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Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley

Total Box Office:
 $1105.6M
Highest Rated:
100% Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Lowest Rated:
4% Bloodrayne (2006)
Birthday:
Dec 31
Birthplace:
Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
Bio:
Chameleon-like British actor Ben Kingsley has proven he can play just about anyone, from Nazi war criminals to Jewish Holocaust survivors to quiet British bookshop owners. For many viewers, however, he will always be inextricably linked with his title role in Gandhi, a film that won him an Oscar and…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

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MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
The Boxtrolls
  • Archibald Snatcher
-- 2014
Eliza Graves
  • Actor
-- 2014
The Physician
  • Ibn Sina
-- 2013
A Common Man
  • Actor
-- 2013
A Birder's Guide To Everything
  • Actor
-- 2013
Walking With The Enemy
  • Actor
-- 2013
79% Iron Man 3
  • The Mandarin
$409.0M 2013
Ender's Game
  • Mazer Rackham
-- 2013
19% Gambit
  • Actor
-- 2012
Number 13
  • Actor
-- 2012
The Dictator (Banned & Unrated)
  • Actor
-- 2012
57% The Dictator
  • Tamir
$59.6M 2012
62% It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl
  • Ben Kingsley
-- 2012
94% Hugo
  • Georges Méliès
$73.8M 2011
Beatles Stories
  • Actor
-- 2011
35% Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
  • Nizam
$90.8M 2010
88% The Desert Of Forbidden Art
  • Igor Savitsky
-- 2010
Teen Patti
  • Perci Trachtenberg
-- 2010
68% Shutter Island
  • Dr. Cawley
$125.0M 2010
60% Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny
  • Actor
-- 2010
88% Journey to Mecca
  • Narrator
-- 2009
88% Fifty Dead Men Walking
  • Fergus
-- 2009
91% Transsiberian
  • Grinko
$2.0M 2008
30% War, Inc.
  • Walken/The Viceroy
$0.5M 2008
69% The Wackness
  • Dr. Jeffrey Squires
$2.0M 2008
75% Elegy
  • David Kepesh
$3.5M 2008
14% The Love Guru
  • Guru Tugginmypudha
$32.2M 2008
China's Stolen Children
  • Narrator
-- 2007
79% I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
  • Actor
-- 2007
16% The Last Legion
  • Ambrosinus
$125.8M 2007
14% The Ten Commandments
  • Narrator
$0.8M 2007
78% You Kill Me
  • Frank Falenczyk
$2.3M 2007
4% Bloodrayne
  • Kagan
$1.6M 2006
51% Lucky Number Slevin
  • Schlomo
$22.4M 2006
Testimony - The Story Of Shostakovich
  • Actor
-- 2006
6% A Sound of Thunder
  • Director
  • Charles Hatton
$1.7M 2005
31% Valiant
  • Actor
$19.4M 2005
The Work of Director Jonathan Glazer
  • Actor
-- 2005
33% Mrs. Harris
  • Dr. Herman Tarnower
-- 2005
18% Suspect Zero
  • Benjamin O'Ryan
$8.6M 2004
Parting Shots
  • Actor
-- 2004
20% Thunderbirds
  • The Hood
$6.8M 2004
88% Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
  • Actor
-- 2004
75% House of Sand and Fog
  • Massoud Amir Behrani
$12.9M 2003
Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
  • Narrator
-- 2003
Unlikely Heroes
  • Narrator
-- 2003
Spooky House
  • The Great Zamboni
-- 2002
The Magic Never Ends - The Life and Work of C.S. Lewis
  • Actor
-- 2002
60% Tuck Everlasting
  • Man in the Yellow Suit
$19.0M 2002
All for Nothin'
  • Actor
-- 2002
86% Sexy Beast
  • Don "Malky" Logan
$6.0M 2001
73% A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  • Specialist/Narrator
$77.6M 2001
48% Triumph of Love
