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Saeed Jaffrey

Saeed Jaffrey

Birthday: 1929-01-08 | Place of Birth: Maler Kotla, Punjab, India

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Saeed Jaffrey OBE (born 8 January 1929) is an Indian-born British actor, who has done numerous British movies. He was born in Malerkotla, Punjab. His film credits include 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 has 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2008
Bunker Hill

as    Mr. Farook

2005
Chicken Tikka Masala

as    C. P. Chopra

1998
Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai

as    Komal's Father

1997
Judaai

as    Mr. Sahni

1994
Common As Muck

as    Nat Prabhakar

1993
Aaina

as    Mr. Mathur

1989
Ram Lakhan

as    Police Commissioner Arun Kashyap

1988
The Deceivers

as    Hussein

1985
My Beautiful Laundrette

as    Nasser Ali

1984
The Far Pavilions

as    Biju Ram

1984
The Razor's Edge

as    Raaz

1982
Star

as    Rana

1981
Sphinx

as    Selim

1975
The Man Who Would Be King

as    Billy Fish

1975
The Wilby Conspiracy

as    Mukarjee

1971
The Horsemen

as    District Chief

1
Mr In-Between

as    Mr. Basmati