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Acting

Ben Kingsley

Career: Active from 1972 to 2026, busiest in 2014 with 7 main titles.

Leading roles: 101
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: Schindler's List
93/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 125 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Ben Kingsley Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.7, average 5.4
Pop Culture
1.4, average 2.2
Situational Comedy
2.1, average 2.7
Cringe Humor
1.6, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Political Intrigue 13
Character-Driven 12
Character Study 9
Historical Drama 8
Period Piece 7
Psychological Drama 7
Psychological Thriller 6
Coming-of-Age 6
Moral Ambiguity 6
Social Commentary 6
Visual Spectacle 5
Biographical Drama 5

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

169

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

2 titles

as Sheikh Usman

as King Herod

2020s

18 titles · average score 65

Deep Water

59

as Rich

Young Washington

61

as Robert Dinwiddie

Wonder Man

78

TV show · as Trevor Slattery

The Old Stories: Moses

77

TV show · as Moses

Desert Warrior

42

as Emperor Kisra II

The Thursday Murder Club

65

as Ibrahim

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

74

as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)

Poison

81

as Dr. Ganderbai

Jules

71

as Milton Robinson

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

82

as Imdad Khan / Croupier

Dalíland

58

as Dalí

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

78

as Trevor Slattery

2010s

49 titles · average score 58

Night Hunter

39

as Cooper

Security

52

as Charlie

The Jungle Book

79

as Bagheera (voice)

Self/less

42

as Damian

The Walk

74

as Papa Rudy

Tut

57

TV show · as Ay

Exodus: Gods and Kings

45

as Nun

The Boxtrolls

68

as Snatcher (voice)

The Dictator

58

as Tamir

Hugo

80

as Georges Méliès

Shutter Island

73

as Dr. Cawley

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

52

as Nizam

2000s

31 titles · average score 55

Elegy

66

as David Kepesh

The Wackness

66

as Dr. Squires

Fifty Dead Men Walking

68

as Fergus

The Last Legion

36

as Ambrosinus

Lucky Number Slevin

64

as The Rabbi

BloodRayne

19

as Kagan

Oliver Twist

64

as Fagin

A Sound of Thunder

27

as Charles Hatton

Suspect Zero

40

as Benjamin O'Ryan

House of Sand and Fog

73

as Behrani

Sexy Beast

80

as Don Logan

Anne Frank: The Whole Story

77

TV show · as Otto Frank

1990s

34 titles · average score 66

Alice in Wonderland

41

as Major Caterpillar

The Confession

45

as Harry Fertig

The Assignment

65

as Amos

Moses

68

TV show · as Moses

Species

49

as Xavier Fitch

Joseph

81

as Potiphar

Joseph

74

TV show · as Potiphar

Death and the Maiden

76

as Dr. Roberto Miranda

Schindler's List

93

as Itzhak Stern

Dave

72

as Vice-President Nance

Sneakers

72

as Cosmo

Bugsy

75

as Meyer Lansky

1980s

19 titles · average score 67

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

67

as Simon Wiesenthal

Without a Clue

65

as Dr. John Watson

Pascali's Island

66

as Basil Pascali

Lenin... The Train

69

TV show · as Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin

Lenin: The Train

66

as Lenin

The Secret of the Sahara

67

TV show · as Sholomon

Testimony

63

as Dmitri Shostakovich

Harem

45

as Selim

Turtle Diary

75

as William Snow

Silas Marner

66

as Silas Marner

Betrayal

77

as Robert

Gandhi

82

as Mahatma Gandhi

1970s

14 titles · average score 67

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

as Ivanov

Thank You, Comrades

as Roberto Cibrario

The BBC Television Shakespeare

TV show · as Frank Ford

Dickens of London

TV show · as Dr. John Elliotson

The Love School

TV show · as Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Antony and Cleopatra

72

as Thidias

Playhouse

TV show · as Ivanov

Wessex Tales

TV show · as Lord Uplandtowers

Hard Labour

68

as Naseem

The Adventurer

TV show · as Pierre

Fear Is the Key

62

as Royale

Crown Court

65

TV show · as Jeremy Leigh

1960s

1 title

World in Action

TV show · as Re-enactment

1950s

1 title · average score 84

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Duval