Marc Zuber
Zubair Ahmed Siddiqi (5 May 1944 – 28 May 2003), better known as Marc Zuber, was an Indian–British actor, who appeared in many British and Hindi films and television dramas.
Zubair Ahmed Siddiqi was born on 5 May 1944 in Lucknow, India. He moved to Britain with his family in 1951, joining his father who had become a BBC radio producer there, 2 years prior. Zuber grew up in London and went to Harrow Technical College, before training as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
He left drama school in 1968 and changed his name to Marc Zuber, on the advice of his agent and began his acting career in theatre with seasons in Chester, Bolton, Richmond, the Shaw Theatre, London and for two years at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He mostly appeared in small roles in film and television, including Coronation Street in 1990, in which he portrayed Mr Khan, but he also starred in the Hindi films, Yeh Nazdeekiyan (1982) and Kamla (1984), and played a leading role in Qatl (1986).
His film appearances include: The Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Wind and the Lion, The Sea Wolves, Shirley Valentine and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, while his television credits include: The Onedin Line, Doomwatch, The Regiment, The Changes, Space: 1999, Quiller, Blake's 7, The Sweeney, Minder (Aces High – and Sometimes Very Low), Buccaneer, The Enigma Files, The Chinese Detective, The Bill, Holby City and King & Castle.
He also worked with Indian actor Aditya Pancholi and Indian actress Persis Khambatta, in television film Shingora
Zuber died on 28 May 2003, in London, England at the age of 59, from a heart attack.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.2431 |
| Birthday | 1944-05-05 |
| Place of Birth | Lucknow, India |
| Also Known As |
1986
Foreign Body
4.643/7
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain a...
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Foreign Body
1976
Black and White in Color
6.409/44
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their pr...
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Black and White in Color
1984
Kanoon Meri Mutthi Mein
9/1
Film from K. Prasad
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Kanoon Meri Mutthi Mein
1987
Aaj
6/2
The movie is about a man who is trying to find his missing sister.
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Aaj
1982
Yeh Nazdeekiyan
8.75/2
Sunil Verma is the head of an advertising agency, and lives with a middle-class life with his wife, Shobna. Although Sunil gets to meet many beautiful...
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Yeh Nazdeekiyan
1975
A Private Enterprise
6.667/3
An ambitious Indian university graduate has to struggle to live his entrepreneurial dreams against both the British social structure and his own famil...
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A Private Enterprise
1975
The Wind and the Lion
6.522/204
At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure...
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The Wind and the Lion
1994
Two Oranges and a Mango
0/0
A brother and sister travel from London to India for the funeral rites of their estranged Sikh father. For her it is a chance to discover more about h...
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Two Oranges and a Mango
1986
Qatl
7.333/6
Rakesh (Sanjeev Kumar) is a blind man with an attractive wife Rohini (Sarika). Unknown to him, his wife is having an affair with another man Ranjeet (...
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Qatl
1988
Rukhsat
9.833/3
Arjun Rai lives a poor lifestyle in Bombay, and works as an auto mechanic for a living. He and wealthy Sapna are in love with each other, much to the...
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Rukhsat
1991
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
6.855/3561
Nobleman crusader Robin of Locksley breaks out of a Jerusalem prison with the help of Moorish fellow prisoner Azeem and travels back home to England....
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1985
Haveli
6/3
An undercover policeman attempts to solve a murder and ends up with more murders on his hands, a mysterious killer, and other people out to kill him.
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Haveli
1989
Shirley Valentine
6.278/108
Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while prepari...
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Shirley Valentine
1980
The Sea Wolves
5.88/100
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to un...
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The Sea Wolves
1985
Telephone
7/1
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Telephone
1987
Dak Bangla
4.75/4
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Dak Bangla
1991
Khooni Raat
10/1
A 1991 Indian horror movie.
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Khooni Raat
1984
Kamla
10/1
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Kamla
1986
Shingora
9/1
Hindi Indian movie
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Shingora
1971
Insaaf
0/0
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Insaaf
1973
Penny Gold
6/12
While investigating a murder case, a detective stumbles upon a rare-stamp swindle involving the victim's twin sister.
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Penny Gold
1980
The Merchant of Venice
7.286/7
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's fath...
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The Merchant of Venice
1990
Navy Seals
5.379/272
During a rescue mission, a team of Navy Seals discovers that a terrorist group has access to deadly, US-built Stinger missiles and must set out to loc...
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Navy Seals
2001
Skin Deep
0/0
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Skin Deep
1997
Divine Lovers
3.75/4
Plagued by strange dreams, a young architect in New York takes a hotel design job in India in the hopes of finding an explanation. When he arrives, he...
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Divine Lovers
1978
Something's Wrong
0/0
The businessman's private medical check-up is usually considered one of the perks of the job, but Trevor finds that all is not quite what it seems whe...
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Something's Wrong
1984
Bhavna
10/1
Bhavna is a story of a less privileged women. A lady who was living all alone in the city met a man named Ajay Kapoor in a garden, sketching. They bec...
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Bhavna
1980
Dying Day
8/1
A lonely man with punctilious habits listens to a tape cassette of ambient barroom sounds, which include the hushed tones of two men plotting to kill...
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Dying Day
1988
Deadline
6/5
In a small (fictional) emirate of the Persian Gulf a world-weary journalist is caught up in a coup where the Emir's son, under the influence of a poli...
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Deadline
2002
Bollywood Queen
5/12
A cross cultural romance set in London's East End about a young girl of Indian heritage.
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