Saeed Jaffrey
Saeed Jaffrey OBE (8 January 1929 – 15 November 2015) was a British-Indian actor. His career covered radio, stage, television and film roles over six decades and more than a hundred and fifty British, American, and Indian movies. During the 1980s and 1990s he was considered to be Britain's highest-profile Asian actor, thanks to his leading roles in the movie 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 film makers 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).
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| Date of birth | 8 January 1929
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| Place of birth | Malerkotla, Punjab, India
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| Date of death | 16 November 2015
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Saeed Jaffrey is known for his role in the film My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) as Nasser.
He is also known for his role in the TV special The Oscars (2016) as Self - In Memoriam.
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