Ishaq Bux (15 June 1917 – 2 September 2000) was an Indian actor.[1]

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Ishaq Bux
in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Born	(1917-06-15)15 June 1917 Kanpur, India
Died	2 September 2000(2000-09-02) (aged 83) London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1957–87

His first screen appearance was in BBC TV's The English Family Robinson, in 1957.[2]

On stage, he appeared with the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic in Tony Harrison's Phaedra Britannica in 1975.[3]

He is best remembered by his roles of Omar in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and the fakir in Octopussy (1983).[4][5]

Bux was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in July 2000 and died in a London hospice on 2 September 2000, aged 83.^{[citation needed]}

Career

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Film

• Nine Hours to Rama (1963) - Gardener
• Man in the Middle (1963) - Indian bearer
• Inadmissible Evidence (1968) - Watson's Guest
• Leo the Last (1970) - Supermarket Manager
• The Raging Moon (1971) - Pakistani
• The Horseman (1971) - Amjad Kahn (uncredited)
• The Vault of Horror (1973) - Fakir (segment 3 "This Trick'ill Kill You")
• S*P*Y*S (1974) - Indian Agent (uncredited)
• Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) - The Transylvanians #4
• Double Exposure (1976) - First Arab
• Carry On Emmannuelle (1978) - Plane passenger (uncredited)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Omar
• The Missionary (1982) - Maharajah
• Privates on Parade (1982) - Sikh Doorman
• Octopussy (1983) - Fakir (uncredited)
• A Passage to India (1984) - Selim

Television

References

External links

• Ishaq Bux at IMDb
• Ishaq Bux at the BFI's Screenonline