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John Kani

John Kani
  • Name: John Kani
  • Birthday: 1943-11-30
  • Place of birth: New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
  • Popularity: 7.528
Biography: ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   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in the former snake pit of the zoo, hence the name) in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to a resounding reception.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

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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