Saeed Jaffrey
Actor
Biography
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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.
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Filmography
Death on the Nile
as Servant (uncredited) 1978
The Man Who Would Be King
as Billy Fish 1975
A Passage to India
as Hamidullah 1984
My Beautiful Laundrette
as Nasser Ali 1985
The Razor's Edge
as Raaz 1984
Star
as Rana 1982
The Chess Players
as Mir Roshan Ali 1977
The Wilby Conspiracy
as Anil Mukerjee 1975
Dil
as Mr. Mehra 1990
The Deceivers
as Hussein 1988
Sphinx
as Selim 1981
Masoom
as Suri 1983
Judaai
as Mr. Sahni 1997
The Horsemen
as District Chief 1971
Deewana Mastana
as Chander Nandkishore Kapoor Sharma 1997
Ram Lakhan
as Police Commissioner Arun Kashyap 1989