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:
- 154
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Fortitude
- Latest Project:
- Movie Deep Water 2026-04-30
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Way of the Wind | 2026 | |
| Movie | Deep Water | 2026-04-30 | |
| Movie | Fortitude | 2026 | |
| Movie | The Thursday Murder Club | Ibrahim | 2025-08-22 |
| Movie | Desert Warrior | Emperor Kisra | 2025-09-28 |
| Movie | William Tell | King Albrecht | 2025-01-17 |
| Movie | The Killer's Game | Zvi Rabinowitz | 2024-09-12 |
| Movie | Poison | Dr. Ganderbai | 2023-09-29 |
| Movie | Jules | Milton Robinson | 2023-08-10 |
| 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 |
| Movie | The Red Sea Diving Resort | Ethan Levin | 2019-07-28 |
| Movie | Night Hunter | Cooper | 2019-08-08 |
| Movie | Spider in the Web | Adereth | 2019-04-20 |
| Series | Perpetual Grace LTD | Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown | 2019-06-02 |
| Series | All or Nothing: Manchester City | Narrator (voice) | 2018-08-17 |
| Movie | Backstabbing for Beginners | Pasha | 2018-01-18 |
| Movie | Operation Finale | Adolf Eichmann | 2018-08-29 |
| Movie | Who Killed British Cinema? | Self | 2018-11-26 |
| Movie | Inside the Operation | Self | 2018-12-04 |
| Movie | Intrigo: Death of an Author | Henderson | 2018-10-11 |
| Movie | Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché | Self | 2018-12-07 |
| Series | Watership Down | General Woundwort (voice) | 2018-12-22 |
| 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 | Self | 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 |
| Movie | Self/less | Damian | 2015-07-10 |
| Series | Tut | Ay | 2015-07-19 |
| Movie | Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse | Drago (Voice) | 2015-02-24 |
| Movie | Robot Overlords | Robin Smythe | 2015-01-29 |
| Movie | The Walk | Papa Rudy | 2015-09-30 |
| Movie | Unity | Narrator (voice) | 2015-08-12 |
| Movie | Knight of Cups | Storyteller (voice) | 2015-09-10 |
| Movie | Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | 2015-11-01 |
| Movie | Life | Jack Warner | 2015-09-09 |
| Movie | Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King | Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin | 2014-02-04 |
| Movie | War Story | Albert | 2014-01-19 |
| Movie | Walking with the Enemy | Regent Miklos Horthy | 2014-04-25 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Movie | Stonehearst Asylum | Silas Lamb | 2014-10-23 |
| Movie | Learning to Drive | Darwan | 2014-08-21 |
| Movie | Exodus: Gods and Kings | Nun | 2014-12-03 |
| Movie | The Boxtrolls | Snatcher (voice) | 2014-09-10 |
| Movie | Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Self | 2014-08-25 |
| Movie | Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Merenkahre | 2014-12-17 |
| Movie | Iron Man 3 | Trevor Slattery | 2013-04-18 |
| Movie | A Birder's Guide to Everything | Lawrence Konrad | 2013-04-21 |
| 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 | Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' | Self | 2012-02-28 |
| Movie | The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo' | Self | 2012-02-28 |
| Movie | A Therapy | Therapist | 2012-05-22 |
| Movie | It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl | Narrator | 2012-08-10 |
| Movie | The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès | Self | 2012-02-28 |
| Movie | Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime | Self | 2012-02-28 |
| Movie | The Dictator | Tamir | 2012-05-15 |
| Movie | The Desert of Forbidden Art | Voice | 2011-03-18 |
| Movie | Hugo | Georges Méliès | 2011-11-22 |
| 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 | Elegy | David Kepesh | 2008-08-08 |
| Movie | Fifty Dead Men Walking | Fergus | 2008-09-10 |
| Movie | The Wackness | Dr. Squires | 2008-07-03 |
| Movie | TransSiberian | Grinko | 2008-01-18 |
| Movie | War, Inc. | Walken / The Viceroy | 2008-04-28 |
| Movie | The Love Guru | Guru Tugginmypuddha | 2008-06-20 |
| Movie | You Kill Me | Frank Falenczyk | 2007-02-09 |
| Movie | I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal | Self | 2007-05-28 |
| Movie | The Last Legion | Ambrosinus | 2007-04-19 |
| Movie | The Ten Commandments | Narrator (voice) | 2007-10-19 |
| Movie | Lucky Number Slevin | The Rabbi | 2006-02-24 |
| Movie | The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel | Self | 2006-12-12 |
| 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 |
| Movie | A Sound of Thunder | Charles Hatton | 2005-05-15 |
| Movie | Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 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 | Thunderbirds | The Hood | 2004-07-23 |
| Movie | Suspect Zero | Benjamin O'Ryan | 2004-08-27 |
| Movie | Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust | Self | 2004-01-01 |
| Movie | Unlikely Heroes | Narrator | 2003-09-03 |
| Movie | House of Sand and Fog | Behrani | 2003-12-19 |
| 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 | A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Specialist (voice) | 2001-06-29 |
| Movie | The Triumph of Love | Hermocrates | 2001-09-07 |
| Movie | What Planet Are You From? | Graydon | 2000-03-03 |
| Movie | Rules of Engagement | Ambassador Mourain | 2000-04-07 |
| Movie | Alice in Wonderland | Major Caterpillar | 1999-02-28 |
| Movie | Parting Shots | Renzo Locatelli | 1999-05-14 |
| Movie | The Confession | Harry Fertig | 1999-03-26 |
| Movie | The Tale of Sweeney Todd | Sweeney Todd | 1998-08-30 |
| Movie | Crime and Punishment | Magistrate Porfiry | 1998-10-11 |
| Movie | Photographing Fairies | Rev. Templeton | 1997-09-19 |
| Movie | Weapons of Mass Distraction | Julian Messenger | 1997-05-17 |
| Movie | The Assignment | Amos | 1997-09-28 |
| 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 | Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold | Self | 1994-02-01 |
| Movie | Liberation | Narrator | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | Schindler's List | Itzhak Stern | 1993-12-15 |
| Movie | Dave | Vice-President Nance | 1993-05-07 |
| Movie | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Bruce Pandolfini | 1993-08-13 |
| Movie | Sneakers | Cosmo | 1992-09-09 |
| Movie | Freddie As F.R.O.7. | Freddie (voice) | 1992-08-14 |
| 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 | The Fifth Monkey | Cunda | 1990-10-05 |
| Movie | The Children | Martin Boyne | 1990-05-18 |
| Movie | Cellini: A Violent Life | Governor | 1990-05-02 |
| Movie | Slipstream | Avatar | 1989-06-22 |
| Movie | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Simon Wiesenthal | 1989-04-22 |
| Series | Lenin... The Train | Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin | 1988-11-30 |
| Movie | Testimony | Dmitri Shostakovich | 1988-11-01 |
| Series | The Secret of the Sahara | Sholomon | 1988-01-03 |
| 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 | Harem | Selim | 1985-11-06 |
| Movie | Silas Marner | Silas Marner | 1985-12-30 |
| Series | Playing Shakespeare | 1984-07-29 | |
| Movie | Camille | Duval | 1984-12-11 |
| Movie | Schindler | Self - Narrator (2019) (voice) | 1983-10-01 |
| Movie | Betrayal | Robert | 1983-02-19 |
| Movie | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Frank Ford | 1982-12-28 |
| Movie | Gandhi | Mahatma Gandhi | 1982-12-01 |
| 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 | Pardon the Expression | Roy | 1965-06-02 |
| Series | Orlando | Peter Batterby | 1965-04-13 |