 Art Malik made his film debut in Peter Brook's Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979), which was based on the memoirs of G.I. Gurdjieff (1866-1949). In 1984, he captured the attention of British and American audiences in the Goldcrest/HBO miniseries The Far Pavilions (1984). He also starred on the big screen as Mahoumed Ali in David Lean's A Passage to India (1984).
Subsequently, Malik appeared as a therapist in the American television medical drama, Hothouse (1988). His main film projects included the Bond film, The Living Daylights (d. John Glen, 1987), and Roland Joffé's City of Joy (1992), in which he starred alongside Patrick Swayze. Impressed by his performance in the latter film, James Cameron cast Malik in True Lies (US, 1994) without even meeting him first. After his first Hollywood blockbuster success, Malik alternated between Britain (Clockwork Mice (d. Vadim Jean, 1995)) and Hollywood (A Kid in King Arthur's Court (d. Michael Gottlieb, 1995)).
From the mid-1990s, Malik lent his voice to television documentaries including Sadhus-India's Holy Men (BBC, 1994), Secrets of Lost Empires (BBC, 1996), and The British Empire in Colour (ITV, 2002).
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