Badi Uzzaman, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Badi Uzzaman

Pakistani British actor

Date of Birth: 08-Mar-1939

Date of Death: 14-Jun-2011

Profession: actor, television actor

Nationality: United Kingdom, Pakistan

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Badi Uzzaman

  • Mohammed Badi Uzzaman Azmi (8 March 1939 – 14 June 2011), better known as Badi Uzzaman, was a Pakistani-British television and film actor.
  • According to The Guardian, Uzzaman was perhaps best known for his role as a hospital patient in the 1986 television series, The Singing Detective, opposite actor Michael Gambon.
  • He later appeared in numerous television roles during his career, often as a supporting character, including Torchwood, Inspector Morse, Coronation Street, Cracker, The Bill and Casualty.Uzzaman was born on 8 March 1939, in Phulpur, Azamgarh, British India.
  • His father worked for the railway industry, so he moved to the city of Abbottabad in present-day Pakistan.
  • He continued to move with his family depending on his father's job transfers, which included time in both Quetta and Lahore.
  • Uzzaman graduated from Government College, Abbottabad, in 1959, where he studied English and Urdu.Uzzaman began his career as a radio presenter in Pakistan.
  • He switched to acting, appearing in roles of Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) following the state-owned channel's launch in 1964.In 1984, Uzzaman was cast in Malia, a Pakistani film about a traveling fair with a strong, underlying theme against the martial law imposed by the government of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.
  • In the film, Uzzaman played five different characters.
  • The film was sharply rebuked by Zia's government, and had to be completed in London.
  • Uzzaman left Pakistan and was granted political asylum in the United Kingdom soon after Malia's release.
  • He became a British citizen.He is also notable for playing two television characters who were subjected to racially motivated attacks.
  • The first was in the 1989 Casualty episode "Victim of Circumstances", where he appeared as Bharat Patel, a shopkeeper who was beaten up by two skinheads who had attacked his son in an earlier assault.
  • In 1994, he appeared in the Cracker episode "To Be a Somebody (Part One)", in which he played the role of Shahid Ali, a shopkeeper who was the first victim of spree killer Albie Kinsella, played by Robert Carlyle. At the age of 72, Uzzaman died of a lung infection on 14 June 2011.

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