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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Making of 'The Glassworker'
2024
as Self
Immerse yourself in the extraordinary decade-long journey of bringing traditional 2D animation to life in a place where such a dream once seemed nearl...

The Glassworker
2024
as Tomas Oliver (Voice; English)
A young glassworker-in-training living with his pacifist father finds his apprenticeship upended by an impending war and the arrival of an army colone...

The Glassworker
2024
Executive Producer
A young glassworker-in-training living with his pacifist father finds his apprenticeship upended by an impending war and the arrival of an army colone...

The Little Mermaid
2023
as Sir Grimsby
The youngest of King Triton’s daughters, and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea, and while visiting the sur...

Halal Daddy
2017
as Amir Aziz
While managing a run down abattoir, young Muslim Raghdan Aziz stumbles through cultural chaos and generational conflicts, dealing with enraged fathers...

The Escape
2017
as Kellan
A man is offered the chance to escape to his perfect dream world - all he has to do is hand over everything he owns. Will he really abandon his family...

Mirzya
2016
as Suchitra's Father
Two star-crossed lovers must battle the forces which try to keep them apart at different timelines and at different world's.

The Infiltrator
2016
as Akbar Bilgrami
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.

Arthur & George
2015
as Rev Shapurji Edalji
In 1906, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, having lost his first wife, was overcome with grief; even Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson refused his call. It was only...

Diana
2013
as Samundar
During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana campaigns against the use of land mines and has a secret love affair with a Pakistani heart surg...

Diana
2013
as Samunder
During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana campaigns against the use of land mines and has a secret love affair with a Pakistani heart surg...

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
2013
as Sampooran Singh
The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the Indi...

John Carter
2012
as Zodangan General
John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctant...

Ghosted
2011
‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms ...

Sex and the City 2
2010
as Shiekh Khalid
Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda are all married now, but they're still up for a little fun in the sun. When Samantha gets the chance to visit one of th...

The Wolfman
2010
as Singh
Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonl...
Hotel
2009
as Shahid Mazari
A British agent in the war on terror discovers that he and a suspect have much in common.

Dean Spanley
2008
as Swami Nala Prash
Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or af...

Franklyn
2008
as Tarrant
Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic faith dominated metropolis of Meanwhile City, Franklyn weaves a tale of four...

Nina's Heavenly Delights
2006
as Raj Khanna
A feisty young woman returns to Glasgow to run her deceased father's curry house.
The English Harem
2005
as Saaman "Sam" Sahar
Tracy a young working class girl, who - against the wishes of her parents and racist ex-boyfriend - becomes one of three wives of West London Persian ...

Tempo
2003
as Maldonado
Jenny, a young American woman, moves to Paris and gets involved with Jack, who is seemingly the man of her dreams. However, he has a lot to hide and J...

Bond Girls Are Forever
2002
as Kamran Shah (archive footage) (uncredited)
Through vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former "Bond Girls" as interviewees (among them Dr. No's Ur...

The British Empire in Colour
2002
as Narrator
Weaving rare color footage, eyewitness accounts and interviews, this documentary crafts an unbiased portrait of the British Empire. Milestones such as...

Hotel!
2001
as Radochek Zeigler
The US president unexpectedly checks into a sleepy hotel in the heart of England, where he is held hostage by terrorists and, even worse, attended to ...

Vicious Circle
1999
as Harrison
Criminal Martin Cahill gets in trouble when a major robbery succeeds. He aims for more trouble when he tries to do a large art robbery

Side Streets
1998
as Bipin Raj
The lives of diverse characters in each of New York City's five boroughs overlap.

Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
1997
as Ramzi Ahmed Yousef
The incredible story of the events leading up to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York and the capture of the terrorists.

Booty Call
1997
Rushon is sexually pent-up and ready to take thing things to the next level with his girlfriend, Nikki. But when he calls for a date, she asks to make...

A Kid in King Arthur's Court
1995
as Lord Belasco
A Southern California kid named Calvin Fuller is magically transported to the medieval kingdom of Camelot through a crack in the ground caused by an e...

Clockwork Mice
1995
as Laney
When new teacher Steve Drake joins the faculty at a school for special-needs students, his unorthodox instruction methods raise eyebrows. But attitude...

True Lies
1994
as Salim Abu Aziz
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with ...

Uncovered
1994
as Alvaro
While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, pa...

Age of Treason
1993
as Pertinax
It's 69AD in Rome and streetwise hustler Marcus Didius Falco gets caught up in the death of the son of a man close to the new emperor, Vespasian. Hire...

Hostage
1992
as Khalim
A weary British spy retreats to a Buenos Aires hotel and recalls his last dirty job, complete with lover.

Year of the Comet
1992
as Nico
Year of the Comet is a 1992 romantic comedy adventure film about the pursuit of the most valuable bottle of wine in history. The title refers to the y...

City of Joy
1992
as Ashok Ghatak
Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsi...

Turtle Beach
1992
as Kanan
Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes ro...

Shadow of the Cobra
1989
Dramatisation of the story of notorious Indian serial killer Charles Sobhraj (b. 1944), who preyed on Western tourists throughout South East Asia duri...

The Living Daylights
1987
as Kamran Shah
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the...

Harem
1986
as Tarik Pasha
A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly ge...

Death Is Part of the Process
1986
as Indres

Transmutations
1985
as Fluke
When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating ...

A Passage to India
1984
as Mahmoud Ali
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a Bri...

Richard's Things
1980
as Dr. Mustag
Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in a...

Arabian Adventure
1979
as Mamhoud
An evil caliph (Christopher Lee) offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a prince if he can complete a perilous quest for a magical rose. Helped by ...
The Reaper
1979
as Dave
Jilted by a fickle former pupil Rachel sometime ago, school teacher Nick had yearned someday she would return to him as predicted in the Tarot Cards h...

Wild Dubai
N/A
as Narrator
Hundreds of species are uniquely adapted to the United Arab Emirates' harsh desert climate.
Hamlet
N/A
as Claudius
Set in a modern-day London of economic and political uncertainty, the story follows the intersecting themes of familial honor, moral duty and dynastic...

The Woman in Cabin 10
N/A
A journalist witnesses a passenger being thrown overboard a luxury yacht at night—only to be told that it didn’t happen as all the passengers and crew...

The Eye of the Sunrise
N/A
as Sir Lincoln Aubrey
After a chance encounter with a circus magician, the Famous Five set off to find the mysterious Eye of the Sunrise and keep it from falling into the w...