Ben Kingsley: movies and TV shows
Ben Kingsley has 221 credits in the archive: 172 films and 49 TV series, from 1944 to 2027. Highest rated: Playing Shakespeare (9.7/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2027 · busiest year: 2014 (12 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | Sonic the Hedgehog 4 | (voice) | Film | — | 83 |
| 2026 | Deep Water | Rich | Film | 7.5 | 82 |
| 2026 | Desert Warrior | Emperor Kisra II | Film | 5.7 | 82 |
| 2026 | Young Washington | Robert Dinwiddie | Film | 8.1 | 82 |
| 2026 | Wonder Man | Trevor Slattery | TV | 7.0 | 82 |
| 2026 | The Old Stories: Moses | Moses | TV | 9.0 | 82 |
| 2025 | The Thursday Murder Club | Ibrahim | Film | 6.6 | 81 |
| 2025 | The King of Kings | High Priest Caiaphas (voice) | Film | 8.3 | 81 |
| 2025 | William Tell | King Albrecht | Film | 6.2 | 81 |
| 2024 | The Killer's Game | Zvi Rabinowitz | Film | 6.4 | 80 |
| 2024 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More | Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage) | Film | 7.5 | 80 |
| 2023 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar | Imdad Khan / Croupier | Film | 7.2 | 79 |
| 2023 | Poison | Dr. Ganderbai | Film | 6.9 | 79 |
| 2023 | Jules | Milton Robinson | Film | 7.1 | 79 |
| 2022 | Dalíland | Dalí | Film | 5.9 | 78 |
| 2022 | Dalíland | Film | 5.9 | 78 | |
| 2022 | Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry | Self | Film | 10.0 | 78 |
| 2021 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Trevor Slattery | Film | 7.5 | 77 |
| 2021 | Marvel Studios Legends | Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage) | TV | 7.4 | 77 |
| 2021 | Marvel Studios Assembled | Self | TV | 7.2 | 77 |
| 2021 | Locked Down | Malcolm | Film | 5.2 | 77 |
| 2019 | Night Hunter | Cooper | Film | 6.6 | 75 |
| 2019 | Perpetual Grace LTD | Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown | TV | 7.4 | 75 |
| 2019 | The Red Sea Diving Resort | Ethan Levin | Film | 6.8 | 75 |
| 2019 | Spider in the Web | Adereth | Film | 5.0 | 75 |
| 2019 | The Medicine Buddha | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 75 |
| 2018 | Operation Finale | Adolf Eichmann | Film | 6.7 | 74 |
| 2018 | Watership Down | General Woundwort (voice) | TV | 6.9 | 74 |
| 2018 | All or Nothing: Manchester City | Narrator (voice) | TV | 7.2 | 74 |
| 2018 | Backstabbing for Beginners | Pasha | Film | 6.2 | 74 |
| 2018 | Inside the Operation | Self | Film | — | 74 |
| 2018 | Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché | Self | Film | 7.2 | 74 |
| 2018 | An Oral History of: Schindler's List | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 74 |
| 2018 | Intrigo: Death of an Author | Henderson | Film | 5.3 | 74 |
| 2018 | Schindler's List: 25 Years Later | Self | Film | — | 74 |
| 2018 | Who Killed British Cinema? | Self | Film | 5.0 | 74 |
| 2017 | War Machine | President Karzai | Film | 5.6 | 73 |
| 2017 | Security | Charlie | Film | 6.3 | 73 |
| 2017 | The Ottoman Lieutenant | Woodruff | Film | 6.0 | 73 |
| 2017 | Spielberg | Self | Film | 7.6 | 73 |
| 2017 | An Ordinary Man | The General | Film | 6.2 | 73 |
| 2016 | The Jungle Book | Bagheera (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 72 |
| 2016 | Collide | Geran | Film | 5.6 | 72 |
| 2016 | Of Dogs and Men | The Caller (voice) | Film | — | 72 |
| 2015 | Lip Sync Battle | Self | TV | 6.4 | 71 |
| 2015 | Self/less | Damian | Film | 6.4 | 71 |
| 2015 | Tut | Ay | TV | 7.1 | 71 |
| 2015 | The Walk | Papa Rudy | Film | 7.0 | 71 |
| 2015 | Knight of Cups | Storyteller (voice) | Film | 5.7 | 71 |
| 2015 | Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse | Drago (Voice) | Film | 5.4 | 71 |
