Saeed Jaffrey

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

Gandhi

as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Death on the Nile

as Servant (uncredited)

The Man Who Would Be King

as Billy Fish

A Passage to India

as Hamidullah

My Beautiful Laundrette

as Nasser Ali

The Razor's Edge

as Raaz

Star

as Rana

The Chess Players

as Mir Roshan Ali

Tales of the Unexpected

as Dr Kunzru

The Wilby Conspiracy

as Mukarjee