Ben Kingsley

Q: Has Ben Kingsley won any major awards?

Yes, Ben Kingsley has won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actor for 'Gandhi', a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performances.

Q: What was Ben Kingsley's first film?

Ben Kingsley's first film was 'Fear Is the Key', released in 1972, where he played a supporting role. He gained wider recognition in the following decades.

Q: What is Ben Kingsley's estimated net worth?

Ben Kingsley's estimated net worth is around $60 million, attributed to his lengthy and successful career in film and television.

Q: How many children does Ben Kingsley have?

Ben Kingsley has four children. His son, Edmund Kingsley, is also an actor, continuing the family legacy in the entertainment industry.

Q: What is a defining characteristic of Ben Kingsley's acting style?

A defining characteristic of Ben Kingsley's acting style is his ability to convey deep emotions and nuances in his characters, often immersing himself fully into diverse roles.

Q: What kind of roles is Ben Kingsley known for?

Ben Kingsley is known for portraying complex and often historical figures, such as Mahatma Gandhi and Oskar Schindler's associate. His roles often highlight moral dilemmas and human conditions.

Q: When did Ben Kingsley start his acting career?

Ben Kingsley began his acting career in the 1960s, performing in theatre before transitioning to film. His breakthrough came with 'Gandhi' in 1982, establishing him as a major film actor.

Known for

Schindler’s List (1993)

IMDb 9 / 10

1993 / Biography, Drama / 195 min

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his...

Shutter Island (2010)

2010 / Mystery, Thriller / 138mins

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are...

Hugo (2011)

IMDb 7.5 / 10

2011 / Drama, Family / 126 min

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to...

Name

Ben Kingsley

Height

5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Born

31 December 1943, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England

Spouses

Alexandra Christmann (2007–present) Geraldine Hakewill (1978–1992)

Children

4 (including actor Edmund Kingsley)