| 2015 | Robot Overlords | Robin Smythe | Film | 4.8 | 71 |
| 2015 | Life | Jack Warner | Film | 6.0 | 71 |
| 2015 | Unity | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.6 | 71 |
| 2015 | Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 71 |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self - Guest | TV | 5.1 | 70 |
| 2014 | Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Merenkahre | Film | 6.2 | 70 |
| 2014 | Exodus: Gods and Kings | Nun | Film | 5.9 | 70 |
| 2014 | Garfunkel and Oates | Ben Kingsley | TV | 6.9 | 70 |
| 2014 | The Boxtrolls | Snatcher (voice) | Film | 6.7 | 70 |
| 2014 | Der Medicus | Ibn Sina | TV | — | 70 |
| 2014 | Stonehearst Asylum | Silas Lamb | Film | 6.9 | 70 |
| 2014 | Learning to Drive | Darwan | Film | 6.2 | 70 |
| 2014 | Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King | Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin | Film | 6.7 | 70 |
| 2014 | Walking with the Enemy | Regent Miklos Horthy | Film | 6.3 | 70 |
| 2014 | War Story | Albert | Film | 4.1 | 70 |
| 2014 | Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Self | Film | 4.8 | 70 |
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 | Trevor Slattery | Film | 6.9 | 69 |
| 2013 | Ender's Game | Mazer Rackham | Film | 6.6 | 69 |
| 2013 | The Physician | Ibn Sina | Film | 7.3 | 69 |
| 2013 | Muse of Fire | Self | Film | 6.5 | 69 |
| 2013 | A Birder's Guide to Everything | Lawrence Konrad | Film | 5.8 | 69 |
| 2013 | A Common Man | The Man | Film | 5.7 | 69 |
| 2012 | The Dictator | Tamir | Film | 6.2 | 68 |
| 2012 | The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès | Self | Film | — | 68 |
| 2012 | Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' | Self | Film | 6.0 | 68 |
| 2012 | Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime | Self | Film | 6.0 | 68 |
| 2012 | It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl | Narrator | Film | — | 68 |
| 2012 | The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo' | Self | Film | 6.0 | 68 |
| 2012 | Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard | Self | Film | — | 68 |
| 2011 | Hugo | Georges Méliès | Film | 7.2 | 67 |
| 2011 | The Desert of Forbidden Art | Voice | Film | 4.7 | 67 |
| 2010 | Shutter Island | Dr. Cawley | Film | 8.2 | 66 |
| 2010 | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Nizam | Film | 6.3 | 66 |
| 2010 | Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny | Narrator | Film | 6.4 | 66 |
| 2010 | Teen Patti | Perci Trachtenberg | Film | 3.8 | 66 |
| 2010 | Aral, the Lost Sea | Film | 2.7 | 66 | |
| 2010 | 1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets | Al-Jazari / Librarian | Film | 5.5 | 66 |
| 2009 | Journey to Mecca | Narrator | Film | 5.9 | 65 |
| 2008 | The Love Guru | Guru Tugginmypuddha | Film | 4.1 | 64 |
| 2008 | Elegy | David Kepesh | Film | 6.3 | 64 |
| 2008 | TransSiberian | Grinko | Film | 6.4 | 64 |
| 2008 | Fifty Dead Men Walking | Fergus | Film | 6.3 | 64 |
| 2008 | War, Inc. | Walken / The Viceroy | Film | 5.5 | 64 |
| 2008 | The Wackness | Dr. Squires | Film | 6.4 | 64 |
| 2007 | The Last Legion | Ambrosinus | Film | 5.6 | 63 |
| 2007 | The Ten Commandments | Narrator (voice) | Film | 5.6 | 63 |
| 2007 | You Kill Me | Frank Falenczyk | Film | 6.1 | 63 |
| 2007 | I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal | Self | Film | 7.7 | 63 |
| 2006 | Lucky Number Slevin | The Rabbi | Film | 7.5 | 62 |
| 2006 | Mais Bastidores de Hollywood | Self | Film | — | 62 |
| 2006 | Mrs. Harris | Herman Tarnower | Film | 5.9 | 62 |
| 2006 | 50 Films to See Before You Die | Self | Film | 8.5 | 62 |
| 2006 | The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel | Self | Film | — | 62 |
