Gandhi (1982) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Richard Attenborough.

Cast

• Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi
• Candice Bergen as Margaret Bourke-White
• Edward Fox as General Dyer
• John Gielgud as Lord Irwin
• Trevor Howard as Judge Broomfield
• John Mills as Lord Chelmsford
• Rohini Hattangadi as Kasturba Gandhi
• Martin Sheen as Vince Walker
• Ian Charleson as Reverend Charlie Andrews
• Harsh Nayyar as Nathuram Godse
• Athol Fugard as General Jan Christiaan Smuts
• Günther Maria Halmer as Dr. Herman Kallenbach
• Saeed Jaffrey as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• Geraldine James as Mirabehn
• Alyque Padamsee as Mohammad Ali Jinnah
• Amrish Puri as Khan
• Roshan Seth as Pandit Nehru
• Ian Bannen as Senior Police Officer Fields
• Michael Bryant as Principal Secretary
• John Clements as Advocate General
• Richard Griffiths as Collins
• Nigel Hawthorne as Kinnoch
• Bernard Hepton as G.O.C.
• Michael Hordern as Sir George Hodge
• Shreeram Lagoo as Gopal Krishna Gokhale
• Virendra Razdan as Maulana Azad
• Richard Vernon as Sir Edward Gait
• Prabhakar Patankar as Prakash
• Vijay Kashyap as Apte
• Nigam Prakash as Karkare
• Supriya Pathak as Manu
• Neena Gupta as Abha
• Shane Rimmer as Commentator
• Peter Harlowe as Lord Mountbatten
• Anang Desai as J.B. Kripalani
• Winston Ntshona as Porter
• Peter Cartwright as European Passenger
• Marius Weyers as Conductor
• Richard Mayes as Baker
• Alok Nath as Tyeb Mohammed

Crew

• Billy Williams — Director of Photography
• Richard Attenborough — Producer
• Ronnie Taylor — Director of Photography
• Richard Attenborough — Director
• George Fenton — Original Music Composer
• Terence A. Clegg — Producer
• Ravi Shankar — Original Music Composer
• John Briley — Writer

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