Parents

Anna Kingsley, Arnold Kingsley

Estimated Net Worth

$60 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2027	Movie Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Sonic the Hedgehog, joined by a new hero named Amy, faces a new technological nemesis known as Metal Sonic.	(voice)	Not rated
2026	Movie Young Washington Before he led a nation, George Washington was a young soldier thrown into a global conflict. With alliances crumbling and...	Robert Dinwiddie	Not rated
2026	TV The Old Stories: Moses A window into the narratives that shaped Israel long before David took the throne. As the past unfolds with epic...	Moses	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2026	Movie Deep Water A group of international passengers on a flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai is forced to make an emergency landing...	Rich	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2026	Movie Desert Warrior In 7th-century Arabia, Princess Hind becomes a warrior to defy the ruthless Emperor Kisra. Forged into a warrior and aided...	Emperor Kisra II	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2026	TV Wonder Man Simon and Trevor, two actors at opposite ends of their careers, chase life-changing roles.	Trevor Slattery	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2025	Movie The Thursday Murder Club A group of senior sleuths passionate about solving cold cases get plunged into a real-life murder mystery in this comic...	Ibrahim	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2025	Movie The King of Kings Charles Dickens tells his young son Walter the greatest story ever told, and what begins as a bedtime tale becomes...	High Priest Caiaphas (voice)	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2025	Movie William Tell The narrative unfolds in the 14th Century, when the European nations vie for supremacy within the Holy Roman Empire. The...	King Albrecht	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2024	Movie The Killer's Game When top hitman Joe Flood is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decides to take matters into his own hands...	Zvi Rabinowitz	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2024	Movie The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More Four tales unfold in Wes Anderson's anthology of short films adapted from Roald Dahl's beloved stories, "The Wonderful Story of...	Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2023	Movie Poison When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.	Dr. Ganderbai	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2023	Movie The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes. He sets out to master the...	Imdad Khan / Croupier	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2023	Movie Jules A flying saucer lands in the backyard of an elderly suburbanite with memory problems, who forms a bond with the...	Milton Robinson	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2022	Movie Dalíland In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps aging genius Salvador...	Dalí	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2022	Movie Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry Robin Williams. The comic genius with an electric mind, with a range of talent that left us breathless. The one...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2021	Movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious...	Trevor Slattery	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2021	TV Marvel Studios Assembled Go behind the scenes of the shows and movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, following the filmmakers, cast and crew,...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2021	Movie Locked Down During a COVID-19 lockdown, sparring couple Linda and Paxton call a truce to attempt a high-risk jewellery heist at one...	Malcolm	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2021	TV Marvel Studios Legends Revisit the epic heroes, villains and moments from across the MCU in preparation for the stories still to come. Each...	Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2019	Movie The Medicine Buddha This one-of-a-kind documentary narrated by Academy Award winner Sir Ben Kingsley is a profoundly cinematic portrait of the renowned Mongolian...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2019	Movie Night Hunter A Minnesota police officer crosses paths with a committed and tireless vigilante as he follows the trail of a ruthless...	Cooper	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2019	Movie The Red Sea Diving Resort Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to...	Ethan Levin	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2019	TV Perpetual Grace LTD James, a disgraced firefighter turned grifter, seizes a chance, illicit opportunity to reverse his life’s worsening course as he attempts...	Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2019	Movie Spider in the Web A young operative is sent on a mission to follow an older agent who's behavior has come into question.	Adereth	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2018	TV Watership Down Fleeing their doomed warren, a group of rabbits struggle to find and defend a new home.	General Woundwort (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2018	Movie An Oral History of: Schindler's List Revisiting the making of the film through the voices of those involved, including director Steven Spielberg and stars like Liam...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2018	Movie Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2018	Movie Inside the Operation A behind-the-scenes look at Operation Finale.	Self	Not rated
2018	Movie Who Killed British Cinema? A feature length documentary about the real state of the British film industry in relation to UK structures past, present...	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2018	Movie Intrigo: Death of an Author A young author comes into possession of a manuscript sent by critically acclaimed writer, Germund Rein, shortly before he commits...	Henderson	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2018	Movie Schindler's List: 25 Years Later Perhaps Steven Spielberg's best movie! The amazing story of Oskar Schindler, who saved more than 3500 Jews from death during...	Self	Not rated
2018	Movie Operation Finale In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the...	Adolf Eichmann	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2018	TV All or Nothing: Manchester City Legendary coach Pep Guardiola leads his Manchester City team through the 2017-18 football season.	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2018	Movie Backstabbing for Beginners An idealistic young employee at the U.N. investigates the grisly murder of his predecessor – and uncovers a vast global...	Pasha	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2017	Movie An Ordinary Man A war criminal in hiding forms a relationship with his only connection to the outside world - his maid.	The General	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2017	Movie Spielberg A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.	Self	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2017	Movie War Machine A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern...	President Karzai	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2017	Movie The Ottoman Lieutenant Lillie, a determined American woman, ventures overseas to join Dr. Jude at a remote medical mission in the Ottoman Empire...	Woodruff	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2017	Movie Security An ex-special services veteran, down on his luck and desperate for work, takes a job as a security guard at...	Charlie	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2016	Movie Of Dogs and Men Of Dogs and Men explores the lengths people will go to change their station in life, and whether the path...	The Caller (voice)	Not rated
