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Saeed Jaffrey

1929 - 2015

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Saeed Jaffrey (8 January 1929 – 15 November 2015) 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 '90s, 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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Saeed Jaffrey is the 5,443rd most popular actor (up from 5,780th in 2019), the 731st most popular biography from India (down from 722nd in 2019) and the 125th most popular Indian Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Saeed Jaffrey ranks 5,443 out of 13,578. Before him are Estelle Winwood, Pino Caruso, Elçin Sangu, John Callen, Helen Shaver, and Guy Ecker. After him are John Bennett Perry, Jeannie Berlin, Victor Jory, Jeffrey Combs, Stephen Mangan, and Heather Langenkamp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Saeed Jaffrey ranks 421. Before him are Lode Wouters, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Daphne Hasenjäger, Michael D. Coe, Gerry Anderson, and Igor Novikov. After him are Kiichirō Furukawa, Francisco Zuluaga, Jerry Hardin, Win Tin, Chaim Potok, and Sergio Cervato. Among people deceased in 2015, Saeed Jaffrey ranks 368. Before him are Gottfried Diener, Jayakanthan, Bülent Ulusu, Mary Ellen Mark, Scott Weiland, and Surya Bahadur Thapa. After him are Grace Lee Whitney, Jonah Lomu, Hellmuth Karasek, James Best, Ivan Šantek, and Alberto Cardaccio.

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In India

Among people born in India, Saeed Jaffrey ranks 731 out of 1,861. Before him are Homai Vyarawalla (1913), Jeetendra (1942), Randhir Kapoor (1947), Anil Ambani (1959), Tim Severin (1940), and Krishna Prasad Bhattarai (1924). After him are Alivardi Khan (1671), Birju Maharaj (1937), Bano Qudsia (1928), Venkaiah Naidu (1949), Trisha (1983), and Mayawati (1956).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Saeed Jaffrey ranks 125. Before him are Abhishek Bachchan (1976), K. P. A. C. Lalitha (1947), Bhagyashree (1969), Sanjay Dutt (1959), Jeetendra (1942), and Randhir Kapoor (1947). After him are Trisha (1983), Amala Akkineni (1967), Dimple Kapadia (1957), Rani Mukerji (1978), Sivaji Ganesan (1928), and Tanuja (1943).

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