Biography
Saeed Jaffrey was a British-Indian actor. His career covered film, radio, stage and television roles over six decades and more than 150 British, American, and Indian movies. During the 1980s and 1990s, he was considered to be Britain's highest-profile Asian actor, thanks to his leading roles in the film My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and television series The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Tandoori Nights (1985–1987) and Little Napoleons (1994). He played an instrumental part in bringing together filmmakers James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, and acted in several of their Merchant Ivory Productions films such as The Guru (1969), Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978), The Courtesans of Bombay (1983) and The Deceivers (1988).
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Awards & recognition
- Padma Shri in arts · 2016
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 1995
- Filmfare Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1978
- Fulbright Scholarship
Filmography47 titles
Day of the Sirens
Beyond the Next Mountain
Aulad
Sauda
Aaina
Daata
Mashaal
Gandhi
The Far Pavilions
The Man Who Would Be King
Two's Company
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Death on the Nile
Rumpole of the Bailey
Aakhri Ghulam
The Chess Players
Callan
A Passage to India
Tales of the Unexpected
My Beautiful Laundrette
Dil
Ram Lakhan
Saagar
Masoom
Mohabbat
The Jewel in the Crown
Dilwale
The Razor's Edge
The Wilby Conspiracy
Yeh Dillagi
The Protectors
Chaalbaaz
Ram Teri Ganga Maili
When One Falls in Love
Mr In-Between
Trimurti
Sphinx
Judaai
English Babu Desi Mem
Just Ask for Diamond
Ek Hi Raasta
Suryavanshi
The Deceivers
Mad Dogs
Vijay
Snapshots
Albela