2016	Movie Collide An American backpacker gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver, and winds up on the run...	Geran	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2016	Movie The Jungle Book After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli, a man-cub fostered by wolves, is forced to flee the jungle,...	Bagheera (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2015	Movie Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC The BBC delves into its archives to discover British acting greats as they take their first tentative steps on the...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2015	Movie The Walk The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in...	Papa Rudy	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2015	Movie Knight of Cups Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused,...	Storyteller (voice)	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2015	Movie Life In 1955, young photographer Dennis Stock develops a close bond with actor James Dean while shooting pictures of the rising...	Jack Warner	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2015	Movie Unity Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2015	TV Tut The story of the Egyptian Pharaoh, one of the most renowned leaders in human history. This ambitious special-event series tells...	Ay	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2015	Movie Self/less An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body...	Damian	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2015	TV Lip Sync Battle Each episode features two A-list celebrities like you've never seen them before - syncing their hearts out in hysterically epic...	Self	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2015	Movie Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse When aspiring knight Gareth goes in search of a fallen comet rumored to contain gold, he is shocked to instead...	Drago (Voice)	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2015	Movie Robot Overlords Earth has been conquered by robots from another galaxy and the human survivors must stay in their homes, or risk...	Robin Smythe	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2014	TV Der Medicus	Ibn Sina	Not rated
2014	Movie Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb When the magic powers of The Tablet of Ahkmenrah begin to die out, Larry Daley spans the globe, uniting favorite...	Merenkahre	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2014	Movie Exodus: Gods and Kings The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape...	Nun	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2014	Movie Stonehearst Asylum An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental...	Silas Lamb	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2014	Movie The Boxtrolls An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to...	Snatcher (voice)	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2014	Movie Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film The life story of the film director, movie star and industry figure who furthered the cause of cinema: Lord Richard...	Self	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2014	Movie Learning to Drive As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own....	Darwan	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2014	TV Garfunkel and Oates The comic/folk duo Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci hit prime time with their act in this scripted series for IFC....	Ben Kingsley	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2014	Movie Walking with the Enemy Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the...	Regent Miklos Horthy	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2014	TV Late Night with Seth Meyers Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live's" longest serving anchor on the show's wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2014	Movie Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King A documentary filmmaker interviews the now-famous Trevor Slattery from behind bars.	Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2014	Movie War Story Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and...	Albert	TMDB 4.1 / 10
2013	Movie The Physician England, 1021: Born in a miserable mining town, Robert Cole swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death....	Ibn Sina	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2013	Movie Ender's Game Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children...	Mazer Rackham	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2013	Movie Muse of Fire This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to find out...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2013	Movie A Common Man A terrorist plants several bombs throughout the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka and threatens to detonate them unless prisoners are...	The Man	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2013	Movie A Birder's Guide to Everything David Portnoy, a 15-year-old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. So, on the eve of...	Lawrence Konrad	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2013	Movie Iron Man 3 When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding...	Trevor Slattery	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2012	Movie It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl The latest production of Moriah Films is It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl, exploring the life and...	Narrator	Not rated
2012	Movie Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard Director Tony Palmer tells the incredible life story of Athol Fugard, the prolific playwright, novelist, and director who exposed the...	Self	Not rated
2012	Movie The Dictator The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country...	Tamir	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2012	Movie Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' The cast and crew of "Hugo" discuss the process of adapting the book to screen, the work of director Martin...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2012	Movie The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo' This documentary looks back at the history of automata but also briefly examines the design of the automaton seen in...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2012	Movie The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès A look back at the life, style and influences of the famed filmmaker Georges Méliès and an examination of his...	Self	Not rated
2012	Movie Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime A humorous short piece that looks at Sacha Baron Cohen's approach to his role in the film "Hugo."	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2011	Movie Hugo Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris....	Georges Méliès	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2011	Movie The Desert of Forbidden Art How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists who stay true to their vision...	Voice	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2010	Movie Aral, the Lost Sea Documentary produced for the We Are Water Foundation, on the ecological disaster of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Aral...	Unknown character	TMDB 2.7 / 10
2010	Movie Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny Walking With Destiny highlights Churchill's years in the political wilderness, his early opposition to Adolf Hitler and Nazism, and his...	Narrator	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2010	Movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time A rogue prince reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an...	Nizam	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2010	Movie Teen Patti A professor uses the three-card game to prove his probability thesis. He involves some of his students on his research...	Perci Trachtenberg	TMDB 3.8 / 10
