Ben Kingsley, Host of the Outlook Show, Keeps a Busy Schedule

Sir Ben Kingsley (left) co-stars in "Iron Man 3" with Robert Downey, Jr.

Academy Award-winning actor Ben Kingsley seems to be heading into the prime of his career at an age when most actors and actresses have retired. Kingsley, host of the Outlook with Ben Kingsley show, which is carried on public television stations across the United States, including some stations affiliated with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), will appear in a number of movies scheduled for release this year, as well as some feature films set to hit movie theaters in 2014.

Kingsley, the British-born actor who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1983 for his performance as Mohandas Gandhi in the 1982 biopic "Gandhi," has enjoyed a prestigious career in Hollywood, working alongside some of the best actors, actresses and directors in show business. His movie credits include two films that when the Academy Award for Best Picture, as well as work with Academy Award-winning directors. The film for which Kingsley received his Academy Award, “Gandhi,” won Best Picture in 1983, as did “Schindler’s List,” the 1993 Steven Spielberg-directed classic which took home the Oscar for Best Picture in 1994. This film, in which Kingsley plays Itzhak Stern, the Jewish accountant of the film’s protagonist, Oskar Schindler, played by Liam Neeson, regularly ranks as one of the greatest films of all time. Kingsley worked with Academy Award-winning director, Martin Scorsese, in 2010’s “Shutter Island.”

Catch Kingsley, host of the Outlook PBS show, in “Iron Man Three,” currently in theaters, or in one of the other movies he has coming out this year. Kingsley plays the role of “The Mandarin” in “Iron Man 3,” giving this villain great depth. Kingsley starred in “A Birder’s Guide to Everything” earlier this year. Later this year, Kingsley will appear in “Ender’s Game,” “Walking with the Enemy,” “A Doll's House” and “The Physician.” In between filming for the many projects in which he is involved, Kingsley finds time to film episodes of the Outlook Ben Kingsley show (http://outlooktelevision.com).