John Kani
Birthday
1943/11/30 (82 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
New Brighton, Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Also know as
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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in the former snake pit of the zoo, hence the name) in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to a resounding reception.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, c...Read more
Acting
(1996) The Ghost and the Darkness
as Samuel
(2021) Seal Team
as Brick (voice)
(1980) Marigolds in August
as Melton
(1978) The Wild Geese
as Sgt. Jesse Blake
(1981) A Sizwe Bansi Workshop
as Himself
(1990) The Native Who Caused All the Trouble
as ---
(1992) Sarafina!
as School Principal
(2010) White Lion
as Old Gisani
(2023) Murder Mystery 2
as Colonel Ulenga
(2008) The Bird Can't Fly
as Stone
(1985) 'Master Harold'... and the Boys
as Willie
(2019) The Space: Theatre of Survival
as ---
(1994) In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
as Self
(1981) The Grass Is Singing
as Moses
(1989) Options
as Jonas
The Man in the Mirror
as ---
(1987) Saturday Night at the Palace
as ---
(2011) Coriolanus
as General Cominius
(1987) An African Dream
as Khatana
(2024) Mufasa: The Lion King
as Rafiki (voice)
(2012) Jail Caesar
as Marius
(2016) Captain America: Civil War
as King T'Chaka
(2009) Endgame
as Oliver Tambo
(2018) Black Panther
as T'Chaka
(2019) The Lion King
as Rafiki (voice)
(1999) The Tichborne Claimant
as Bogle
(2019) Murder Mystery
as Colonel Ulenga
(1978) Victims of Apartheid
as George O'Brien
(2012) Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
as Self
(1997) Kini & Adams
as Ben
(1989) A Dry White Season
as Julius
(2009) Nothing But The Truth
as Sipho
(2011) How to Steal 2 Million
as Julius Twala Snr.
(1989) Othello
as Othello
(1995) Soweto Green
as Dr. Curtis
(2014) 1994: The Bloody Miracle
as Narrator
(1974) Sizwe Bansi is Dead
as Styles/Buntu
(2001) Final Solution
as Rev. Peter Lekota
(1986) Miss Julie
as John
(2023) Beyond the Light Barrier
as Narrator/Self
(2021) What If...?
as T'Chaka (voice)
(1992) African Skies
as ---
(1974) Playhouse
as Styles / Buntu
(2021) Marvel Studios Legends
as T'Chaka (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2008) Wallander
as Max Khulu
(1996) Silent Witness
as Dr. Phiri
(1970) Play for Today
as George O'Brien