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Saeed Jaffrey

1929 - 2015

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Saeed Jaffrey (8 January 1929 – 15 November 2015) was a British-Indian actor. His career covered film, radio, stage and television roles over six decades and more than 150 British, American, and Indian movies. During the 1980s and '90s, 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saeed Jaffrey has received more than 5,403,674 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Saeed Jaffrey is the 5,783rd most popular actor (down from 5,422nd in 2019), the 722nd most popular biography from India (down from 610th in 2019) and the 103rd most popular Indian Actor.

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  • 5.4M

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  • 45.64

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  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Saeed Jaffrey ranks 5,783 out of 13,578. Before him are Susan Peters, Jeannie Berlin, Suzy Parker, Kelly Curtis, Judy Tyler, and Phillip Rhee. After him are Jeremy Piven, Ashley Greene, Glynis Barber, Molly Cheek, Micky Dolenz, and Wang Leehom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Saeed Jaffrey ranks 441. Before him are Eugène Parlier, Pentti Hämäläinen, Frans Andriessen, Raymond Bellot, Mario Francesco Pompedda, and Yvette Williams. After him are Keijo Liinamaa, Olga Tass, Hal Blaine, Giacomo Capuzzi, Alfredo Pérez, and Ferdinand Oyono. Among people deceased in 2015, Saeed Jaffrey ranks 366. Before him are Andy White, Raymond Gosling, Sam Simon, Gennadiy Seleznyov, Steve Strange, and Ildikó Schwarczenberger. After him are David Canary, Jouko Törmänen, Vittore Gottardi, Oganes Zanazanyan, Martin Litchfield West, and Herberto Hélder.

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In India

Among people born in India, Saeed Jaffrey ranks 722 out of 1,861. Before him are Sunil Chhetri (1984), S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940), Shyam Benegal (1934), P. T. Usha (1964), Feroz Khan (1939), and Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947). After him are Nirmala Sitharaman (1959), Peter Sarstedt (1941), John Abraham (1972), S. M. Krishna (1932), Usha Mehta (1920), and Arunachalam Muruganantham (1961).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Saeed Jaffrey ranks 103. Before him are Rakhee Gulzar (1947), Vijay Amritraj (1953), Soumitra Chatterjee (1935), Govinda (1963), Danny Denzongpa (1948), and Feroz Khan (1939). After him are John Abraham (1972), Sharman Joshi (1979), Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1923), Suniel Shetty (1961), Divya Bharti (1974), and Padmini (1932).

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