Albert MosesKStJ (19 December 1937 – 15 September 2017)[2] was a Sri Lankan actor based in the United Kingdom. He is best known for playing the role of Ranjeet Singh, a student in Jeremy Brown's EFL class in the British sitcomMind Your Language and one of four students (along with Giovanni Capello, Juan Cervantes, and Anna Schmidt) to appear in all four series.[3]
Personal life
He was born on 19 December 1937 in Gampola, Kandy. He started to work at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya. Then he moved to Africa for employment and finally to London to learn drama and theatre. He was fluent in English, Arabic, Tamil, Sinhalese, moderate German and Sanskrit and excellent in fencing, dancing, singing, motor-cycle stunts, karate and judo.[3]
Moses died in September 2017 in London at the age of 79. He was buried at St. Andrew's Church in his native Gampola, Sri Lanka.[4]
Career
He had begun to act by the 1960s in India where he appeared in several Bollywood films, then produced and directed his first. From India, he moved to Africa, where he undertook work on documentaries. From the early 1970s, in Britain, Moses played small parts in several television series before being cast as Ranjeet Singh, a Sikh from Punjab, India, in the ITV sitcom Mind Your Language (1977–1979, 1986).[5] He acted in prominent roles in many theater productions such as Freeway at National Theatre, Phædra Britannica with Dame Diana Rigg and Long March to Jerusalem at Watford Theater. He also produced 13 episodes of Mind Your Language.[3]
His final film was The Snarling (2018),[6] in which he played tribute to his role in An American Werewolf in London (1981). The Snarling is dedicated to his memory.
