He was notable for films such as Shatranj ke Khiladi (The Chess Players) by … All rights reserved. The couple divorced in 1966. He successfully auditioned as an announcer at All India Radio. Veteran actor Saeed Jaffrey, who delighted fans all over the world with his masterful screen presence and performances, passed away. Cause of death:Cerebral Hemorrhage. The same year, he appeared in a limited run off-Broadway production of Twelfth Night at the Equity Library Theatre in the role of sea captain Antonio. He started his radio career as an English Announcer with the External Services of All India Radio on 2 April 1951 for a salary of ₹250 / month. His many honors included a BAFTA nomination for his turn as a successful entrepreneur in Stephen Frears' My Beautiful Launderette. [32] In summer 1956, Jaffrey resigned from his position as Radio Director at All India Radio. The statement added his funeral will take place in London in around two weeks. Deepest condolences on his passing away.”, Elizabeth director Shekhar Kapur, whose Bollywood directorial debut Masoom featured Jaffrey, posted on Twitter, “Goodbye dear Saeed. [29] Jaffrey and Bahadur, having fallen "madly in love", dated at Gaylord, a restaurant in Connaught Place. [18] At the local cinemas in Aligarh, he saw many Bollywood movies and became a fan of Motilal, Prithviraj Kapoor, Noor Mohammed Charlie, Fearless Nadia, Kanan Bala and Durga Khote. He attended University of Allahabad where he completed his post-graduate degree in history. [49] Madhur arranged for their children to live with her parents and sister in Delhi while she went to Mexico for the formal divorce proceedings. Veteran actor Saeed Jaffrey, a well-known name both in India and overseas, died in London on Sunday. | California Privacy Rights The veteran actor died in the early hours of 14 November 2015 at a London Hospital. He started his radio career as an English Announcer with the External Services of All India Radio on 2 April 1951 for a salary of ₹250 / month. Back in London, Jaffrey was given the opportunity to shoot in India for the next Merchant Ivory film, The Guru (1969). [2], In February 1951 Jaffrey travelled to New Delhi to try his luck as a cartoonist, writer or broadcaster. Saeed Jaffrey, Gandhi Saeed Jaffrey , the Indian actor whose credits include Gandhi , Death on the Nile and The Man Who Would Be King , died Sunday in London, The Associated Press reports. Saeed Jaffrey. He was 86 years old. Jaffrey appeared in many Bollywood and Hollywood movies, and appeared with actors including Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Pierce Brosnan. While visiting his father in Gorakhpur in the winter of 1945, Saeed discovered the BBC World Service on the shortwave radio. Actor Saeed Jaffrey dies at 86 Namrata Joshi Mumbai:, November 16, 2015 23:10 IST ... Jaffrey’s death was announced by his niece Shaheen Agarwal … In addition to appearing in more than 100 Bollywood titles, Jaffrey's international filmography included John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King (co-starring with Sean Connery and Michael Caine), Richard Attenborough's multiple Oscar-winning Gandhi and David Lean's A Passage to India, to name a few. © 2021 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. [3] The Jaffreys planned to go back to India, start a travelling company and tour with it. [40], Within a year of Jaffrey's joining the Actor's Studio in 1958, he was able to get Madhur admitted there too. [1] His career covered radio, stage, television and film roles over six decades and more than a hundred and fifty British, American, and Indian movies. He returned to London in the summer of 1968. by [17] Jaffrey and his family moved from one medical posting to another within the United Provinces, living in cities like Muzaffarnagar, Lucknow, Mirzapur, Kanpur, Aligarh, Mussoorie, Gorakhpur and Jhansi. He was 86. Race or Ethnicity:Asian/Indian. Also Read - Late Saeed Jaffrey honoured at Academy Awards 2016 Although the actual cause of Jaffrey's death is yet to be known but the loving … He played the role of Kate Hardcastle in the annual school play, Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer. In 1938, Jaffrey joined Minto Circle School at Aligarh Muslim University where he developed his talent for mimicry. [19], In 1945, Jaffrey gained admission to Allahabad University where he completed his BA in English literature in 1948 and MA in medieval Indian literature in 1950. [53] Later that year, he recorded a narration of the Kama Sutra titled The Art of Love for Vanguard Records. [37][38] The next day, they travelled to New York City where Bahadur was taken on as a tour guide at the United Nations while Jaffrey undertook public relations work for the Government of India Tourist Office. His wife name is Madhur Bahadur (m. … [3] He