2027
Sonic the Hedgehog 4
as (voice)
2026
Deep Water
2026
Young Washington
as Robert Dinwiddie
2026
Wonder Man
as Trevor Slattery
(8 episodes)
2025
William Tell
as King Albrecht
2025
The Thursday Murder Club
as Ibrahim
2025
The King of Kings
as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
2024
The Killer's Game
as Zvi Rabinowitz
2024
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
2023
Jules
as Milton Robinson
2023
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
as Imdad Khan / Croupier
2023
Poison
as Dr. Ganderbai
2022
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
as Self
2022
Dalíland
as Dalí
2021
Locked Down
as Malcolm
2021
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Trevor Slattery
2021
Marvel Studios Legends
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)
(1 episode)
2021
Marvel Studios Assembled
as Self
(1 episode)
2019
Night Hunter
as Cooper
2019
The Red Sea Diving Resort
as Ethan Levin
2019
Spider in the Web
as Adereth
2019
The Medicine Buddha
as Narrator (voice)
2019
Perpetual Grace LTD
as Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown
(10 episodes)
2018
Backstabbing for Beginners
as Pasha
2018
Intrigo: Death of an Author
as Henderson
2018
Operation Finale
as Adolf Eichmann
2018
Who Killed British Cinema?
as Self
2018
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
as Self
2018
Inside the Operation
as Self
2018
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
as Self
2018
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Watership Down
as General Woundwort (voice)
(2 episodes)
2018
All or Nothing: Manchester City
as Narrator (voice)
(8 episodes)
2017
An Ordinary Man
as The General
2017
War Machine
as President Karzai
2017
The Ottoman Lieutenant
as Woodruff
2017
Security
as Charlie
2017
Spielberg
as Self
2016
The Jungle Book
as Bagheera (voice)
2016
Collide
as Geran
2016
Of Dogs and Men
as The Caller (voice)
2015
Self/less
as Damian
2015
Robot Overlords
as Robin Smythe
2015
The Walk
as Papa Rudy
2015
Life
as Jack Warner
2015
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
as Drago (Voice)
2015
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
2015
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Knight of Cups
as Storyteller (voice)
2015
Tut
as Ay
(3 episodes)
2015
Lip Sync Battle
as Self
(1 episode)
2014
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
as Merenkahre
2014
The Boxtrolls
as Snatcher (voice)
2014
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
2014
War Story
as Albert
2014
Walking with the Enemy
as Regent Miklos Horthy
2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings
as Nun
2014
Learning to Drive
as Darwan
2014
Stonehearst Asylum
as Silas Lamb
2014
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
(1 episode)
2014
Garfunkel and Oates
as Ben Kingsley
(1 episode)
2013
Iron Man 3
as Trevor Slattery
2013
Ender's Game
as Mazer Rackham
2013
A Common Man
as The Man
2013
The Physician
as Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
2013
A Birder's Guide to Everything
as Lawrence Konrad
2013
Muse of Fire
as Self
2012
The Dictator
as Tamir
2012
It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
as Narrator
2012
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
as Self
2012
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
as Self
2012
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
as Self
2012
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
as Self
2012
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
as Self
2011
Hugo
as Georges Méliès
2011
The Desert of Forbidden Art
as Voice
2010
Shutter Island
as Dr. Cawley
2010
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
as Nizam
2010
Teen Patti
as Perci Trachtenberg
2010
Aral, the Lost Sea
2010
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
as Narrator
2010
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
as Al-Jazari / Librarian
2009
Journey to Mecca
as Narrator
2008
TransSiberian
as Grinko
2008
Elegy
as David Kepesh
2008
The Love Guru
as Guru Tugginmypuddha
2008
War, Inc.
as Walken / The Viceroy
2008
The Wackness
as Dr. Squires
2008
Fifty Dead Men Walking
as Fergus
2007
The Ten Commandments
as Narrator (voice)
2007
You Kill Me
as Frank Falenczyk
2007
The Last Legion
as Ambrosinus
2007
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
as Self
2006
Lucky Number Slevin
as The Rabbi
2006
C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
as Self
2006
50 Films to See Before You Die
as Self
2006
Mrs. Harris
as Herman Tarnower
2006
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self
2006
The Life and Faith of CS Lewis
2006
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
as Self
2005
Oliver Twist
as Fagin
2005
A Sound of Thunder
as Charles Hatton
2005
BloodRayne
as Kagan
2005
Peace Is Every Step
as Narrator
2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self - Guest
(1 episode)
2004
Suspect Zero
as Benjamin O'Ryan
2004
Thunderbirds
as The Hood
2004
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
as Self
2004
No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds
as Self
2004
Religion of the World
as Narrator
(13 episodes)
2003
House of Sand and Fog
as Behrani
2003
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003
Unlikely Heroes
as Narrator
2003
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self
2003
Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
as Narrator
2002
Tuck Everlasting
as Man in the Yellow Suit
2002
Spooky House
as The Great Zamboni
2001
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
as Specialist (voice)
2001
Sexy Beast
as Don Logan
2001
The Triumph of Love
as Hermocrates
2001
Islam: Empire of Faith
as Self - Narrator
2001
The Making of Sexy Beast
as Self
2001
Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi"
as Self - Interviewee
2001
Islam: Empire of Faith
as Narrator
(3 episodes)
2001
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
as Otto Frank
(2 episodes)
2000
What Planet Are You From?
