Art Malik

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1952-11-13 (73 years old)

Place of Birth

Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Art Malik

Biography

Athar ul-Haque Malik (born 13 November 1952), known professionally as Art Malik, is a Pakistani-born British actor who achieved international fame in the 1980s through his starring and subsidiary roles in assorted British and Merchant Ivory television serials and films. He is especially remembered for his portrayal of the out-of-place Hari Kumar in The Jewel in the Crown at the outset of his career. He also portrayed Islamic extremist Salim Abu Aziz in True Lies.

Acting

1987

The Living Daylights

as Kamran Shah

2010

The Wolfman

as Singh

2008

Franklyn

as Tarrant

2006

1994

True Lies

as Salim Abu Aziz

1995

1995

2003

Tempo

as Maldonado

1994

Uncovered

as Alvaro

1992

City of Joy

as Ashok Ghatak

-

Wild Dubai

as Narrator

1998

Side Streets

as Bipin Raj

2013

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

as Sampooran Singh

2013

Diana

as Samundar

2001

Hotel!

as Radochek Zeigler

2005

The English Harem

as Saaman "Sam" Sahar

1985

2023

The Little Mermaid

as Sir Grimsby

1992

Hostage

as Khalim

1979

2002

Bond Girls Are Forever

as Kamran Shah (archive footage) (uncredited)

1979

The Reaper

as Dave

1980

Richard's Things

as Dr. Mustag

1986

Harem

as Tarik Pasha

2024

The Glassworker

as Tomas Oliver (Voice; English)

2009

Hotel

as Shahid Mazari

2016

The Infiltrator

as Akbar Bilgrami

2016

Mirzya

as Suchitra's Father

-

Hamlet

as Claudius

2015

Arthur & George

as Rev Shapurji Edalji

2013

Diana

as Samunder

1992

Turtle Beach

as Kanan

2017

Halal Daddy

as Amir Aziz

1999

Vicious Circle

as Harrison

2008

Dean Spanley

as Swami Nala Prash

1984

A Passage to India

as Mahmoud Ali

1993

Age of Treason

as Pertinax

2012

John Carter

as Zodangan General

2010

Sex and the City 2

as Shiekh Khalid

-

The Eye of the Sunrise

as Sir Lincoln Aubrey

2017

The Escape

as Kellan

Production

2024

The Glassworker

as Executive Producer

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