2010	Movie Shutter Island World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane,...	Dr. Cawley	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2010	Movie 1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets Three school children visit a dusty library to research the story of 'The Dark Ages'. What they find changes their...	Al-Jazari / Librarian	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2009	Movie Journey to Mecca The 20 year old Muslim religious law student Ibn Battuta (1304–1368), whose full name was Abu Abdullah Muhammed Ibn Abdullah...	Narrator	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2008	Movie Fifty Dead Men Walking It's 1989, and in a Belfast torn apart by conflict and terrorism, petty criminal Marty McGartland is recruited by the...	Fergus	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2008	Movie Elegy Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into...	David Kepesh	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2008	Movie The Wackness Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer,...	Dr. Squires	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2008	Movie The Love Guru Born in America and raised in an Indian ashram, Pitka returns to his native land to seek his fortune as...	Guru Tugginmypuddha	TMDB 4.1 / 10
2008	Movie War, Inc. In the future, the desert country of Turaqistan is torn by a riot after private corporation Tamerlane, owned by the...	Walken / The Viceroy	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2008	Movie TransSiberian A TransSiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple...	Grinko	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2007	Movie The Ten Commandments This vibrantly animated feature recounts the biblical epic of the Hebrew prophet Moses and the Ten Commandments. Led by the...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2007	Movie I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal "I Have Never Forgotten You" is a comprehensive look at the life and legacy of Simon Wiesenthal, the famed Nazi...	Self	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2007	Movie The Last Legion As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to...	Ambrosinus	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2007	Movie You Kill Me While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in...	Frank Falenczyk	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2006	Movie The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel Retrospective documentary of the film "Bugsy"	Self	Not rated
2006	Movie C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia A documentary about the life and faith of C.S. Lewis and his inspiration for the Chronicles of Narnia, only available...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2006	Movie Mais Bastidores de Hollywood	Self	Not rated
2006	Movie 50 Films to See Before You Die Celebrating the relaunch of Film4 as a free-to-air TV channel, Channel4 counts down their list of the fop 50 films...	Self	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2006	Movie Mrs. Harris Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of...	Herman Tarnower	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2006	Movie Lucky Number Slevin Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch,...	The Rabbi	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2006	Movie The Life and Faith of CS Lewis Narrated by Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley, this multi-award-winning program is the most complete portrait of C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), widely known...	Unknown character	Not rated
2005	Movie Peace Is Every Step The influential life and powerful messages of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh are explored in this biographical documentary. For...	Narrator	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2005	Movie BloodRayne In 18th-century Romania, after spending much of her life in a traveling circus, human-vampire hybrid Rayne escapes and plots to...	Kagan	TMDB 4.1 / 10
2005	Movie Oliver Twist When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's...	Fagin	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2005	Movie A Sound of Thunder When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a...	Charles Hatton	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2005	Movie Nos Bastidores de Hollywood	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2005	TV The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson,...	Self - Guest	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2004	Movie Suspect Zero A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims...	Benjamin O'Ryan	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2004	Movie No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the 2004 movie THUNDERBIRDS.	Self	Not rated
2004	Movie Thunderbirds Dangerous missions are the bread and butter of the Thunderbirds, a high-tech secret force employed by the government. Led by...	The Hood	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2004	TV Religion of the World	Narrator	Not rated
2004	Movie Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship with...	Self	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2003	Movie House of Sand and Fog Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough...	Behrani	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2003	Movie Unlikely Heroes For most, the idea of Jewish resistance or defiance during the Holocaust is limited to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and...	Narrator	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2003	Movie The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough Two-part Arena special celebrating the life and distinguished career of one of Britain's best-loved public figures. Lord Attenborough's film CV...	Unknown character	Not rated
2003	Movie The Making of ‘Sneakers’ Behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of ‘Sneakers’ (1992).	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2003	Movie Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land Relive Helenas journey as she discovers the land of Jesus.	Narrator	Not rated
2002	Movie Tuck Everlasting Teenager Winnie Foster is growing up in a small rural town in 1914 with her loving but overprotective parents, but...	Man in the Yellow Suit	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2002	Movie Spooky House A magician with a mysterious secret lives alone with his jaguar, Shadow, in the Spooky House, an old mansion rigged...	The Great Zamboni	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2001	Movie The Triumph of Love A princess is determined to restore her homeland's throne to its rightful heir, a young prince with whom she falls...	Hermocrates	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2001	Movie Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi"	Self - Interviewee	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2001	Movie The Making of Sexy Beast A brief promotional featurette about the film including comments from most of the cast, as well as from director Jonathan...	Self	Not rated
2001	Movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee...	Specialist (voice)	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2001	TV Anne Frank: The Whole Story The life of Anne Frank and her family from 1939 to 1945: pre-war fears, invasion of Netherlands by German troops,...	Otto Frank	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2001	TV Islam: Empire of Faith Between the fall of Rome and the European voyages of discovery, no event was more significant than the rise of...	Narrator	Not rated
