Saeed Jaffrey
Engaging actor known for his many film and TV roles which included parts in The Man Who Would Be King, My Beautiful Laundrette and Coronation StreetIt would have been easy to view the actor Saeed Jaffrey, who has died aged 86, as a playboy and bon vivant. Loquacious, irrepressible and mildly raffish, he recounted his peccadilloes in his autobiography, Saaed: An Actor's Journey (1999), with rueful charm. But a track r…