People
John Kani
Biography:
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Bonsile John Kani (born 1943) is a South African actor, director and playwright. He was born in New Brighton, South Africa. Kani joined The Serpent Players (a group of actors whose first performance was in the former snake pit of the zoo, hence the name) in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to a resounding reception. These were followed by the more famous Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island, co-written with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona, in the early 1970s. He also received an Olivier nomination for his role in My Children My Africa! Kani's work has been widely performed around the... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Mufasa: The Lion King as Rafiki (voice) | 2024-12-18 |
Murder Mystery 2 as Colonel Ulenga | 2023-03-28 |
Seal Team as Brick (voice) | 2021-10-28 |
The Lion King as Rafiki (voice) | 2019-07-12 |
The Space: Theatre of Survival | 2019-06-07 |
Murder Mystery as Colonel Ulenga | 2019-05-25 |
Black Panther as T'Chaka | 2018-02-13 |
Captain America: Civil War as King T'Chaka | 2016-04-27 |
1994: The Bloody Miracle as Narrator | 2014-01-01 |
Jail Caesar | 2012-06-28 |
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard as Himself | 2012-05-28 |
How to Steal 2 Million as Julius Twala Snr. | 2011-09-02 |
Coriolanus as General Cominius | 2011-02-14 |
White Lion as Old Gisani | 2010-02-19 |
Nothing But The Truth as Sipho | 2009-11-01 |
Endgame as Oliver Tambo | 2009-01-18 |
The Bird Can't Fly as Stone | 2008-01-03 |
The Tichborne Claimant as Bogle | 1998-08-01 |
Kini & Adams as Ben | 1997-05-10 |
The Ghost and the Darkness as Samuel | 1996-10-11 |
Soweto Green as Dr. Curtis | 1995-01-01 |
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid as Self | 1994-02-18 |
Sarafina! as School Principal | 1992-09-18 |
The Native Who Caused All the Trouble | 1990-05-11 |
Othello as Othello | 1989-12-27 |
A Dry White Season as Julius | 1989-09-20 |
Options as Jonas | 1989-05-27 |
Saturday Night at the Palace | 1987-12-12 |
An African Dream as Khatana | 1987-01-01 |
'Master Harold'... and the Boys as Willie | 1985-01-01 |
The Grass Is Singing as Moses | 1981-08-30 |
A Sizwe Bansi Workshop as Himself | 1981-01-01 |
Marigolds in August as Melton | 1980-12-31 |
Victims of Apartheid as George O'Brien | 1978-10-24 |
The Wild Geese as Sgt. Jesse Blake | 1978-06-28 |
Sizwe Bansi is Dead as Styles/Buntu | 1974-03-13 |