Cast & creator
Salman Rushdie
Best known for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, DAS!
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie FRSL is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
31
film credits
26
television credits
52
1974–2026 · acting roles
6.6
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (57)
Showing 57 of 57 credits
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015
The Daily Show
Self
1996
DAS!
Self
1991
Markus Lanz
Self
2008
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003
Morgenmagazin
Self
1992
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Salman Rushdie
2000
The One Show
Self - Guest
2006
The South Bank Show
1978
Have I Got News for You
Self
1990ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
Self
19893 nach 9
Self
1974
Beckmann
Self
1999
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Self
2018
Kulturzeit
self
1995Sabine Christiansen
Self
1998
Prisoners of Gravity
Self
1989
The Culture Show
Self
2004
Lo + plus
Self - Guest
1995Sternstunde Philosophie
Self
1998
Bridget Jones's Diary
Salman Rushdie
2001
Ruby
Self
1997
W1A
Self
2014
Shrink Rap
Self
2007Das Literarische Quartett
Self
2015
Orwell: 2+2=5
Self (archive footage)
2025
Then She Found Me
Dr. Masani
2007
Wintertijd
Self
1999
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
Self
2026Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
Novel
2026
365 Day Project
Self
2007
Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles
Self - Interviewee
2003
Bosch: The Garden of Dreams
Self
2016
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
Self - Writer
2019
The Hitch
Self (archive footage)
2014
Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women
Himself - Contributor
2018
Midnight's Children
Narrator (voice)
2012Midnight's Children
Screenplay
2012Midnight's Children
Book
2012Midnight's Children
Executive Producer
2012
Mylène Farmer : Sur les pas d'une icône
Self
2015
Geist, Geschäft und Party - 75 Jahre Frankfurter Buchmesse
Archive Footage
River of Fundament
Wake Guest
2014
Dirty Pictures
Self
2000
La Traversée du désir
Self
2009In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Self
1999
Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams
Self
2009The Beatles Revolution
Self
20009/11/03: A Day in the Life of New York
2005
The Satanic Verses Affair
Himself
2009
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
Self - Interviewed Guest
2024The Painter & The Pest
Self (Narrator)
1985
Der Unbequeme - Der Dichter Günter Grass
Self
2007Einübung ins Paradies - Nachdenken über 1989
Self
2019Next People
Creator
Concerning the Bodyguard
voice
2015Writers in Conversation: Edward Said with Salman Rushdie
Himself
1986