played an instrumental part in bringing together film makers James Ivory and Ismail Merchant[4][5][6] 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). Between 1959 and 1962 Bahadur and Jaffrey had three daughters, Meera, Zia and Sakina. Saeed Jaffrey, one of India’s most beloved actors, who also had a long career in the U.K., died on Sunday. [36] Midway through the tour, Jaffrey returned to Washington DC from Miami to marry Bahadur in a modest civil ceremony. FACEBOOK [44], In early 1966, Jaffrey returned to New York City to play the haiku-karate expert Korean police chief Kim Bong Choy in Nathan Weinstein, Mystic, Connecticut that opened on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. [28], His film credits include The Wilby Conspiracy (1975), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Shatranj Ke Khiladi (The Chess Players) (1977), Sphinx (1981), Gandhi (1982), A Passage to India (1965 BBC version and 1984 film), The Far Pavilions (1984), The Razor's Edge (1984), and My Beautiful Laundrette (1985). [22], Saeed was awarded his MFA in drama from the Catholic University of America in 1957. Born:8-Jan-1929. After a precocious start on radio and stage in India, Mr. Jaffrey settled … Privacy Policy | [45] Saeed also took up acting on stage. At Mussoorie, Saeed and his brother Waheed would often sneak out at night to watch British and American films at the local theatres. [9], In 1958 Jaffrey joined Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio and played the lead in an Off-Broadway production of Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding. His funeral was held a week later. [51] In order to pay the rent on his one bedroom flat in Chelsea, Jaffrey took a job as an assistant cashier at Liberty's, a department store selling luxury goods. [55] They remained married until his death in 2015. He was cast in the role of Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet. From January to May 1962, Jaffrey appeared at Broadway's Ambassador Theatre in a stage adaption of E. M. Forster's novel A Passage to India in the role of Professor Godbole. According to his reps, he started his own English theater company in Delhi. [39] Merchant approached Jaffrey with a proposal to put on a Broadway production of The Little Clay Cart starring the Jaffreys. Tributes have poured in since Jaffrey suffered a brain haemorrhage in London. Saeed Jaffrey was nominated for Best Actor in Supporting Role in 29th Filmfare Awards. His family, which announced the death, said the cause was a brain hemorrhage. He starred in popular cinema directed by Satyajit Ray, James Ivory and Richard Attenborough. Indian-born British actor Saeed Jaffrey, popular for movies like “Gandhi” and “Masoom”, passed away at the age of 86 in London following a “sudden brain haemorrhage”. [40] Jaffrey provided the narration for Ismail Merchant's Oscar-nominated short film, The Creation of Woman (1960). ... but after 10 years they called it quits and he married co-star Jennifer Jaffrey. [47] In November 1962 Madhur and Saeed appeared in Rolf Forsberg's Off-Broadway production of A Tenth of an Inch Makes The Difference. ... News of his death was first communicated via … Saeed has been part of more than 100 Hindi films. [13], In 1980 Jaffrey married Jennifer Sorrell, an agent and freelance casting director. Nyay Bhushan He… Died:15-Nov-2015. THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER is a registered trademark of The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. EMAIL ME. A statement issued by his family on Monday said he passed away peacefully on Saturday at a London hospital. He died on 15 November 2015 due to brain haemorrhage. Location of death:London, England. He was born on the 8th of January 1929. Saeed Jaffrey died at a hospital in London on 15 November 2015, after collapsing from a brain hemorrhage at his home. [44], In 1961 Jaffrey was forced to give up his job as Publicity Officer with the Government of India Tourist Office. Switching effortlessly from his clipped British accent in his foreign appearances to chaste Hindi and Urdu in his career at home, Jaffrey was well-known for his diverse roles which included mainstream Bollywood and offbeat fare.These included one of Bollywood's favorite comedies Chashme Buddoor (named after a colloquial term that refers to warding off the evil eye) to Satyajit Ray's Shatranj Ke Khiladi (The Chess Players). Saeed Jaffrey, the Indian actor whose credits include Gandhi, Death on the Nile and The Man Who Would Be King, died Sunday in London, The Associated Press reports. The pay for such roles was generally $10/hour. His younger siblings are his brothers, Waheed and Hameed, and his sister, Shagufta. Saeed Jaffrey the man with the gift of the gab and the glint of sophisticated grey hair. His brief filmography is given