Art Malik

Art Malik

1952-11-13 Bahawalpur, Pakistan 51 Credits

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.

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The Making of 'The Glassworker'

The Making of 'The Glassworker'

2024

as Self

Acting

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

The Glassworker

2024

as Tomas Oliver (Voice; English)

7.3
Acting

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

The Glassworker

2024

Executive Producer

7.3
Producing

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

The Little Mermaid

2023

as Sir Grimsby

6.3
Acting

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

Halal Daddy

2017

as Amir Aziz

6.2
Acting

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

The Escape

The Escape

2017

as Kellan

Acting

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

Mirzya

2016

as Suchitra's Father

6.2
Acting

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

The Infiltrator

The Infiltrator

2016

as Akbar Bilgrami

6.7
Acting

A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.

Arthur & George

Arthur & George

2015

as Rev Shapurji Edalji

5.0
Acting

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

Diana

2013

as Samundar

5.6
Acting

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

Diana

2013

as Samunder

5.6
Acting

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

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

2013

as Sampooran Singh

7.4
Acting

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

John Carter

2012

as Zodangan General

6.3
Acting

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

Ghosted

2011

5.2
Acting

‘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

Sex and the City 2

2010

as Shiekh Khalid

6.1
Acting

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

The Wolfman

2010

as Singh

5.9
Acting

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

6.0
Acting

A British agent in the war on terror discovers that he and a suspect have much in common.

Dean Spanley

Dean Spanley

2008

as Swami Nala Prash

7.4
Acting

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

Franklyn

2008

as Tarrant

6.0
Acting

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

Nina's Heavenly Delights

2006

as Raj Khanna

6.8
Acting

A feisty young woman returns to Glasgow to run her deceased father's curry house.

The English Harem

2005

as Saaman "Sam" Sahar

3.3
Acting

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

Tempo

2003

as Maldonado

4.1
Acting

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

Bond Girls Are Forever

2002

as Kamran Shah (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.9
Acting

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

The British Empire in Colour

2002

as Narrator

5.0
Acting

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

Hotel!

Hotel!

2001

as Radochek Zeigler

4.5
Acting

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

Vicious Circle

1999

as Harrison

Acting

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

Side Streets

1998

as Bipin Raj

6.4
Acting

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

Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing

1997

as Ramzi Ahmed Yousef

6.0
Acting

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

Booty Call

1997

5.2
Acting

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

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

1995

as Lord Belasco

4.9
Acting

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

Clockwork Mice

1995

as Laney

4.8
Acting

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

True Lies

1994

as Salim Abu Aziz

7.1
Acting

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

Uncovered

1994

as Alvaro

5.6
Acting

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

Age of Treason

1993

as Pertinax

5.8
Acting

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

Hostage

1992

as Khalim

3.2
Acting

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

Year of the Comet

Year of the Comet

1992

as Nico

5.6
Acting

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

City of Joy

1992

as Ashok Ghatak

6.6
Acting

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

Turtle Beach

1992

as Kanan

4.8
Acting

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

Shadow of the Cobra

1989

7.0
Acting

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

The Living Daylights

1987

as Kamran Shah

6.5
Acting

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

Harem

1986

as Tarik Pasha

4.8
Acting

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

Death Is Part of the Process

1986

as Indres

Acting
Transmutations

Transmutations

1985

as Fluke

3.7
Acting

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

A Passage to India

1984

as Mahmoud Ali

6.8
Acting

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

Richard's Things

1980

as Dr. Mustag

5.0
Acting

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

Arabian Adventure

1979

as Mamhoud

5.8
Acting

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

Acting

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

Wild Dubai

N/A

as Narrator

Acting

Hundreds of species are uniquely adapted to the United Arab Emirates' harsh desert climate.

Hamlet

N/A

as Claudius

Acting

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

The Woman in Cabin 10

N/A

Acting

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

The Eye of the Sunrise

N/A

as Sir Lincoln Aubrey

Acting

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...