2001	Movie Islam: Empire of Faith Islam: Empire of Faith is a documentary series that details the history of Islam, from the birth of the Islamic...	Self - Narrator	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2001	Movie Sexy Beast Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a...	Don Logan	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2000	Movie Rules of Engagement A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in...	Ambassador Mourain	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2000	Movie What Planet Are You From? A human-looking alien from a highly advanced but emotionless all-male society is sent to Earth to impregnate a woman and...	Graydon	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1999	Movie A Force More Powerful A Force More Powerful is a 1999 feature-length documentary film and a 2000 PBS series written and directed by Steve...	Narator	TMDB 8.3 / 10
1999	TV CNN Millennium A documentary series covering the last 1,000 years. Each of the 10 episodes focuses on a single century, brought to...	Narrator	Not rated
1999	TV Rove Rove, formerly Rove Live, was an Australian television variety show which premiered on the Nine Network on 22 September 1999,...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1999	Movie Parting Shots Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is given a diagnosis of cancer and told that he has only three months to...	Renzo Locatelli	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1999	Movie The Confession After his young son dies from the negligence at a hospital, Harry Fertig takes matters into his own hands and...	Harry Fertig	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1999	Movie Alice in Wonderland Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire...	Major Caterpillar	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1999	TV The Sopranos The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the...	Ben Kingsley	TMDB 8.7 / 10
1998	Movie Crime and Punishment Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is...	Magistrate Porfiry	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1998	Movie The Tale of Sweeney Todd The fictional tale of the murderous 19th century barber (Ben Kinglsey) who sold his kills to a neighboring butcher (Joanna...	Sweeney Todd	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1998	TV Religions of the World Narrated by Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley, this series objectively documents religions worldwide with interviews from experts. Explore issues that probe...	Narrator	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1997	Movie The Assignment Jack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez...	Amos	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1997	Movie Photographing Fairies Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working...	Rev. Templeton	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1997	Movie Weapons of Mass Distraction As two warring media moguls grapple for ownership of a coveted professional football team, they use the newspapers, magazines and...	Julian Messenger	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1997	TV HARDtalk In-depth interviews with hard-hitting questions and sensitive topics being covered as famous personalities from all walks of life talk about...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.7 / 10
1996	Movie Twelfth Night Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she...	Feste	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1996	TV Moses An ordinary man is called upon by God to do the impossible in this lovingly told production of the Old...	Moses	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1995	Movie Species In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions...	Xavier Fitch	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1995	TV Joseph The Biblical story of Joseph, who was sold to slavery by his brothers who were jealous of his prophetic abilities...	Potiphar	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1995	Movie Joseph Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. Rising to become...	Potiphar	TMDB 8.2 / 10
1994	TV Inside the Actors Studio James Lipton sits down with some of the world's most accomplished actors and directors for penetrating, fascinating interviews.	Self	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1994	Movie Death and the Maiden A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.	Dr. Roberto Miranda	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1994	Movie Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold A documentary about actor Michael Caine. Narrated by Caine himself, it includes interviews of his family, friends and colleagues and...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1994	Movie Liberation Liberation tells the dramatic story of the battle waged on two fronts during World War II - the Allied campaign...	Narrator	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1993	Movie Schindler's List The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked...	Itzhak Stern	TMDB 8.6 / 10
1993	Movie Searching for Bobby Fischer A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby...	Bruce Pandolfini	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1993	Movie Dave A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in...	Vice-President Nance	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1992	Movie Sneakers When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a...	Cosmo	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1992	Movie Freddie As F.R.O.7. Frederick is a young medieval French prince with magical powers, turned into a frog by his evil sorceress aunt, who...	Freddie (voice)	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1991	Movie Bugsy New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul...	Meyer Lansky	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1991	Movie Necessary Love In the 19th century Europe, an aging scheming couple decides to manipulate and seduce a couple of young newlyweds in...	Unknown character	TMDB 9.2 / 10
1991	Movie Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver This is the miraculous story of how Moses receives the Ten Commandments from God atop Mt. Sinai and leads the...	Narrator (voice)	Not rated
1991	Movie Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin When a Brahmin accidentally releases a tiger, the tiger is bent on eating the Brahmin. However, a clever jackal is...	Narrator (voice)	Not rated
1991	Movie The War That Never Ends The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato,...	Pericles	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1990	Movie The Fifth Monkey When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucination of...	Cunda	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1990	Movie The Children After years working in Brazil, middle-aged engineer Martin Boyner returns to Switzerland to marry his longtime friend, the recently widowed...	Martin Boyne	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1990	Movie Cellini: A Violent Life The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy...	Governor	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1990	Movie Romeo.Juliet The tale centers on an eccentric bag lady who rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a...	Father Capulet (voice)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1989	Movie The Making of Slipstream The making of Steven Lisberger's 1989 Sci-Fi film Slipstream	Unknown character	Not rated
1989	Movie Slipstream In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter...	Avatar	TMDB 4.3 / 10
