Amrish Puri

Amrish Puri, the actor and theatre star Amrish Puri

Amrish Puri (22 June 1932 – 12 January 2005) was an Indian actor who was an important figure in Indian theatre and cinema. Amrish Puri is remembered for playing iconic villainous roles in Punjabi, Hindi cinema as well as other Indian and international film industries. To Indian audiences Amrish Puri is the most remembered for his role as Mogambo in Shekhar Kapur's Hindi film Mr. India (1987), and to Western audiences Amrish Puri is best known as Mola Ram in Steven Spielberg's Hollywood film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).

While Amrish Puri predominantly worked in Hindi-language films, Amrish Puri had also appeared in Punjabi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and Marathi language films. Puri won three Filmfare Awards for Best Supporting Actor.

His grandson,[4] Vardhan Puri, is also an actor in Indian Cinema, having written and starred in a film produced by a production house named after Puri, Amrish Puri Films.