Ben Kingsley

Biography

Ben Kingsley was born in the Yorkshire. It is interested very early in the theater and becomes boarder of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He plays inter alia Othello , Hamlet and The Merry Wives off Windsor of Shakespeare, or the Cherry orchard of Tchekhov. Ben Kingsley begins with the cinema in 1972 in Fear is the Key from Michael Tuchner. He makes known himself general public in 1982 by interpreting the Mahatma Gandhi, in the film éponyme of Richard Attenborough. This role is worth to him to acquire day at the following day the statute of international high-speed motorboat. It obtains in 1982 for its interpretation: a Oscar of the best actor, the Golden Globe, as well as the New York Film Critic Award. Confined hitherto with the cinema and on television, its cinematographic career is then launched.

It appears thereafter in many films written by Harold Pinter, of which marital Trahisons . In 1987, it turns Maurice , a film of James Ivory.

Actor of composition, it varies his characters: notorious gangster in Bugsy (Barry Levinson), champion of failures in In the search of Bobby Fisher (Steven Zaillian), old of torture in the Young girl and Death (Roman Polanski) or Itzhak Stern, the Jewish accountant of Oskar Schindler, in the List of Schindler (Steven Spielberg).

It was anobli by the queen Elizabeth II in 2001.

Catalog of films

1966 : Orlando (series TV): Peter
1966: Coronation Street (series TV): Ron Jenkins
1972 : Fear Is the Key : Royal
1973: has Misfortune (TV)
1973: Barbara off the House off Grebe (TV): Lord Uplandtowers
1974: Antony and Cleopatra (TV): Thidias
1975 : The Brotherhood (TV): Rossetti
1975 : Impeccable Year Elopement (TV)
1975: Remember Me (TV)
1975: Beata Beatrix (TV)
1975: The Craftsman (TV)
1976: Dickens off London (serial TV): Dr. John Elliotson
1982: Kean (TV): Edmund Kean
1982 : Gandhi : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi "Bapu"
1982 : Merry Gossips of Windsor ( The Merry Wives off Windsor ) (TV): Frank Ford
1983: marital Treasons ( Betrayal ): Robert
1984: Camille (TV): Duval
1985: Turtle Diary : William Snow
1985: Harem : Selim
1985 : Silas Marner: The Weaver off Raveloe (TV): Silas Marner
1986 : Stanley' S Vision (TV): Stanley Spencer
1987 : the Secrecy of the Sahara ( It Segreto LED the Sahara ) (serial TV): Sholomon
1987 : Maurice : Lasker-Jones
1988: the Island of Pascali ( Pascali' S Island ): Basil Pascali
1988 : Elementary, my expensive… Lock Holmes ( Without has Clue ): Dr. John Watson
1988: Testimony : Dmitri Shostakovich
1989 : Murderers Among Custom: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (TV): Simon Wiesenthal
1989: Slipstream : Misadventure (Wind Cult)
1990: Romeo-Juliet : Father Capulet (voice)
1990: The Children : Martin Boyne
1990: a train for Petrograd ( Lenin: The Train ) (TV): Lenin
1990 : Cellini, gold and blood ( Una Vita scellerata ): Governor
1990 : O Quinto Macaco : Cunda
1991 : The War That Never Ends (TV): Pericles
1991 : necessary Love ( Amore necessario ): Ernesto
1991 : Bugsy, the gangster without scruple ( Bugsy ): Meyer Lansky
1992 : Freddie ace F.R.O.7 : Freddie (voice)
1992: the Experts ( Sneakers ): Cosmo
1993 : President one day old ( Dave ): Vice-president Nance
1993: In the search of Bobby Fischer ( Searching for Bobby Fischer ): Bruce Pandolfini
1993 : the List of Schindler ( Schindler' S List ): Itzhak Stern
1994 : the Young girl and Death ( Death and the Maiden ): Dr. Roberto Miranda
1995: the Bible: Joseph ( Joseph ) (TV): Potiphar
1995 : Mutant the ( Species ): Xavier Fitch
1995: the Bible: Brace ( Moses ) (TV): Moses
1996: the Night of the kings ( Twelfth Night: However What You Will ): Feste
1997 : Weapons off Farmhouse Distraction (TV): Julian Messenger
1997 : Contract on a terrorist ( The Assignment ): Amos
1997 : Forever ( Photographing Fairies ): Reverend Templeton
1998: the Graver of the horrors ( The Bruises Sweeney Todd off) (TV): Sweeney Todd
1998 : Crime and Punishment (TV): Porfiry
1999 : has Force More Powerful : Narrator (voice)
1999: The Confession : Harry Fertig
1999 : Alice with the country of the wonders ( Alice in Wonderland ) (TV): Major Caterpillar
1999: Parting Shots : Renzo Locatelli
2000 : Spooky House : The Great Zamboni
2000 : Of which planet do you come? ( What Planet Are You From? ): Graydon
2000 : the Hell of the duty ( Rules off Engagement ): Ambassador Mourain
2000 : Sexy Beast : Gift Logan
2001: Anne Frank ( Anne Frank: The Whole Story ) (TV): Otto Frank
2001 : AD INTERIM Artificial intelligence ( Artificial Intelligence: AI ): Specialist (voice)
2001: The Triumph off Coils : Hermocrates
2002 : Tuck eternal ( Tuck Everlasting ): Man in the Yellow Follows
2003: House off Sand and Fog : Behrani
2004 : Thunderbirds: Sentinels of the air ( Thunderbirds ): The Hood
2004 : Suspect zero ( Suspect Zero ): Benjamin O' Ryan
2005: has Sound Thunder off: Charles Hatton
2005: Oliver Twist : Fagin
2005 : Mrs. Harris ( Mrs. Harris ) (TV): Hermann Tarnower
2005: BloodRayne : Kagan
2006 : Slevin ( Lucky Number Slevin ): The Rabbi
2007: You Kill Me : Frank Falenczyk
2007 : the Last Legion ( The Last Legion ): Ambrosinus/Merlin

Discography

1991 : The tiger and the Brahim tale read by Ben Kingsley on a music of Ravi Shankar (musician) at Rabbit Ears.

Distinctions

Oscar of the best actor in 1982 for Gandhi .
Award Golden Globe: Better actor in a dramatic film in 1983 for Gandhi .
European Actor of the year, at the time of the Price of the European cinema in 2001 for Sexy Beast .
Screen Actors Guild Award of the best actor in a telefilm or a minisery in 2002 for Anne Frank .
Nomination with the Oscar of the best actor in 2003 for House off Sand and Fog .
Nomination at the price of the worst male supporting role at the time of the Razzie Awards 2006 for BloodRayne .

External bond

Ben Kingsley on Internet Movie Database

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