Ben Kingsley

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1943-12-31 (80 years old)

Place of Birth Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

Also Known As Sir Ben Kingsley , Krishna Pandit Bhanji, بن كينغسلي, 벤 킹즐리, ベン・キングズレー, เบน คิงสลีย์, 本·金斯利, Бен Кингсли, Krishna Bhanji, Σερ Μπεν Κίνγκσλεϊ, Μπεν Κίνγκσλεϊ, बेन किंग्सले, Сер Бен Кингсли, בן קינגסלי, 班·金斯利

Ben Kingsley

Biography

Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; December 31, 1943) is an English actor. He has received various accolades throughout his career spanning five decades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. Kingsley was appointed Knight Bachelor in 2002 for services to the British film industry. In 2010, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2013, he received the Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Kingsley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

Desert Warrior

as Emperor Kisra

The Thursday Murder Club

as Ibrahim Arif

Mary

as King Herod

Wonder Man

as Trevor Slattery

2025
The King of Kings

as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)

2024
The Killer's Game

as Zvi Rabinowitz

2024
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai

2023
Poison

as Dr. Ganderbai

2023
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

as Imdad Khan / Croupier

2023
Jules

as Milton Robinson

2022
Dalíland

as Dalí

2021
Locked Down

as Malcolm

2021
Marvel Studios Legends

as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)

2019
The Medicine Buddha

as Narration

2019
Night Hunter

as Cooper

2019
2019
2019
Perpetual Grace LTD

as Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown

2018
Operation Finale

as Adolf Eichmann

2018
Watership Down

as General Woundwort (voice)

2018
2017
An Ordinary Man

as The General

2017
Spielberg

as Self

2017
War Machine

as President Karzai

2017
2017
Security

as Charlie

2016
Of Dogs and Men

as The Caller (voice)

2016
Collide

as Geran

2016
The Jungle Book

as Bagheera (voice)

2015
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

as Self (archive footage)

2015
The Walk

as Papa Rudy

2015
Knight of Cups

as Storyteller (voice)

2015
Life

as Jack Warner

2015
Unity

as Narrator (voice)

2015
Self/less

as Damian

2015
Tut

as Ay

2015
2014
Stonehearst Asylum

as Silas Lamb

2014
Robot Overlords

as Robin Smythe

2014
The Boxtrolls

as Archibald Snatcher (voice)

2014
2014
Walking with the Enemy

as Regent Miklos Horthy

2014
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin

2014
And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2014
War Story

as Albert

2014
Garfunkel and Oates

as Ben Kingsley

2013
The Physician

as Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

2013
Ender's Game

as Mazer Rackham

2013
Muse of Fire

as Self

2013
A Common Man

as The Man

2013
2013
Iron Man 3

as Trevor Slattery

2012
A Therapy

as Therapist

2012
The Dictator

as Tamir

2011
Hugo

as Georges Méliès

2010
Teen Patti

as Perci Trachtenberg

2010
Shutter Island

as Dr. Cawley

2010
2009
Journey to Mecca

as Narrator

2008
Elegy

as David Kepesh

2008
The Wackness

as Dr. Squires

2008
The Love Guru

as Guru Tugginmypuddha

2008
War, Inc.

as Walken / The Viceroy

2008
TransSiberian

as Grinko

2007
The Ten Commandments

as Narrator (voice)

2007
The Last Legion

as Ambrosinus

2007
You Kill Me

as Frank Falenczyk

2006
Mrs. Harris

as Herman Tarnower

2006
Lucky Number Slevin

as The Rabbi

2006
The One Show

as Self

2005
2005
BloodRayne

as Kagan

2005
Oliver Twist

as Fagin

2005
A Sound of Thunder

as Charles Hatton

2004
Suspect Zero

as Benjamin O'Ryan

2004
Thunderbirds

as The Hood

2004
2003
2003
Unlikely Heroes

as Narrator

2002
Tuck Everlasting

as Man in the Yellow Suit

2002
Spooky House

as The Great Zamboni

2001
The Triumph of Love

as Hermocrates

2001
A.I. Artificial Intelligence

as Specialist (voice)

2001
Islam: Empire of Faith

as Himself - Narrator

2001
Sexy Beast

as Don Logan

2001
2001
2000
Rules of Engagement

as Ambassador Mourain

1999
1999
Parting Shots

as Renzo Locatelli

1999
The Confession

as Harry Fertig

1999
Alice in Wonderland

as Major Caterpillar

1999
CNN Millennium

as Narrator

1999
Rove

as Self

1999
The Sopranos

as Ben Kingsley

1998
Crime and Punishment

as Magistrate Porfiry

1998
The Tale of Sweeney Todd

as Sweeney Todd

1997
1997
Photographing Fairies

as Rev. Templeton

1997
Weapons of Mass Distraction

as Julian Messenger

1996
Twelfth Night

as Feste

1996
Moses

as Moses

1995
Moses

as Moses

1995
Species

as Xavier Fitch

1995
Joseph

as Potifar

1995
Joseph

as Potiphar

1994
Death and the Maiden

as Dr. Roberto Miranda

1994
Liberation

as Narrator

1993
Schindler's List

as Itzhak Stern

1993
Searching for Bobby Fischer

as Bruce Pandolfini

1993
Dave

as Vice-President Nance

1992
Sneakers

as Cosmo

1992
Freddie as F.R.O.7.

as Freddie (voice)

1991
Bugsy

as Meyer Lansky

1991
1991
1990
1990
The Children

as Martin Boyne

1990
1990
1990
Romeo.Juliet

as Father Capulet (voice)

1989
Slipstream

as Avatar

1988
Testimony

as Dmitri Shostakovich

1988
Pascali's Island

as Basil Pascali

1988
Without a Clue

as Dr. John Watson

1988
1988
1987
Maurice

as Lasker-Jones

1987
Seitenblicke

as self

1985
Silas Marner

as Silas Marner

1985
Turtle Diary

as William Snow

1985
Harem

as Selim

1985
To Be Hamlet

as Self

1984
Camille

as Duval

1984
Oxbridge Blues

as Geoff Craven

1983
Schindler

as Self - Narrator (2019) (voice)

1983
Betrayal

as Robert

1982
1982
Gandhi

as Mahatma Gandhi

1981
1976
Dickens Of London

as Dr. John Elliotson

1975
1975
The Love School

as Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1974
Playhouse

as Robert Cibrario

1974
Playhouse

as Ivanov

1973
Hard Labour

as Naseem

1972
Fear Is the Key

as Royale

1972
The Adventurer

as Pierre

1965
Orlando

as Peter Batterby

1953
The Oscars

as Self - Presenter

1948
Bambi Awards

as Self

1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Creator

2004
1988

Producer

2022
Dalíland

as Executive Producer