below. For television he starred in Gangsters (1975–1978), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Tandoori Nights (1985–1987) and Little Napoleons (1994). [31] In late 1955, Jaffrey won a Fulbright scholarship to study drama in America the following year. announcement of death: veteran indian born actor saeed jaffrey has died Monday 16 November 2015 PDF Print LONDON: The veteran Indian born actor Saeed Jaffrey OBE, who starred in more than a hundred and fifty films, has passed away peacefully in the early hours of November 14th at a London Hospital. News of his death was announced by his niece Shaheen Aggarwaal. In 1939 he played the role of Dara Shikoh in a school play about Aurangzeb. [26], In 1998 Saeed wrote an autobiography, Saeed: An Actor's Journey. More about Saeed Jaffrey. In 1995 he was awarded an OBE in recognition of his services to drama, the first Asian to receive this honour. [2] 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). Sakina Jaffrey is also an actress and acted alongside her father in the Canadian film Masala (1991). Gandhi (1982) The movie saw Jaffrey playing the role of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The remake of the film was released in the year 2013 and was directed by David Dhawan. He also attended the Staff Training Institute of All India Radio. She worked as a disc jockey at night. He flew to Bombay in December 1967 and met his daughters after a gap of three years. He later became the first Indian actor to tour and perform Shakespeare across the U.S. Veteran actor Saeed Jaffrey, a well-known name both in India and overseas, died in London on Sunday. He also appeared as Ravi Desai on Coronation Street and in Minder as Mr Mukerjee in Series 1 episode The Bengal Tiger.[54]. [16] His father, Dr Hamid Hussain Jaffrey, was a physician and a civil servant with the Health Services department of the United Provinces of British India. He played the role of the Cockney cook, Mason, in the annual school play, R. C. Sherriff's Journey's End. She refused but gave him a tour of RADA where she pointed out a young Peter O'Toole and other English stage actors who would later achieve prominence. He started his career as an English Announcer with the External Services of All India Radio on 2 April 1951. Tributes for the actor included a message from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who said in an official statement, “Saeed Jaffrey was a multifaceted actor whose flair and versatility will always be remembered. 7 poets — including Saeed Jones, Alex Dimitrov, and Patty Crane — meditate on the year we’ve had, the one ahead, and our dark, persistent past. READ | Saeed Jaffrey Death Anniversary: Five Best Movies Of The Veteran Actor. After his death in 2015, he was honoured with the fourth highest civilian award of India, Padma Shri. It said the actor collapsed at his London residence from a brain hemorrhage and never regained consciousness. By 1964, the Jaffreys' marriage had collapsed. [19], In 1941 at Mussoorie, Jaffrey attended Wynberg Allen School, a Church of England public school where he picked up British-accented English. In 1963, Jaffrey toured with Lotte Lenya and the American National Theater and Academy to perform Brecht on Brecht, a revue which was seen in Boston, Chicago, Milwaukee and Detroit. Jaffrey is survived by his wife Jennifer whom he married in 1980. "Jaffrey had collapsed at his London residence from a brain haemorrhage and never regained consciousness," it said. The movie went on to be nominated for Academy Awards in 11 categories and won eight of them. Actor Saeed Jaffrey, who starred in a number of Bollywood and international movies, has died at the age of 86. Terms of Use | He attended University of Allahabad where he completed his post-graduate degree in history. [27] Unity Theatre subsequently staged J. [21] The partition of India caused all of Saeed's relatives in New Delhi and Bannoor, Punjab to migrate to Pakistan. In 1965 Jaffrey was offered the role of the Hindu God Brahma in Kindly Monkeys at the Arts Theatre, London. The news of his demise was shared on Facebook by his niece Shaheen Aggarwal who … [52] In summer that year he played a role in The Coffee Lover, a comedy starring Alexis Smith that toured Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maine. Jaffrey bought a Raleigh bicycle for the commute. TWITTER Saeed Jaffrey in the Wilby Conspiracy. In the 1980s Jaffrey won substantial roles on British television in colonial dramas The Jewel in the Crown and The Far Pavilions plus the British Indian sitcom Tandoori Nights, Little Napoleons (1994) and the ITV soap Coronation Street. Poems for a new year. Saeed Jaffrey, (8 January 1929- 15th Nov 2015) was an actor who has appeared in numerous British and Indian movies. In summer 1964, Jaffrey along with some