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Saeed Jaffrey

Actor
8 January 1929 to 15 November 2015

An Indian actor who amassed around 200 screen credits, Jaffrey performed on Broadway becoming a fixture in British film and Bollywood. He delivered memorable performances in The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Chess Players (1977) and Gandhi (1982), and received a BAFTA nomination for his supporting role in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985).

Read Saeed Jaffrey's Guardian obituary here