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Saeed Jaffrey OBE (8 January 1929 – 15 November 2015) was a British-Indian actor. [ 1] His career covered film, radio, stage and television roles over six decades and more than 150 British, American, and Indian movies. [ 2] During the 1980s and 1990s he was considered to be Britain's highest-profile Asian actor, thanks to his leading roles in ...
Saeed Jaffrey OBE ( Punjabi: ਸਈਦ ਜਾਫ਼ਰੀ, سعید جعفری; Hindi: सईदजाफ़री) 1929 - 2015) was a British-Indian actor who worked in numerous British and Indian movies. His film credits include The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Shatranj Ke Khiladi (The Chess Players) (1977), Gandhi (1982). His brief ...
Jaffrey was born in New York City, the youngest daughter of Indian-born parents, actress and food and travel writer Madhur Jaffrey, and actor Saeed Jaffrey. Her parents divorced when she was three years old, and she grew up estranged from her father, who subsequently moved to the United Kingdom. [ 2]
Jaffrey has three daughters from her marriage to Saeed Jaffrey: Zia, Meera and Sakina. Saeed Jaffrey's autobiography Saeed: An Actor's Journey (1998) describes their relationship in the early years of his life. [105] Zia Jaffrey is a part-time assistant professor of Creative Writing at The New School in New York City. [106]
The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 adventure film adapted from Rudyard Kipling's 1888 novella.It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Saeed Jaffrey and Christopher Plummer as Kipling (giving a name to the novella's anonymous narrator).
9 September 1976. ( 1976-09-09) –. 10 February 1978. ( 1978-02-10) Gangsters is a British television programme made by BBC television drama and shown in two series from 1976 to 1978. It was created by Philip Martin and starred Maurice Colbourne as John Kline, a former SAS officer recruited by law enforcement to become an undercover agent in ...
Syed Jaaved Ahmed Jaffrey (born 4 December 1962) is an Indian actor, dancer, [2] [3] and comedian who has appeared in Hindi films and television shows. He is the son of the comedian Jagdeep . He joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in March, 2014 and contested the 2014 Indian general election from the Lucknow constituency, finishing fifth.
The Deceivers (film) The Deceivers. (film) The Deceivers is a 1988 adventure film directed by Nicholas Meyer, starring Pierce Brosnan, Shashi Kapoor and Saeed Jaffrey. The film is based on the 1952 John Masters novel of the same name regarding the murderous Thuggee of India.