actor friends, created a multi-racial touring company called Theater In The Street, giving free performances of Molière's The Doctor Despite Himself in Harlem, Brooklyn and Bedford–Stuyvesant. Jaffrey had three daughters from his 1958–1964 marriage to Madhur Jaffrey: Zia, Meera and Sakina. [35] He was the first Indian to take Shakespearean plays on a tour of the United States. After graduation from Miranda House in 1953, Bahadur joined All India Radio. [5] In 1959, James Ivory, then a budding filmmaker from California, approached Jaffrey to provide the narration for his short film about Indian miniature painting, The Sword and the Flute (1959). She shared a video of his interview and spoke of his … [34] He played the lead in three of the plays put on by St. Michael’s Playhouse: Sakini, the Okinawan interpreter in The Teahouse of the August Moon; barrister Sir Wilfred Robarts in Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution; and Voice of God, with Gino, in The Little World of Don Camillo. November 16, 2015 7:06 pm. [11] The divorce was finalized in 1966. Started my career with u in Masoom. The Wilby Conspiracy (1975) [Anil Mukerjee]: Shot in the chest by Persis Khambatta. The actor was married to well-known actress, food writer and television personality Madhur Jaffrey with whom he had three children. No one knows the cause of his death, but his niece Shaheen Aggarwal prefers the world to remember him for the goodness that he spread. Bollywood actor Saeed Jaffrey, who starred in films including A Passage To India and Gandhi and TV soap opera Coronation Street has died at the age of … He was 86. [26] The first production was of Jean Cocteau's play The Eagle Has Two Heads, with Madhur Bahadur playing the role of the Queen's Reader opposite Saeed as Azrael. At that time, his maternal grandfather, Khan Bahadur Fazle Imam, was the Dewan or Prime Minister of the princely state of Malerkotla. Saeed Jaffrey was born in Maler Kotla, Punjab, India. He was 86. Actor Saeed Jaffrey, a veteran of dozens of Bollywood and international films, has died at the age of 86. Saeed Jaffrey was born in Maler Kotla, Punjab, India. After completing his Senior Cambridge there, Jaffrey attended St. George's College, Mussoorie, an all-boys' Roman Catholic school run by Brothers of Saint Patrick. He played Gremio in The Taming of the Shrew. In February 1951 Jaffrey travelled to New Delhi to try his luck as a cartoonist, writer or broadcaster. [50] Jaffrey played the small part of barrister Hamidullah in the BBC Television adaptation of A Passage to India. | Do Not Sell My Personal Information 8:31 AM PST 11/16/2015 A few days later, Jaffrey boarded the RMS Queen Elizabeth to sail across the Atlantic Ocean from Southampton to New York City.[33]. He was born on the 8th of January 1929. In early 1955, Bahadur left to study drama formally at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), a drama school in the UK. He has also appeared in many Bollywood films in the 1980s and 1990s. Sitemap | AdChoices At Aligarh, Jaffrey also mastered the Urdu language and attended riding school. His death was announced by his niece, Shaheen Agarwal, on Facebook on Sunday. Saeed Jaffrey, 86, breathed his last yesterday (November 15). [12][13][14] He was posthumously given the Padma Shri award in January 2016.[15]. He broke into Indian films with Satyajit Ray's Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977) for which he won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award in 1978. He appeared briefly in Rabindranath Tagore's The King of the Dark Chamber along with Madhur. Mehra Masani, the station director, eventually arranged for him to share a roo… Unable to afford a place to stay and having no relatives in the city, Jaffrey spent his nights on the bench behind the office building. Cant forget ur kindness n enthusiasm for your art n others.”. He had collapsed at his London residence from a brain haemorrhage and never regained consciousness. Saeed Jaffrey is a popular british actor who was born on 8 January 1929. His cameo role as the paanwala Lallan Miyan in Chashme Buddoor (1981) won him popularity with Indian audiences. His film credits include The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Shatranj Ke Khiladi (The Chess Players) (1977), Gandhi (1982). [11] He died at a hospital in London on 15 November 2015, after collapsing from a brain haemorrhage at his home. Saeed Jaffrey was born on 8 January 1929 to a Punjabi Muslim family in Malerkotla, Punjab region. [20] When India gained independence from Britain on 15 August 1947 Jaffrey heard Jawaharlal Nehru's inaugural speech on All India Radio as the Prime Minister of India, titled Tryst with Destiny. Birthplace:Maler Kotla, Punjab, British India. Mehra Masani, the station director, eventually arranged for him to share