| 2006 | C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia | Self | Film | 7.5 | 62 |
| 2006 | The Life and Faith of CS Lewis | Film | — | 62 | |
| 2005 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self - Guest | TV | 6.8 | 61 |
| 2005 | Oliver Twist | Fagin | Film | 6.8 | 61 |
| 2005 | A Sound of Thunder | Charles Hatton | Film | 4.9 | 61 |
| 2005 | Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | Film | 10.0 | 61 |
| 2005 | BloodRayne | Kagan | Film | 4.1 | 61 |
| 2005 | Peace Is Every Step | Narrator | Film | 10.0 | 61 |
| 2004 | Thunderbirds | The Hood | Film | 5.1 | 60 |
| 2004 | Suspect Zero | Benjamin O'Ryan | Film | 5.6 | 60 |
| 2004 | Religion of the World | Narrator | TV | — | 60 |
| 2004 | Religion of the World | TV | — | 60 | |
| 2004 | Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust | Self | Film | 6.6 | 60 |
| 2004 | No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds | Self | Film | — | 60 |
| 2003 | House of Sand and Fog | Behrani | Film | 7.2 | 59 |
| 2003 | The Making of ‘Sneakers’ | Self | Film | 7.5 | 59 |
| 2003 | Unlikely Heroes | Narrator | Film | 7.8 | 59 |
| 2003 | Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land | Narrator | Film | — | 59 |
| 2003 | The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough | Film | — | 59 | |
| 2002 | Tuck Everlasting | Man in the Yellow Suit | Film | 6.7 | 58 |
| 2002 | Spooky House | The Great Zamboni | Film | 6.0 | 58 |
| 2001 | A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Specialist (voice) | Film | 7.1 | 57 |
| 2001 | Sexy Beast | Don Logan | Film | 7.0 | 57 |
| 2001 | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | Otto Frank | TV | 7.4 | 57 |
| 2001 | The Triumph of Love | Hermocrates | Film | 6.1 | 57 |
| 2001 | Islam: Empire of Faith | Narrator | TV | — | 57 |
| 2001 | The Making of Sexy Beast | Self | Film | — | 57 |
| 2001 | Islam: Empire of Faith | Self - Narrator | Film | 8.2 | 57 |
| 2001 | Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi" | Self - Interviewee | Film | 10.0 | 57 |
| 2000 | Rules of Engagement | Ambassador Mourain | Film | 6.3 | 56 |
| 2000 | What Planet Are You From? | Graydon | Film | 5.4 | 56 |
| 1999 | The Sopranos | Ben Kingsley | TV | 8.7 | 55 |
| 1999 | Rove | Self | TV | 7.5 | 55 |
| 1999 | Alice in Wonderland | Major Caterpillar | Film | 6.2 | 55 |
| 1999 | Parting Shots | Renzo Locatelli | Film | 5.5 | 55 |
| 1999 | The Confession | Harry Fertig | Film | 5.8 | 55 |
| 1999 | CNN Millennium | Narrator | TV | — | 55 |
| 1999 | A Force More Powerful | Narator | Film | 8.3 | 55 |
| 1998 | Crime and Punishment | Magistrate Porfiry | Film | 6.5 | 54 |
| 1998 | The Tale of Sweeney Todd | Sweeney Todd | Film | 5.7 | 54 |
| 1998 | Religions of the World | Narrator | TV | 8.0 | 54 |
| 1997 | HARDtalk | TV | 8.7 | 53 | |
| 1997 | The Assignment | Amos | Film | 6.4 | 53 |
| 1997 | Photographing Fairies | Rev. Templeton | Film | 5.7 | 53 |
| 1997 | Weapons of Mass Distraction | Julian Messenger | Film | 5.2 | 53 |
| 1996 | Twelfth Night | Feste | Film | 7.0 | 52 |
| 1996 | Moses | Moses | TV | 6.9 | 52 |
| 1995 | Species | Xavier Fitch | Film | 6.0 | 51 |
| 1995 | Joseph | Potiphar | Film | 8.2 | 51 |
| 1995 | Joseph | Potiphar | TV | 7.3 | 51 |
| 1994 | Death and the Maiden | Dr. Roberto Miranda | Film | 7.1 | 50 |
| 1994 | Liberation | Narrator | Film | 7.9 | 50 |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self | TV | 7.6 | 50 |
| 1994 | Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold | Self | Film | 10.0 | 50 |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Itzhak Stern | Film | 8.6 | 49 |
| 1993 | Dave | Vice-President Nance | Film | 6.7 | 49 |
| 1993 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Bruce Pandolfini | Film | 7.1 | 49 |
