Kagan

Peace Is Every Step

as Narrator

Suspect Zero

as Benjamin O'Ryan

Thunderbirds

as The Hood

No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds

2004

as Self

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

2004

as Self

6.5

House of Sand and Fog

2003

as Behrani

7.2

Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land

2003

as Narrator

Unlikely Heroes

2003

as Narrator

7.3

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

2003

as Self

5.0

The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

2003

Tuck Everlasting

2002

as Man in the Yellow Suit

6.7

Spooky House

2002

as The Great Zamboni

5.9

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

2001

as Specialist (voice)

The Triumph of Love

as Hermocrates

Sexy Beast

as Don Logan

Islam: Empire of Faith

2001

as Self - Narrator

8.4

The Making of Sexy Beast

2001

as Self

Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi"

2001

as Self - Interviewee

Rules of Engagement

2000

as Ambassador Mourain

6.3

What Planet Are You From?

as Graydon

The Confession

as Harry Fertig

Alice in Wonderland

as Major Caterpillar

Parting Shots

as Renzo Locatelli

A Force More Powerful

1999

as Narator

9.0

The Tale of Sweeney Todd

1998

as Sweeney Todd

5.5

Crime and Punishment

1998

as Magistrate Porfiry

6.5

Photographing Fairies

as Rev. Templeton

The Assignment

as Amos

Weapons of Mass Distraction

as Julian Messenger

Twelfth Night

as Feste

Species

as Xavier Fitch

Joseph

as Potifar

Moses

as Moses

Death and the Maiden

as Dr. Roberto Miranda

7.1

Liberation

1994

as Narrator

7.8

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

1994

as Self

Schindler's List

1993

as Itzhak Stern

8.6

Dave

1993

as Vice-President Nance

6.6

Searching for Bobby Fischer

as Bruce Pandolfini

Sneakers

as Cosmo

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

as Freddie (voice)

Bugsy

as Meyer Lansky

The War That Never Ends

1991

as Pericles

1.0

Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin

1991

as Narrator (voice)

Necessary Love

1991

9.2

Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver

1991

as Narrator (voice)

The Fifth Monkey

1990

as Cunda

9.0

Romeo.Juliet

1990

as Father Capulet (voice)

5.0

Cellini: A Violent Life

as Governor

The Children

as Martin Boyne

The Making of Slipstream

1989

Slipstream

1989

as Avatar

4.3

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

as Simon Wiesenthal

Lenin: The Train

as Lenin

Without a Clue

as Dr. John Watson

Testimony

as Dmitri Shostakovich

Pascali's Island

as Basil Pascali

Maurice

as Lasker-Jones

Silas Marner

as Silas Marner

To Be Hamlet

as Self

Harem

as Selim

Turtle Diary

as William Snow

Camille

as Duval

Betrayal

as Robert

Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi

1983

as Self

Schindler

1983

as Self - Narrator (2019) (voice)

8.0

Gandhi

1982

as Mahatma Gandhi

7.6

The Merry Wives of Windsor

1982

as Frank Ford

8.0

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

1979

as Ivanov

Antony and Cleopatra

as Thidias

Hard Labour

as Naseem

Fear Is the Key

as Royale

The Way of the Wind

Fortitude

Mary

as King Herod

Television (43)

Wonder Man

2026

as Trevor Slattery

7.1

Marvel Studios Legends

2021

as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)

7.4

Marvel Studios Assembled

2021

as Self

7.2

Perpetual Grace LTD

2019

as Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown

7.4

Watership Down

2018

as General Woundwort (voice)

6.9

All or Nothing: Manchester City

as Narrator (voice)

Lip Sync Battle

as Self

Tut

as Ay

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self - Guest

Garfunkel and Oates

as Ben Kingsley

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

2005

as Self - Guest

6.7

Religion of the World

2004

as Narrator

Anne Frank: The Whole Story

2001

as Otto Frank

7.4

Islam: Empire of Faith

2001

as Narrator

The Sopranos

as Ben Kingsley

Rove

as Self

CNN Millennium

as Narrator

Religions of the World

1998

as Narrator

HARDtalk

Moses

as Moses

Joseph

as Potiphar

Inside the Actors Studio

1994

as Self

7.5

The Secret of the Sahara

1988

as Sholomon

6.1

Lenin... The Train

1988

as Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin

Dispatches

Seitenblicke

as Self

Goldene Kamera

as Self

Oxbridge Blues

as Geoff Craven

Playing Shakespeare

Wetten, dass..?

as Self

Entertainment Tonight

1981

as Self

4.1

Dickens of London

1976

as Dr. John Elliotson

6.5

The Love School

1975

as Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Playhouse

as Ivanov

Wessex Tales

Pebble Mill at One

The Adventurer

as Pierre

Jackanory

World in Action

as Re-enactment

The Oscars

as Self - Presenter

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Duval

Bambi

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Dalíland

2022

Executive Producer

6.0