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
Rumpole of the Bailey
Dr. Ghulam Rahmat
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Akram Malik
HARDtalk
Death on the Nile
Servant (uncredited)
The Troubleshooters
Sunil Seth
The Protectors
President's Aide
Gandhi
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Strangers
Narayan Bose
Callan
The Jewel in the Crown
Ahmed Ali Gaffur Kasim Bahadur, the Nawab of Mirat
Liberation
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
The Man Who Would Be King
Billy Fish
Mitch
Zahoor Ahmed
Two's Company
The Doctor
Strange Report
Ameen
The Regiment
Perfect World
Maggie's Father
Common As Muck
Nat Prabhakar
A Passage to India
Hamidullah
Little Napoleons
Vijay Shah
My Beautiful Laundrette
Nasser Ali
Dilwale
Police Commissioner
Gangsters
Aslam Rafiq
Plays for Britain
Dr. Haq
Yeh Dillagi
Bhanupratap Saigal
Tamas
Karim Khan
The Far Pavilions
Biju Ram
Animated World Faiths
Mardana (voice)
Jalwa
Yakub Saeed
Ram Teri Ganga Maili
Kunj Bihari