| 1993 | The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream | Film | — | 49 | |
| 1992 | Sneakers | Cosmo | Film | 6.9 | 48 |
| 1992 | Freddie As F.R.O.7. | Freddie (voice) | Film | 5.3 | 48 |
| 1991 | Bugsy | Meyer Lansky | Film | 6.4 | 47 |
| 1991 | The War That Never Ends | Pericles | Film | 5.0 | 47 |
| 1991 | Necessary Love | Film | 9.2 | 47 | |
| 1991 | Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 47 |
| 1991 | Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 47 |
| 1990 | The Fifth Monkey | Cunda | Film | 9.0 | 46 |
| 1990 | Romeo.Juliet | Father Capulet (voice) | Film | 7.5 | 46 |
| 1990 | Cellini: A Violent Life | Governor | Film | 5.4 | 46 |
| 1990 | The Children | Martin Boyne | Film | 4.9 | 46 |
| 1989 | Slipstream | Avatar | Film | 4.3 | 45 |
| 1989 | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Simon Wiesenthal | Film | 5.9 | 45 |
| 1989 | The Making of Slipstream | Film | — | 45 | |
| 1988 | Lenin: The Train | Lenin | Film | 6.4 | 44 |
| 1988 | Pascali's Island | Basil Pascali | Film | 6.4 | 44 |
| 1988 | The Secret of the Sahara | Sholomon | TV | 6.6 | 44 |
| 1988 | Without a Clue | Dr. John Watson | Film | 6.7 | 44 |
| 1988 | Lenin... The Train | Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin | TV | 6.0 | 44 |
| 1988 | Testimony | Dmitri Shostakovich | Film | 5.6 | 44 |
| 1987 | Dispatches | TV | 6.5 | 43 | |
| 1987 | Seitenblicke | Self | TV | 8.0 | 43 |
| 1987 | Maurice | Lasker-Jones | Film | 7.6 | 43 |
| 1985 | To Be Hamlet | Self | Film | — | 41 |
| 1985 | Turtle Diary | William Snow | Film | 6.3 | 41 |
| 1985 | Silas Marner | Silas Marner | Film | 5.9 | 41 |
| 1985 | Harem | Selim | Film | 4.4 | 41 |
| 1984 | Goldene Kamera | Self | TV | 5.7 | 40 |
| 1984 | Oxbridge Blues | Geoff Craven | TV | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1984 | Playing Shakespeare | TV | 9.7 | 40 | |
| 1984 | Camille | Duval | Film | 5.5 | 40 |
| 1983 | Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi | Self | Film | — | 39 |
| 1983 | Betrayal | Robert | Film | 6.1 | 39 |
| 1982 | Gandhi | Mahatma Gandhi | Film | 7.6 | 38 |
| 1982 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Frank Ford | Film | 8.0 | 38 |
| 1981 | Wetten, dass..? | Self | TV | 5.4 | 37 |
| 1981 | Entertainment Tonight | Self | TV | 4.3 | 37 |
| 1979 | Every Good Boy Deserves Favour | Ivanov | Film | — | 35 |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Frank Ford | TV | 6.0 | 34 |
| 1978 | Thank You, Comrades | Roberto Cibrario | Film | — | 34 |
| 1977 | The Velvet Glove | Chakravarti | TV | — | 33 |
| 1976 | Dickens of London | Dr. John Elliotson | TV | 7.3 | 32 |
| 1975 | The Love School | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | TV | — | 31 |
| 1975 | Antony and Cleopatra | Thidias | Film | 7.8 | 31 |
| 1974 | Playhouse | Ivanov | TV | 7.0 | 30 |
| 1973 | Wessex Tales | Lord Uplandtowers | TV | 7.0 | 29 |
| 1973 | Hard Labour | Naseem | Film | 6.7 | 29 |
| 1972 | Pebble Mill at One | TV | — | 28 | |
| 1972 | The Adventurer | Pierre | TV | 6.3 | 28 |
| 1972 | Fear Is the Key | Royale | Film | 5.9 | 28 |
| 1971 | Film '72 | Self | TV | 4.7 | 27 |
| 1963 | World in Action | Re-enactment | TV | 7.0 | 19 |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self - Presenter | TV | 7.0 | 9 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Duval | TV | 8.8 | 7 |
| 1948 | Bambi | Self | TV | 9.0 | 4 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | 7.1 | 0 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Audience Member | TV | 7.1 | 0 |
| The Way of the Wind | Film | — | — | ||
| Fortitude | Film | — | — | ||
| Mary | King Herod | Film | — | — |