Saeed Jaffrey – Bollywood, British Screen Legend Dies
Shatranj Ke Khiladi (The Chess Players) directed by Satyajit Ray
Saeed Jaffrey – Bollywood, British Screen Legend Dies
In a career that spanned more than half a century, Jaffrey made almost 200 screen appearances, working with directors including John Huston, James Ivory, David Lean, Richard Attenborough and Stephen Frears.
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Read moreHe was probably best known to Western cinema audiences for his roles in Gandhi, The Man Who Would Be King, A Passage to India and My Beautiful Launderette, but he had a long and distinguished Bollywood career, notably in Raj Kapoor’s Ram Teri Ganga Maili and Indra Kumar’s Dil. He also starred in Satyajit Ray’s The Chess Players.
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The Man Who Would be King (John Huston)
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My Beautiful Launderette – (written by Hanif Kureishi, directed by Stephen Frears)
Saeed Jaffrey was the first Indian to receive the Order of the British Empire or OBE.
He was married to actress-author Madhur Jaffrey, with whom he had three children.