1989	Movie Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows...	Simon Wiesenthal	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1988	TV Lenin... The Train In March 1917, amidst World War I, a sealed train carries Russian revolutionaries, led by Lenin, from Germany to St....	Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1988	Movie Lenin: The Train March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps...	Lenin	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1988	Movie Testimony The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.	Dmitri Shostakovich	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1988	Movie Pascali's Island 1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a...	Basil Pascali	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1988	Movie Without a Clue Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation....	Dr. John Watson	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1988	TV The Secret of the Sahara In 1925, Desmond Jordan, an American archaeologist, tries to find the mysterious Speaking Mountain that is supposed to be in...	Sholomon	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1987	TV Dispatches Long-running Channel 4 documentary series covering issues about British society, politics, health, religion, international current affairs and the environment. Known...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1987	TV Seitenblicke An Austrian magazine-TV show.	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1987	Movie Maurice After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.	Lasker-Jones	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1985	Movie Silas Marner Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until...	Silas Marner	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1985	Movie Turtle Diary Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at...	William Snow	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1985	Movie Harem Diane is a sophisticated trainee on the New York Stock Exchange who is suddenly kidnapped and held captive in a...	Selim	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1985	Movie To Be Hamlet Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the part discuss Hamlet's personality,...	Self	Not rated
1984	Movie Camille Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When...	Duval	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1984	TV Oxbridge Blues An anthology series of seven linked plays about the lives of people connected with the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.	Geoff Craven	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1984	TV Playing Shakespeare John Barton holds a master class in how to play Shakespeare, using members of the RSC doing scenes, sonnets, and...	Unknown character	TMDB 9.7 / 10
1984	TV Goldene Kamera	Self	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1983	Movie Betrayal An affair between a literary agent and his best friend's wife, unfolding in reverse-chronological order.	Robert	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1983	Movie Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi The making of the film Gandhi (1982).	Self	Not rated
1982	Movie The Merry Wives of Windsor When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair...	Frank Ford	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1982	Movie Gandhi In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take...	Mahatma Gandhi	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1981	TV Entertainment Tonight Daily tabloid television news show on entertainment and celebrity news with unprecedented access to Hollywood's biggest stars, exclusive behind-the-scenes looks...	Self	TMDB 4.3 / 10
1981	TV Wetten, dass..? A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show...	Self	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1979	Movie Every Good Boy Deserves Favour Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is a stage play by Tom Stoppard with music by André Previn. It was first...	Ivanov	Not rated
1978	Movie Thank You, Comrades TV play by Jim Hawkins based on real events in Russia and the USA just after the Bolshevik Revolution.	Roberto Cibrario	Not rated
1978	TV The BBC Television Shakespeare The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric...	Frank Ford	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1977	TV The Velvet Glove A series of plays about strong women.	Chakravarti	Not rated
1976	TV Dickens of London A 13-episode miniseries from Yorkshire Television, about Charles Dickens, by now an internationally renowned novelist, during an 1869 tour of...	Dr. John Elliotson	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1975	TV The Love School The Love School is a BBC television drama miniseries originally broadcast from 22 January to 26 February 1975 about the...	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Not rated
1975	Movie Antony and Cleopatra Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.	Thidias	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1974	TV Playhouse A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.	Ivanov	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1973	TV Wessex Tales An anthology series based on the Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories by novelist Thomas Hardy.	Lord Uplandtowers	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1973	Movie Hard Labour A quiet and put-upon house cleaner breaks her silence.	Naseem	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1972	Movie Fear Is the Key A deep-sea salvage expert enacts an elaborate plan to infiltrate and take revenge on a criminal organization that dealt him...	Royale	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1972	TV Pebble Mill at One Pebble Mill at One was a popular British lunchtime magazine, broadcast live from Monday to Friday at 13:00, mainly on...	Unknown character	Not rated
1972	TV The Adventurer The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972...	Pierre	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1963	TV World in Action World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998,...	Re-enactment	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1953	TV The Oscars An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy...	Self - Presenter	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1951	TV Hallmark Hall of Fame Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards,...	Duval	TMDB 8.8 / 10
1948	TV Bambi The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda...	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1944	TV Golden Globe Awards An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press...	Self - Audience Member	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1944	TV Golden Globe Awards An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press...	Self - Nominee	TMDB 7.2 / 10
TBA	Movie Fortitude Brilliant British Army officers Dudley Clarke and Thomas Argyll “Tar” Robertson deploy an elaborate web of deception campaigns including fictitious...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie The Way of the Wind A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Mary Under the reign of terror of Herod the Great and against all odds, Mary and Joseph survive as young parents...	King Herod	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2022	Movie Dalíland In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps aging genius Salvador...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2004	TV Religion of the World	Creator Creator	Not rated

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Desert Warrior

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The Thursday Murder Club

2025 / TMDB 6.6

The King of Kings

2025 / TMDB 8.3

William Tell

2025 / TMDB 6.2

The Killer's Game

2024 / TMDB 6.4

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Schindler’s List (1993)

Shutter Island (2010)

Hugo (2011)

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