Nabil Shaban

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
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Birthday
Feb 12, 1953 (72 years old)

Nabil Shaban

Known For

Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor
1h 46m
Movie 2019

Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor

An original drama from the world of BBCtv's Doctor Who, featuring Sil, the ruthless alien entrepreneur from planet Thoros Beta, played by Nabil Shaban. Sil is worried, very worried, which doesn't keep his reptilian skin in the best condition! Confined in a cold detention cell on the moon, awaiting a deportation hearing for trial on drugs offences on Earth, he faces a death sentence if the application is successful and he is found guilty. And his employers at the Universal Monetary Fund aren t pleased either. Not at all. As time runs out and friends desert him, Sil must use all of his devious, vile, underhanded, ruthless, and amoral business acumen to survive. Can he possibly slime his way out of this one?

The Doctors: More Monsters!
6h 10m
Movie 2019

The Doctors: More Monsters!

This documentary includes the best in-depth interviews with NABIL SHABAN (Sil), CHRISTOPHER RYAN (Kiv, General Staal, Commander Stark), STEPHEN THORNE (Omega, Azal, Eldrad), TERRY MOLLOY (Davros), STUART FELL and JON DAVEY (who have both played monsters too numerous to list!) ever undertaken!

Deptford Graffiti
Movie 1991

Deptford Graffiti

George, wheelchair and hospital bound, is released by Cherry and a group of Hell's Angels.

The Fifth Gospel
0h 40m
Movie 1990

The Fifth Gospel

A documentary about disability and Christianity from Nabil Shaban and Tina Leslie.

Iranian Nights
0h 56m
Movie 1989

Iranian Nights

A Channel Four special presentation of the Royal Court Theatre 1989 production, London. with Paul Bhattacharjee, Nabil Shaban and Fiona Victory. "Iranian Nights" was a play written and produced as a direct response by writers and artists to the notorious Feb 14 1989 Fatwa (a sentence of death) from Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, placed on Salman Rushdie for his novel "The Satanic Verses", regarded by fundamentalist Muslims as blasphemous.

Billy's Christmas Angels
0h 30m
Movie 1988

Billy's Christmas Angels

Billy wants to play in a rock band with his brother Dave. This Christmas, Billy 's Angels come down to earth to help Billy find Dave, and reality, through Faith, Hope and Charlie.

Born of Fire
1h 24m
Movie 1987

Born of Fire

For reasons unknown, a flautist and an astronomer find themselves drawn to one another. But, when the flautist stumbles upon a secret regarding his late father, the two wind up in a celestial duel against the ancient Master Flautist for earth's future.

Raspberry Ripple
1h 40m
Movie 1986

Raspberry Ripple

A clever paraplegic man, haunted by visions of imaginary gangsters, becomes desperate to leave the "cripple" facility he's stuck in. To get out, he must outwit the facility's matron and the constant surveillance of one of his fellows.

Biography

Nabil Shaban was born in 1953 in Amman, Jordan and arrived in England when he was three for treatment for his osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle-bone disease). He spent the next six years in hospital and seven in a children's home. In 1980, he and Richard Tomlinson founded Graeae (pronounced Grey Eye), a professional theatre company of disabled performers. A writer and performer with many film and television credits, he is probably best known to television viewers for his role as ruthless businessman Sil in the Doctor Who stories 'Vengeance on Varos' and 'The Trial of a Time Lord' (BBC, 1985 + 1986).

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