  • Hermocrates
$0.3M 2001
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
  • Otto Frank
-- 2001
36% Rules of Engagement
  • Ambassador Mourain
-- 2000
42% What Planet Are You From?
  • Graydon
-- 2000
Islam: Empire of Faith
  • Actor
-- 2000
Jesus and His Times
  • Actor
-- 2000
Millennium From CNN
  • Actor
-- 1999
33% Alice in Wonderland
  • Actor
-- 1999
The Confession
  • Actor
-- 1999
60% Oliver Twist
  • Fagin
$2.0M 1999
Parting Shots
  • Renzo Locatelli
-- 1998
Peace Is Every Step: Meditation in Action: The Life and Work of Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Actor
-- 1998
Crime And Punishment
  • Actor
-- 1998
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
  • Sweeney Todd
-- 1998
Weapons of Mass Distraction
  • Julian Messenger
-- 1997
100% Photographing Fairies
  • Rev. Templeton
-- 1997
From Tragedy to Triumph - The Jewish Experience 1933-1967
  • Actor
-- 1997
58% The Assignment
  • Amos
-- 1997
74% Twelfth Night: Or What You Will
  • Feste
-- 1996
Moses
  • Moses
-- 1996
36% Species
  • Xavier Fitch
-- 1995
Joseph
  • Actor
-- 1995
Liberation
  • Actor
-- 1994
84% Death and the Maiden
  • Dr. Roberto Miranda
-- 1994
94% Dave
  • Vice President Nance
-- 1993
97% Schindler's List
  • Itzhak Stern
-- 1993
100% Searching for Bobby Fischer
  • Bruce Pandolfini
-- 1993
Freddie as F.R.O.7 (Freddie the Frog)
  • Freddie the Frog
-- 1992
81% Sneakers
  • Cosmo
-- 1992
Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
  • Narrator
-- 1991
Children, The
  • Martin Boyle
-- 1991
88% Bugsy
  • Meyer Lansky
-- 1991
The 5th Monkey
  • Cunda
-- 1990
20% Fifth Monkey
  • Actor
-- 1990
Murderers Among Us - The Simon Wiesenthal Story
  • Simon Wiesenthal
-- 1989
20% Slipstream
  • Avatar
-- 1989
56% Without a Clue
  • Dr. Watson
-- 1988
64% Pascali's Island
  • Basil Pascali
-- 1988
90% Maurice
  • Lasker-Jones
-- 1987
Testimony
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
-- 1987
Ladakh - In Harmony With the Spirit
  • Actor
-- 1986
100% Turtle Diary
  • William Snow
-- 1985
Silas Marner
  • Silas Marner
-- 1985
Harem
  • Selim
-- 1985
Camille
  • Duval
-- 1984
100% Betrayal
  • Robert
-- 1983
89% Gandhi
  • Mahatma Gandhi
-- 1982
The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • Frank Ford
-- 1982
Dickens of London
  • Actor
-- 1976
Antony and Cleopatra
  • Actor
-- 1974
Fear Is the Key
  • Royale
-- 1973
Hard Labour
  • Naseem
-- 1973

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    1. The Mandarin: You don't know who I am. You don't know where I am and you'll never see me coming.
    From Iron Man 3. Submitted by Evan T (3 months ago)
    1. The Mandarin: True story about fortune cookies: they look Chinese, they sound Chinese, but they're actually an American invention. Which is why they're hollow, full of lies and leave a bad taste in the mouth.
    From Iron Man 3. Submitted by Keren S (3 months ago)

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Ridley Scott Expanding Exodus Cast Opens in new window
August 27

Ben Kingsley Iron Man 3 Interview Opens in new window
April 30

Ben Kingsley in Talks for Iron Man 3 Opens in new window
April 9, 2012

Ben Kingsley and Jena Malone Enter A Doll's House Opens in new window
November 2, 2011

Ben Kingsley Joins The Dictator Opens in new window
April 28, 2011

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