Person Details

Birthday: 1929-01-08 04:28:56

Death: 2015-11-15 04:28:56

Aliases: Sayeed Jaffery

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Maler Kotla, Punjab, India

Homepage:

Movie Involvements: 83

TV Involvements: 11


Most Famous Work

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Saeed Jaffrey OBE (born 8 January 1929) is an Indian-born British actor, who has done numerous British movies. He was born in Malerkotla, Punjab. His film credits include 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 has 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Saeed Jaffrey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Tales of the Unexpected
Average
7

Tales of the Unexpected

(1979) Dr Kunzru
Play for Today
Average
6

Play for Today

(1970) Gurjeet Singh Khera
The Protectors
Average
5

The Protectors

(1972) President's Aide
Play of the Month
Average
5

Play of the Month

(1965) Mr. Hamidullah
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Average
7

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

(2002) Akram Malik
The Troubleshooters
Average
5

The Troubleshooters

(1965) Sunil Seth
The Far Pavilions
Average
8

The Far Pavilions

(1984) Biju Ram
The Jewel in the Crown
Average
7

The Jewel in the Crown

(1984) Ahmed Ali Gaffur Kasim Bahadur, the Nawab of Mirat

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2009 Vikram Verma
2008 Mr. Farook
2005 C. P. Chopra
N/A
2002 The Great Gazuka
Akram Malik
Ibrahim
N/A
2001 Mr. Basmati
Sonia's father
1998 Dharamdas Bajaj
Mr.Walia
Arjun's Father
Komal's Father
Colonel Sadanand Dhongre
1997 Chander Nandkishore Kapoor Sharma
Mr. Sahay
Madanlal "Madan" Kapoor
Rai Bahadur - Raja's & Ramesh's father
Inspector General of Police
Mr. Sahni
Ashok
1996 N/A
Roshanlal
Madadgar
Vicky's Father (as Saeed Jafrey)
1995 Bhanu
N/A
Pooja's dad
Ramakant Sahay
Ranvir Singh
Prakash's uncle
1994 Nat Prabhakar
Father
Khamtruel Rimpoche (voice)
Vijay Shah
Bhanupratap Saigal
Mehmet Ali Cinnah
N/A
Police Commissioner
1993 Colonel Choudhry
SP Pratap Solanki
S. J
Mr. Mathur
N/A
1992 Suryakant Gujral
J.B.
Police Commissioner
1991 Mr. Mehra
Self
Lallu Bhai Solanki / Mr. Tikkoo / Lord Krishna
Seth Din Dayal
Khan Baba
Amir Khan
1990 Mr. Mehra
Shakuntala's Father
Ram Prasad
Vidya Charan
Chacha
N/A
Jas
1989 Vishwannath
N/A
N/A
Master Dinanath
N/A
Masterji (Guest Appearance)
Police Commissioner Arun Kashyap
1988 Hussein
Mr. Patel
Inder Sen Gujral
Karim Khan
N/A
1987 Defense Advocate
N/A
N/A
Brij Bhushan Saxena
Yakub Saeed
N/A
1986 Jadav Rana, the Hindu King
Pinto Ustad
Anand's chacha
1985 Lala Dayaluram
Shastri
Nasser Ali
Kunj Bihari
Mr. D'Silva
Rajhan
N/A
1984 Hamidullah
Narrator
Raaz
Biju Ram
Kishorilal
Ahmed Ali Gaffur Kasim Bahadur, the Nawab of Mirat
1983 Lalaji
Major Agarwal
Suri
N/A
1982 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Rana
N/A
1981 Lalan Mian
Prime Minister
Selim
1980 Frankie Bhoolabhoy
The Maharaja
Saeed
1979 Mukerjee
Taj
Dr Kunzru
1978 Servant (uncredited)
Sri Narain
Merchant
Gurjeet Singh Khera
1977 Mir Roshan Ali
1976 N/A
1975 N/A
Billy Fish
The Doctor
Mukarjee
Rafiq
1974 N/A
1972 President's Aide
N/A
1971 District Chief
1970 Merchant
Gurjeet Singh Khera
1969 Murad
1968 The Pitch-Man
1967 N/A
1965 Mr. Hamidullah
Sunil Seth
1964 Circus Worker
Narrator
1961 Narrator (voice)
1959 Narrator
Year Character Movie/Tv

Join the discussion

Please Log in to comment