Saeed Jaffrey
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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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Full filmography
- Play for Today (1970) as Gurjeet Singh Khera
- Play for Today (1970) as Merchant
- Play for Today (1970) as Rafiq
- Tony Awards (1956) as Self - In Memoriam (archive footage)
- Minder (1979) as Mukerjee
- Tales of the Unexpected (1979) as Dr Kunzru
- BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Mr. Hamidullah
- Rumpole of the Bailey (1975) as Dr. Ghulam Rahmat
- The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2002) as Akram Malik
- Pebble Mill (1991) as Self
- The Protectors (1972) as President's Aide
- Callan (1967)
- Strangers (1978) as Narayan Bose
- The Jewel in the Crown (1984) as Ahmed Ali Gaffur Kasim Bahadur, the Nawab of Mirat
- HARDtalk (1997)
- The Troubleshooters (1965) as Sunil Seth
- Death on the Nile (1978) as Servant (uncredited)
- Gandhi (1982) as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
- Me & My Girl (1984) as Ranjit Sharma
- Strange Report (1969) as Ameen
- Liberation (1994) as Mohammad Ali Jinnah
- My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) as Nasser Ali
- Two's Company (1975) as The Doctor
- The Regiment (1972)