Tom Alter
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Tom Alter (born 1952) is an Indian actor of American origin. He is most prominently known for his work in Hindi language Indian cinema. He is also a thespian and a television actor.
The son of American missionaries, Tom Alter's birthplace is Mussoorie[1] and he lives between the metropolis of Mumbai and the Himalayan hill station of Landour. As a child, he studied Hindi and Urdu and, as a result, has occasionally been referred to as the "Blue-eyed saheb with the impeccable Hindi".
Alter is uniquely talented for his fluency in Hindi and knowledge of Indian culture. He has worked for noted filmmakers like Satyajit Ray in Shatranj Ke Khiladi and Ismail Merchant. Alter portrayed Lord Mountbatten in Sardar, the 1993 film biography of Indian leader Sardar Patel, which focused on the events surrounding the partition and independence of India. Since then, Alter has played Indian characters in Indian television series. In the long-running Junoon, he played the sadistic mob lord Keshav Kalsi.
In 1996 he appeared in the Assamese language film Adajya.
Tom Alter's first cousin Stephen Alter is an author and teacher.
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