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Ben Kingsley
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Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:

Actor. (b. Dec. 31, 1943, Yorkshire, England, as Krishna Bhanji.) Prodigiously talented British leading man of Indian descent. Kingsley was born to an Indian physician and English fashion model, and as a young man gravitated toward the theater. He honed a subtle acting style in numerous Shakespearean productions, but his film debut, in Fear Is the Key (1972), was disappointing by comparison. One year later he had a small part as a Pakistani taxi company owner in Mike Leigh's Hard Labour Kingsley was content to remain on stage until winning the title role in Sir Richard Attenborough's epic Gandhi (1982). His subtle, heartfelt performance as the pacifist leader not only brought international fame, but a Best Actor Academy Award in his first major leading role. Kingsley has since appeared in many "smaller" pictures, including several written by Harold Pinter. Among them are Betrayal (1983), Turtle Diary, Harem (both 1985), Testimony, Maurice (both 1987), Pascali's Island, Without a Clue (a rare stab at comedy, playing a brilliant Dr. Watson to Michael Caine's inept Sherlock Holmes, both 1988), Slipstream (1989), The Children (1990), and Bugsy (1991, in an Oscar-nominated turn as gangster Meyer Lansky). Since then he has turned up in a number of films, in an impressive variety of character parts: as the voice of Freddie in the animated Freddie as F.R.O.7 the onetime student radical in Sneakers (both 1992), the timid but honest Vice President of the United States in Dave the quietly determined chess master in Searching for Bobby Fischer the title character's Jewish accountant (and conscience) in Schindler's List (all 1993), and the accused torturer in Death and the Maiden (1994). He also starred in the 1989 TV movie Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story as the fabled Nazi-hunter.

Ben Kingsley stared in:

Title Year Saw with/at: Scene On Rating
Gandhi 1982 with Peter L. 0000-00-00 ** 1/2
Pascali's Island 1988 With Jessica 0000-00-00 ** 1/2
Without a Clue 1988 With Jessica 0000-00-00 ***
Bugsy 1991 With Trish at Showcase Orange 0000-00-00 ***
Schindler's List 1993 Showcase Orange 0000-00-00 **** 1/2
Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 at Showcase Orange 0000-00-00 ****
Dave 1993 Don't Remember 0000-00-00 ** 1/2
What Planet are You From 2000 Showcase Orange 2000-03-04 1/2 *
A. I. Artifical Intelligence 2001 Showcase North haven 2001-06-29 **
Tuck Everlasting 2002 w/ Kendra & Suzy at Showcase Berlin 2002-10-19 ***
Lucky Number Slevin 2006 2006-10-15 *** 1/2
War, Inc. 2008 Suzy 2008-11-10 **
Shutter Island 2010 Suzy 2021-07-25 * 1/2
Hugo 2011 Suzy and Hanna at Wallingford Holiday 2011-11-27 *** 1/2
Iron Man 3 2013 2013-11-15 ** 1/2
Ender's Game 2013 Hanna 2014-07-04 **
The Boxtrolls 2014 Suzy and Hanna 2014-12-20 *** 1/2
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb 2014 Hanna 2015-02-27 ** 1/2
Self/less 2015 Suzy 2016-03-12 ***
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse 2015 Hanna 2015-03-13 ** 1/2
The Jungle Book 2016 Suzy and Hanna 2016-08-26 ** 1/2
Locked Down 2020 Suzy 2021-01-17 ** 1/2
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021 Suzy 2021-11-18 *** 1/2
Jules 2023 Suzy 2023-10-30 *** 1/2
Poison 2023 Suzy 2023-10-30 ***
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar 2023 Suzy 2023-10-29 ** 1/2