Amrish Puri
Age: N/A | From: Jalandhar, Punjab, India
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Aliases: Amrish Lal Singh Puri , Amrish Lal Puri , Amrish Singh Puri , Mogambo , Mola Ram , अमरीश पुरी , آمریش پوری
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Jalandhar, Punjab, India
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Movie Involvements: 180
TV Involvements: 2
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Amrish Lal Puri (June 22, 1932 - January 12, 2005) was an iconic theater and film actor from India, who was a key player in the Indian theater movement that picked up steam in the 1960s. He worked with notable playwrights of the time, such as Satyadev Dubey and Girish Karnad. However, he is primarily remembered for essaying some iconic negative roles in Hindi cinema. He is most remembered for his role as Mogambo in the Hindi film Mr India (1987). As Mola Ram in the Hollywood film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), he crossed over to international cinema as well. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amrish Puri, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
The Discovery of India
(1988) Raza Khan
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(1984) Mola Ram
Gandhi
(1982) Khan
Mohabbatein
(2000) Major General Khanna
Taarzan: The Wonder Car
(2004) Kartar Singh
Tamas
(1988) Sardar Teja Singh
Ghayal
(1990) Balwant Rai
Lakshya
(2004) Brig. Gautam PuriActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Hasan Kairanvi | |
| 2005 | Bhairo Singh | |
| 2004 | Angar Chand | |
| N/A | ||
| Kartar Singh | ||
| Colonel Dugraj Singh | ||
| Police Commissioner Samar Singh | ||
| Saligrama Oberoi | ||
| Brig. Gautam Puri | ||
| Chief Minister Bhandarker | ||
| Mr. Panday | ||
| 2003 | N/A | |
| Jatta Singh Bedi | ||
| Brig. Sarfaroz Khan | ||
| Major Amrish Kaul | ||
| I.S.I Chief Ishak Khan | ||
| Vir Bhadra Singh | ||
| 2002 | Mr Chaddha | |
| Yashpal Chaudhary | ||
| Sadhu | ||
| Guruji | ||
| Prajapati | ||
| Himself | ||
| 2001 | CM Balraj Chauhan | |
| J.K. Malhotra | ||
| Ashraf Ali | ||
| Balram Singh | ||
| Kailashnath Malhotra | ||
| Suleiman Seth | ||
| 2000 | Major General Khanna | |
| The Sufi Saint | ||
| Yogi Grewal | ||
| N/A | ||
| ACP Ranjeet Singh | ||
| 1999 | Nahar Singh | |
| C.K. Oberoi | ||
| Suraj Singh Thapar | ||
| Jagmohan Mehta | ||
| Ret. Col. Mohandas | ||
| Balraj Dutt | ||
| Dayashankar | ||
| Thakur Dhayal Singh | ||
| 1998 | Col. Kewal Krishan Puri | |
| Baba | ||
| Mr. Abhyankar | ||
| Singhal | ||
| Jaspal Rana | ||
| Collector Bhim Singh | ||
| 1997 | Durgaprasad Bhardwaj | |
| Pilot Baba | ||
| Kishorilal | ||
| Appa Rao | ||
| Raja Thakur | ||
| Raja Saab | ||
| Mr. Malhotra | ||
| 1996 | Shambu Nath | |
| ACP Amritlal Bakshi | ||
| Dara | ||
| Gajraj Choudhary | ||
| Hemraj | ||
| Commissioner Suryadev Singh | ||
| Thakur Gajendra Singh | ||
| Mirza Khan | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1995 | ACP. Shivcharan | |
| Chaudhry Baldev Singh | ||
| Police Inspector | ||
| Don Qixote | ||
| Thakur Ugranarayan Singh | ||
| Ratan Seth | ||
| Thakur Ranvir Singh 'Daata Guru' | ||
| Thakur Jaswant Singh | ||
| Thakur Durjan Singh | ||
| Shobraj | ||
| 1994 | IGP Pathak | |
| Hukum Singh | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Ramakant Chaudhry | ||
| 1993 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Constable Purushottam Sathe | ||
| Indrajit Chaddha | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Tau | ||
| Ravan (Voice) (Hindi) | ||
