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Roshan Seth

Actor | * 08/17/1942 (81) | Patna, Bihar (India)
Roshan Seth (born 2 April 1942) is a British-Indian actor, writer and theatre director who has worked in the United Kingdom, United States and India. He began his acting career in the early 1960s in the UK, but left acting the following decade and moved to India to work as a journalist. In the 1980s, he rose to prominence for his comeback performance as Jawaharlal Nehru in Richard Attenborough's Academy Award-winning film Gandhi, which brought him a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and reignited his interest in acting. He has since appeared in numerous British and American feature films and television programmes, with roles ranging from Chattar Lal in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Amit Rao in A Passage to India, Papa Hussein in My Beautiful Laundrette, patriarch Jay in Mississippi Masala and Dhalsim in ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Adventure | Comedies

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After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient p ...

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

PG

1984 | 3.6/5 | 1h 58min
Adventure, Action
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Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends in ...

Proof

PG-13

2005 | 3.2/5 | 1h 40min
Drama, Mystery
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In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the ...

Gandhi

PG

1982 | 3.8/5 | 3h 11min
Drama, History
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Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts. ...

Street Fighter

PG-13

1994 | 2.3/5 | 1h 42min
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
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Movies with Roshan Seth as Actor(49)

as Pramesh Singh2019 Dumbo
as Rupesh2018 Boogie Man
as Uncle Zaheer2017 Diana and I
as Farzad Akhtar2016 City of Tiny Lights
2015 The Lovers
as Ashok Sharma2013 Brahmin Bulls
as Anwar Jamal Kidwai2012 Ek Tha Tiger
as Mr Singh2011 Trishna
as Uncle Kamal Bhatia2008 The Cheetah Girls: One World
as Jawarharlal Nehru2007 The Last Days of the Raj
as Suresh Gupta2007 Amal
as Thapar2007 Guru
as Dasa2007 Broken Thread
as Professor Bhandari2005 Proof
as Pundit2005 The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
as Aldo Moro2005 Se sarà luce sarà bellissimo - Moro: Un'altra storia
as Noyen2005 Frozen
as Gopal2003 Cosmopolitan
as Mohan Rai2001 Monsoon Wedding
as Colonel Amir Salim2000 Vertical Limit
as Don Benito1999 Secret of the Andes
as Sheikh Kamal1999 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
as Ulla Khasi1998 Iqbal
as Pesi1998 Bombay Boys
as Gustad Noble1998 Such a Long Journey
as Nehru1997 Food for Ravens
as Kishan Singh1997 The Journey
as Prime Minister1996 Sengottai
as Sandip Tamar1995 Solitaire for 2
as Dr. Dhalsim1994 Street Fighter
as Beria1992 Stalin
as Ranveer1992 Electric Moon
as Mr. Humphry1992 Running Late
as Jay1991 Mississippi Masala
as Dr. Bubba1991 London Kills Me
as Houssein1991 Not Without My Daughter
as Ben Amir1990 Mountains of the Moon
as Lord Grafton1990 1871
as George1989 Slipstream
as Yamdoot1989 In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones
as The Emir of Hawa1988 Deadline
1987 Partition
as Defence Solicitor1987 The Happy Valley
as Mr. Pancks1987 Little Dorrit
as Hussein "Papa" Ali1985 My Beautiful Laundrette
as Amritrao1984 A Passage to India
as Chattar Lal1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
as Pandit Nehru1982 Gandhi
as Azad1974 Juggernaut

TV Shows/Series with Roshan Seth as Actor(9)

as Dr. Sharma2021 Behind Her Eyes
as Emperor Shah Alam2019 Beecham House
as Jameel Khan2003 Blue Murder
as Sheikh Kamal1999 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
as Haroon Amir1993 The Buddha of Suburbia
as Jawaharlal Nehru1988 The Discovery of India
as Sujit Pratkash1986 Casualty
as Narrator1983 Natural World
as Persuer1972 The Protectors

Full Name: Roshan Seth
Citizenships: United Kingdom (UK), India
Born: Monday, 08/17 1942 (August) in Patna, Bihar (India) (current age: 81 years + 253 days)
Zodiac sign: Leo (Chinese zodiac sign: Horse)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: The Doon School, University of Delhi, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Other names for Roshan Seth (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Rushan Seth"
"रोशन सेठ"
Roshan Seth frequently works together with these people:
George Lucas (6x, Crew)
David Attenborough (6x, Actor)
Laura Howard (6x, Actress)
Naseeruddin Shah (5x, Actor)
Saeed Jaffrey (5x, Actor)
Philip Whitchurch (5x, Actor)
Paul Barber (5x, Actor)
Hanif Kureishi (4x, Crew)
Ken McMullen (4x, Crew)
Geoffrey Bayldon (4x, Actor)
Mani Ratnam (4x, Crew)
Arundhati Roy (4x, Actress)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:12635, Added: 05/06/2018, Last updated: 04/11/2024