Saeed Jaffrey
Acting
Born: 1929-01-08 in Maler Kotla, Punjab, India
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Saeed Jaffrey OBE (1929 - 2015) was an Indian-born British actor, who made numerous British movies. He was born in Malerkotla, Punjab. His film credits included The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Shatranj Ke Khiladi (The Chess Players) (1977), Gandhi (1982), A Passage to India (1965 BBC version and 1984 film) and My Beautiful Laundrette (1985). He also appeared in many Bollywood films in the 1980s and 1990s. For television he has starred in Gangsters (1975–1978), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Tandoori Nights (1985–1987) and Little Napoleons (1994). He also appeared as Ravi Desai on Coronation Street as the father of Vikram Desai, the cousin of Dev Alahan and in Minder (TV series) as Mr Mukerjee in Series 1 episode The Bengal Tiger. Description above from the Wikipedia article Saeed Jaffrey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Play for Today
Gurjeet Singh Khera
Play for Today
Merchant
Play for Today
Rafiq
Tony Awards
Self - In Memoriam (archive footage)
Minder
Mukerjee
BBC Play of the Month
Mr. Hamidullah
Tales of the Unexpected
Dr Kunzru
Me & My Girl
Ranjit Sharma
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Akram Malik
Rumpole of the Bailey
Dr. Ghulam Rahmat
HARDtalk
Death on the Nile
Servant (uncredited)
The Troubleshooters
Sunil Seth
The Protectors
President's Aide
Gandhi
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Strangers
Narayan Bose
The Jewel in the Crown
Ahmed Ali Gaffur Kasim Bahadur, the Nawab of Mirat
Callan
The Man Who Would Be King
Billy Fish
Liberation
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Mitch
Zahoor Ahmed
Two's Company
The Doctor
Perfect World
Maggie's Father
Little Napoleons
Vijay Shah
Strange Report
Ameen
Common As Muck
Nat Prabhakar
The Regiment
A Passage to India
Hamidullah
Dilwale
Police Commissioner
My Beautiful Laundrette
Nasser Ali
Tamas
Karim Khan
Yeh Dillagi
Bhanupratap Saigal
Gangsters
Aslam Rafiq
Sphinx
Selim
Vansh
Police Commissioner
Jalwa
Yakub Saeed
Tandoori Nights
Jimmy Sharma