| 1992 | Mahesar Dalal | |
| Anil Vyaghra & Sunil Vyaghra | ||
| Gopichand Verma | ||
| N/A | ||
| Dhirendra Pratap | ||
| Bhalla | ||
| Ajgar Jurrat | ||
| Vilasrao Chaudhary | ||
| 1991 | Nageshwar | |
| Kalivardhan | ||
| N/A | ||
| Raja Verma | ||
| Chuniya | ||
| Singhania | ||
| Vazir-E-Alla | ||
| Nahar Singh | ||
| Jaikal | ||
| N/A | ||
| Durjan Singh | ||
| Shamsher Singh / Rana | ||
| 1990 | N/A | |
| Chhotey Thakur Raghuvir Singh | ||
| Thakur Bhupendra Singh | ||
| Balwant Rai | ||
| Mahadrashtha | ||
| N/A | ||
| Magician Kamlaq | ||
| Gadra | ||
| Lala Gendamal | ||
| N/A | ||
| Thakur Sher Bahadur Singh | ||
| 1989 | Zaka | |
| CBI Inspector Ranveer Pushp | ||
| N/A | ||
| Bhujang / Bhairav Singh | ||
| Gopaldas | ||
| Naagar | ||
| Jai Kishan "J. K." | ||
| Chandidas Khurana | ||
| K.K. | ||
| Bhishambar Nath | ||
| N/A | ||
| Gangadhar Chaudhary | ||
| Khan | ||
| 1988 | Thakur Hansraj Singh | |
| Dacoit Daku Purkhiya | ||
| Marcelloni | ||
| N/A | ||
| Inspector Ratan Singh | ||
| Sardar Teja Singh | ||
| Diwan | ||
| Chandraprakash Singh (Vishal's dad) | ||
| Jagdish Chopra | ||
| Shahbaaz Khan | ||
| N/A | ||
| Anantananda Swamy | ||
| J.K. | ||
| Pashrutam Das / Din Dayal | ||
| Sardar Teja Singh | ||
| Raza Khan | ||
| 1987 | Raja Shamsher Singh / Shamshera | |
| N/A | ||
| Dharamdas | ||
| Mogambo | ||
| Raja Bahadur A.M. Singh | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Sher "Shera" Singh | ||
| Seth Dhanraj | ||
| N/A | ||
| Dharamdas | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1986 | Daga | |
| Durjan Singh | ||
| Bhairon Nath | ||
| Sher Khan /Dilawar Khan | ||
| Raizada Narsingh | ||
| Rana Vikram Singh | ||
| Nihavand Ruler | ||
| Thakur Digvijay Singh | ||
| Razoulli Al-Jabber Al-Nasser | ||
| Bhoop Singh | ||
| Bhim Singh | ||
| Persha | ||
| 1985 | Chakradev | |
| G. D. Thakral | ||
| Thakur Vijay Singh | ||
| Balram Singh | ||
| Chaudhary | ||
| Damodar Seth | ||
| Sohanlal Puri | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1984 | Self | |
| Gorkha | ||
| Mulchand Malhotra | ||
| Lakhan Singh / Thakur Suryapratap Singh | ||
| Balwant Singh Kalra | ||
| Swami Kashinath Singh | ||
| N/A | ||
| Bhanupratap | ||
| Mola Ram | ||
| Udaybhan Singh | ||
| Doctor of Philosophy | ||
| N/A | ||
| S.K. Vardhan | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1983 | Pasha | |
| John D'Costa | ||
| Faujdar Velankar | ||
| Mr. Ram Gupta | ||
| (The Voice of God) | ||
| Darvish | ||
| N/A | ||
| R.K. Chakravarty | ||
| 1982 | Khan | |
| N/A | ||
| J.K. 'JK' Verma | ||
| Jagawar Chaudhary | ||
| Agnihotri | ||
| Raja Bheesham Bahadur Singh | ||
| Joshi | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1981 | Gopal | |
| Jangirdar Joginder Singh | ||
| Don | ||
| Kishan Chand | ||
| 1980 | Vir Pratap Singh | |
| Balwant Singh | ||
| N/A | ||
| Rakka | ||
| Public Prosecutor Dushane | ||
| 1979 | N/A | |
| Kidnapper | ||
| Chandrika's Father | ||
| 1978 | N/A | |
| Bhairavmoorthy / Kondura | ||
| 1977 | Vinayak Kale | |
| Michael (uncredited) (voice) | ||
| 1976 | Mishraji | |
| Narrator | ||
| 1975 | Master | |
| Eldest Zamindar | ||
| 1973 | Chandre Gowda | |
| N/A | ||
| 1971 | Rehmat Khan | |
| Public Prosecutor | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1970 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Fanatic | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Sound
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Playback Singer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |