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:
- 153
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Way of the Wind
- Latest Project:
- Movie Deep Water 2026-04-30
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Deep Water | 2026-04-30 | |
| Movie | The Way of the Wind | 2026 | |
| Movie | William Tell | King Albrecht | 2025-01-17 |
| Movie | The Thursday Murder Club | Ibrahim | 2025-08-22 |
| Movie | Desert Warrior | Emperor Kisra | 2025-09-28 |
| 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 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Trevor Slattery | 2021-09-01 |
| Movie | Locked Down | Malcolm | 2021-02-25 |
| 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 |
| Movie | The Red Sea Diving Resort | Ethan Levin | 2019-07-28 |
| Movie | Operation Finale | Adolf Eichmann | 2018-08-29 |
| Movie | Intrigo: Death of an Author | Henderson | 2018-10-11 |
| Series | All or Nothing: Manchester City | Narrator (voice) | 2018-08-17 |
| Movie | Backstabbing for Beginners | Pasha | 2018-01-18 |
| Movie | Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché | Self | 2018-12-07 |
| Movie | Who Killed British Cinema? | Self | 2018-11-26 |
| Series | Watership Down | General Woundwort (voice) | 2018-12-22 |
| Movie | Inside the Operation | Self | 2018-12-04 |
| Movie | The Ottoman Lieutenant | Woodruff | 2017-03-28 |
| Movie | Security | Charlie | 2017-03-04 |
| Movie | Spielberg | Self | 2017-10-05 |
| Movie | An Ordinary Man | The General | 2017-10-09 |
| 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 |
| Series | Tut | Ay | 2015-07-19 |
| Movie | Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse | Drago (Voice) | 2015-02-24 |
| Movie | The Walk | Papa Rudy | 2015-09-30 |
| Movie | Unity | Narrator (voice) | 2015-08-12 |
| Movie | Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | 2015-11-01 |
| Movie | Knight of Cups | Storyteller (voice) | 2015-09-10 |
| Movie | Life | Jack Warner | 2015-09-09 |
| Movie | Walking with the Enemy | Regent Miklos Horthy | 2014-04-25 |
| Movie | Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King | Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin | 2014-02-04 |
| Movie | Learning to Drive | Darwan | 2014-08-21 |
| Movie | War Story | Albert | 2014-01-19 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Movie | Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Merenkahre | 2014-12-17 |
| Movie | Exodus: Gods and Kings | Nun | 2014-12-03 |
| Movie | Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Self | 2014-08-25 |
| Movie | Stonehearst Asylum | Silas Lamb | 2014-10-23 |
| Movie | The Boxtrolls | Snatcher (voice) | 2014-09-10 |
| Movie | Robot Overlords | Robin Smythe | 2014-10-18 |
| 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 | The Physician | Ibn Sina (Avicenna) | 2013-12-25 |
| Movie | A Common Man | The Man | 2013-06-30 |
| Movie | Ender's Game | Mazer Rackham | 2013-10-24 |
| Movie | The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès | Self | 2012-02-28 |
| 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 | Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime | Self | 2012-02-28 |
| Movie | A Therapy | Therapist | 2012-05-22 |
| Movie | The Dictator | Tamir | 2012-05-15 |
| Movie | It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl | Narrator | 2012-08-10 |
| Movie | Hugo | Georges Méliès | 2011-11-22 |
| Movie | The Desert of Forbidden Art | Voice | 2011-03-18 |
| Movie | Shutter Island | Dr. Cawley | 2010-02-14 |
| Movie | 1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets | Al-Jazari / Librarian | 2010-01-21 |
| Movie | Teen Patti | Perci Trachtenberg | 2010-02-26 |
| Movie | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Nizam | 2010-05-19 |
| Movie | Journey to Mecca | Narrator | 2009-01-07 |
| Movie | TransSiberian | Grinko | 2008-01-18 |
| Movie | War, Inc. | Walken / The Viceroy | 2008-04-28 |
| Movie | The Wackness | Dr. Squires | 2008-07-03 |
| Movie | Fifty Dead Men Walking | Fergus | 2008-09-10 |
| Movie | Elegy | David Kepesh | 2008-08-08 |
| 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 Ten Commandments | Narrator (voice) | 2007-10-19 |
| Movie | The Last Legion | Ambrosinus | 2007-04-19 |
| 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 | House of Sand and Fog | Behrani | 2003-12-19 |
| Movie | Unlikely Heroes | Narrator | 2003-09-03 |
| Movie | Spooky House | The Great Zamboni | 2002-04-19 |
| Movie | Tuck Everlasting | Man in the Yellow Suit | 2002-10-11 |
| Movie | The Triumph of Love | Hermocrates | 2001-09-07 |
| 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 | 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 | The Tale of Sweeney Todd | Sweeney Todd | 1998-08-30 |
| Movie | Crime and Punishment | Magistrate Porfiry | 1998-10-11 |
| Movie | Weapons of Mass Distraction | Julian Messenger | 1997-05-17 |
| Movie | Photographing Fairies | Rev. Templeton | 1997-09-19 |
| Movie | The Assignment | Amos | 1997-09-28 |
| Movie | Twelfth Night | Feste | 1996-10-25 |
| Movie | Species | Xavier Fitch | 1995-07-07 |
| Movie | Joseph | Potifar | 1995-04-10 |
| 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 | Dave | Vice-President Nance | 1993-05-07 |
| Movie | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Bruce Pandolfini | 1993-08-13 |
| Movie | Schindler's List | Itzhak Stern | 1993-12-15 |
| 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 | The Fifth Monkey | Cunda | 1990-10-05 |
| Movie | Lenin: The Train | Lenin | 1990-04-30 |
| Movie | The Children | Martin Boyne | 1990-05-18 |
| Movie | Cellini: A Violent Life | Governor | 1990-05-02 |
| Movie | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Simon Wiesenthal | 1989-04-22 |
| Movie | Slipstream | Avatar | 1989-06-22 |
| Movie | Without a Clue | Dr. John Watson | 1988-05-05 |
| Series | The Secret of the Sahara | Sholomon | 1988-01-03 |
| Movie | Pascali's Island | Basil Pascali | 1988-07-22 |
| Movie | Testimony | Dmitri Shostakovich | 1988-11-01 |
| Series | Lenin... The Train | Lenin | 1988-11-30 |
| Movie | Maurice | Lasker-Jones | 1987-09-18 |
| Movie | Harem | Selim | 1985-11-06 |
| Movie | Silas Marner | Silas Marner | 1985-12-30 |
| Movie | Turtle Diary | William Snow | 1985-12-06 |
| Series | Playing Shakespeare | 1984-07-29 | |
| Movie | Camille | Duval | 1984-12-11 |
| Movie | Betrayal | Robert | 1983-02-19 |
| Movie | Schindler | Self - Narrator (2019) (voice) | 1983-10-01 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Fear Is the Key | Royale | 1972-12-26 |
| Series | The Adventurer | Pierre | 1972-09-29 |
| Series | Orlando | Peter Batterby | 1965-04-13 |
| Series | Pardon the Expression | Roy | 1965-06-02 |