a room at the YMCA for ₹30 / month. Saeed Jaffrey (1929 -2015) Film Deaths [edit | edit source] The Man Who Would Be King (1975) [Billy Fish]: Beaten to death when he charges the attackers after it is discovered that Sean Connery is not a god. In September 1957, Bahadur and Jaffrey returned to Washington, D.C. where Jaffrey rehearsed for the 1957 – 58 season with the National Players, a professional touring company that performed classical plays all over America. He successfully auditioned as an announcer at All India Radio. News of his death was first communicated via a Facebook post by his niece Shaheen Aggarwal that was picked up by media both in India and the U.K. on Monday following an official statement from his reps at Jaffrey Associates. Saeed Jaffrey OBE (Punjabi: ਸਈਦ ਜਾਫ਼ਰੀ, سعید جعفری; Hindi: सईदजाफ़री) 1929 - 2015) was an Indian-born British actor, who worked in numerous British and Indian movies. [23][24] Unable to afford a place to stay and having no relatives in the city, Jaffrey spent his nights on the bench behind the office building. Favourable reviews of the play brought an offer from the BBC World Service to write, act and narrate scripts in Urdu and Hindi. Gender:Male. Saeed Jaffrey was the first of four children of Hamid Hussain Jaffrey and Hamida Begum. Saeed Jaffrey's most notable international performances are in The Man Who Would Be King, Death on the Nile, Sphinx and A Passage to India. He became the first Indian in a starring role in London's West End theatre when he played a Pakistani photographer in On A Foggy Day. The actor … [13] In spring 1956, he approached Bahadur's parents in Delhi for her hand in marriage but they refused because they felt that his financial prospects as an actor did not appear sound. [29] They would often discuss this idea with James Ivory and started writing a script in his brownstone on East 64th Street. 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He also attended the Staff Training Institute of All India Radio. Jaffrey took him home for dinner, where he met Madhur for the first time. Reportedly, Saeed Jaffrey was a writer and a mimicry artist too. The award-winning actor is best known for his roles in Gandhi, A Passage To India, Chashme Baddoor and Shatranj Ke Khiladi (The Chess Players) - … The cause of his death is not known. He flew to London on his way to America and proposed to Bahadur. In 1957 Jaffrey graduated from the Catholic University of America's Department of Speech and Drama and was selected to act in summer stock plays at St. Michael’s Playhouse in Winooski, Vermont. [46] He played the role of the Wigmaker in a three-week run of a theatre version of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon at Fort Lee Playhouse in New Jersey. Saeed Jaffrey passes away, a look at his journey. However, they left by 1962 because they felt the criticism offered by Lee Strasberg was too much for their sensitivity. He was 86. [7] He became a household name in India with his roles in Raj Kapoor's Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985) and Henna (1991), both of which won him nominations for the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award. His television career further enhanced his profile given his roles in British television dramas such as Tandoori Nights, The Far Pavilions, Gangsters and long running soap Coronation Street, among others. They lived on West 27th Street, between Sixth and Broadway. [41], In 1961 when The Sword and the Flute was shown in New York City, the Jaffreys encouraged Ismail Merchant to attend the screening, where he met Ivory for the first time. [28] Jaffrey arranged for Bahadur to join him there after she graduated from RADA. He went back to radio and joined The New York Times Company's radio station WQXR-FM where his first broadcast program was Reflections of India with Saeed Jaffrey. | EU Privacy Preferences. [42][43] They subsequently met regularly at the Jaffreys' dinners and cemented their relationship into a lifetime partnership, both personal and professional. Jaffery, 86, breathed his last yesterday. Remember the man with the suave looks, a lovely accent and an emphatic screen presence? At this time, he met Ismail Merchant who had recently arrived from Bombay to attend the New York University Stern School of Business. He is no more. [25], Along with Frank Thakurdas and 'Benji' Benegal, Jaffrey set up the Unity Theatre, an English language repertory company at New Delhi in 1951. Sexual orientation:Straight. The cause of his death was not revealed. [30] At Unity Theatre, Bahadur and Jaffrey acted together in Christopher Fry's A Phoenix Too Frequent, followed by Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Tennessee Williams' Auto-da-Fé, and William Shakespeare's Othello. 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