Ben Kingsley

ACTOR, SOUNDTRACK, PRODUCER

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Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. His father, Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, was a Kenyan-born medical doctor, of Gujarati Indian descent, and his mother, Anna Lyna Mary (Goodman), was an English actress. Ben began to act in stage plays during the 1960s. He soon became a successful stage actor, and also began to have roles in films and television. His birth name was Krishna Bhanji, but he changed his name to "Ben Kingsley" soon after gaining fame as a stage actor, fearing that a foreign name could hamper his acting career.Kingsley first earned international fame for his performance in the drama movie Gandhi (1982). His performance as Mohandas K. Gandhi earned him international fame. He won many awards - including an Academy Award for Best Actor. He also won Golden Globe, BAFTA and London Film Critics' Circle Awards. After acting in Gandhi (1982), Ben was recognized as one of the finest British actors.After his international fame for appearing in Gandhi (1982), Kingsley appeared in many other famous movies. His success as an actor continued. His performance as Itzhak Stern in the drama movie La liste de Schindler (1993) earned him a BAFTA nomination for best supporting actor. La liste de Schindler (1993) won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. During the late 1990s, Kingsley acted in many successful movies. He played Sweeney Todd in the television movie The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1997), for which he was nominated for the Screen Actors' Guild Award. His other notable role was as Otto Frank in the television movie Anne Frank (2001), for which he won the Screen Actors' Guild Award.In 2002, Kingsley was appointed Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's New Years Honours for his services to drama. In 2013, he received the BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment. That same year, he also received the Fellowship Award at the Asian Awards in London, England. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Pedro Borges

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Ben Kingsley’s flixes, followed by Google Play Movies compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Ben Kingsley on average has worked on 3 movies per year from 1973 to 2020. See the full graphs of the number of Ben Kingsley movies released per year from 2008 till 2020.

Top Genres

Ben Kingsley works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Documentary Genre flixes. 31% of Ben Kingsley movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Ben Kingsley worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Ben Kingsley has worked on is 6.6.

6.6 / 10

Ben Kingsley's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Biography,Drama,History
Schindler's List (1993)

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.

9/10195 min

Available in 13 platform(s).

Mystery,Thriller
Shutter Island (2010)

In 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.

8.2/10138 min

Available in 17 platform(s).

Documentary,Reality-TV,Sport
All or Nothing: Manchester City (2018)

Legendary coach Pep Guardiola leads his premiership football team through the 2017/18 season.

8.1/1050 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Biography,Drama
Gandhi (1982)

The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.

8.1/10191 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Walking With Destiny highlights Churchill's years in the political wilderness, his early opposition to Adolf Hitler and Nazism, and his support for Jews under threat by the Nazi regime. As ...

7.7/10101 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Thriller
Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Boss. Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get them before they get him.

7.7/10110 min

Available in 16 platform(s).

Documentary,History
Unlikely Heroes (2003)

For most, the idea of Jewish resistance or defiance during the Holocaust is limited to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and a few isolated acts throughout WWII. "Unlikely Heroes", narrated by Sir...

7.7/10120 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Adventure,Biography,Documentary
The Desert of Forbidden Art (2010)

Risking being denounced as an 'enemy of the people,' Igor Savitsky rescues 40,000 forbidden fellow artists' works and creates in a far desert of Soviet Uzbekistan a museum now worth millions.

7.6/1080 min

Available in 4 platform(s).