as Graydon
2000
Rules of Engagement
as Ambassador Mourain
1999
The Confession
as Harry Fertig
1999
Alice in Wonderland
as Major Caterpillar
1999
A Force More Powerful
as Narator
1999
Parting Shots
as Renzo Locatelli
1999
Rove
as Self
(1 episode)
1999
CNN Millennium
as Narrator
(10 episodes)
1999
The Sopranos
as Ben Kingsley
(1 episode)
1998
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
as Sweeney Todd
1998
Crime and Punishment
as Magistrate Porfiry
1998
Religions of the World
as Narrator
(13 episodes)
1997
The Assignment
as Amos
1997
Photographing Fairies
as Rev. Templeton
1997
Weapons of Mass Distraction
as Julian Messenger
1997
HARDtalk
1996
Twelfth Night
as Feste
1996
Moses
as Moses
(2 episodes)
1995
Joseph
as Potiphar
1995
Species
as Xavier Fitch
1995
Moses
as Moses
1995
Joseph
as Potiphar
(2 episodes)
1994
Death and the Maiden
as Dr. Roberto Miranda
1994
Liberation
as Narrator
1994
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
as Self
1994
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
(1 episode)
1993
Schindler's List
as Itzhak Stern
1993
Dave
as Vice-President Nance
1993
Searching for Bobby Fischer
as Bruce Pandolfini
1992
Sneakers
as Cosmo
1992
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as Freddie (voice)
1991
Bugsy
as Meyer Lansky
1991
Necessary Love
1991
The War That Never Ends
as Pericles
1991
Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
as Narrator (voice)
1991
Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
as Narrator (voice)
1990
The Children
as Martin Boyne
1990
The Fifth Monkey
as Cunda
1990
Cellini: A Violent Life
as Governor
1990
Romeo.Juliet
as Father Capulet (voice)
1989
Slipstream
as Avatar
1989
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Simon Wiesenthal
1989
The Making of Slipstream
1988
Lenin: The Train
as Lenin
1988
Without a Clue
as Dr. John Watson
1988
Testimony
as Dmitri Shostakovich
1988
Pascali's Island
as Basil Pascali
1988
The Secret of the Sahara
as Sholomon
(4 episodes)
1988
Lenin... The Train
as Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin
(2 episodes)
1987
Maurice
as Lasker-Jones
1987
Seitenblicke
as Self
(1 episode)
1987
Dispatches
1985
To Be Hamlet
as Self
1985
Harem
as Selim
1985
Silas Marner
as Silas Marner
1985
Turtle Diary
as William Snow
1984
Camille
as Duval
1984
Oxbridge Blues
as Geoff Craven
(1 episode)
1984
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Goldene Kamera
as Self
(1 episode)
1983
Betrayal
as Robert
1983
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
as Self
1982
Gandhi
as Mahatma Gandhi
1982
The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Frank Ford
1981
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
(1 episode)
1981
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
(1 episode)
1979
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
as Ivanov
1976
Dickens of London
as Dr. John Elliotson
(2 episodes)
1975
Antony and Cleopatra
as Thidias
1975
The Love School
as Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(5 episodes)
1974
Playhouse
as Ivanov
(1 episode)
1973
Hard Labour
as Naseem
1973
Wessex Tales
as Lord Uplandtowers
(1 episode)
1972
Fear Is the Key
as Royale
1972
Pebble Mill at One
1972
The Adventurer
as Pierre
(1 episode)
1963
World in Action
as Re-enactment
(1 episode)
1953
The Oscars
as Self - Presenter
(1 episode)
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Duval
(1 episode)
1948
Bambi
as Self
(1 episode)
1944
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
(3 episodes)
1944
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Audience Member
(1 episode)
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Mary
as King Herod
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The Way of the Wind
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Fortitude