John Kani
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in the former snake pit of the zoo, hence the name) in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to a resounding reception.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…
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Filmography
Acting (48)
Movies (40)
Mufasa: The Lion King
2024as Rafiki (voice)
Murder Mystery 2
2023as Colonel Ulenga
Beyond the Light Barrier
2023as Narrator/Self
Seal Team
2021as Brick (voice)
The Lion King
2019as Rafiki (voice)
The Space: Theatre of Survival
2019
Murder Mystery
2019as Colonel Ulenga
Black Panther
2018as T'Chaka
Captain America: Civil War
2016as King T'Chaka
1994: The Bloody Miracle
2014as Narrator
Jail Caesar
2012as Marius
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012as Self
Coriolanus
2011as General Cominius
How to Steal 2 Million
2011as Julius Twala Snr.
White Lion
2010as Old Gisani
Nothing But The Truth
2009as Sipho
Endgame
2009as Oliver Tambo
The Bird Can't Fly
2008as Stone
Final Solution
2001as Rev. Peter Lekota
The Tichborne Claimant
1999as Bogle
Kini & Adams
1997as Ben
The Ghost and the Darkness
1996as Samuel
Soweto Green
1995as Dr. Curtis
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
1994as Self
Sarafina!
1992as School Principal
The Native Who Caused All the Trouble
1990
A Dry White Season
1989as Julius
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1989as Jonas
Othello
1989as Othello
Saturday Night at the Palace
1987
An African Dream
1987as Khatana
Miss Julie
1986as John
'Master Harold'... and the Boys
1985as Willie
A Sizwe Bansi Workshop
1981as Himself
The Grass Is Singing
1981as Moses
Marigolds in August
1980as Melton
The Wild Geese
1978as Sgt. Jesse Blake
Victims of Apartheid
1978as George O'Brien
Sizwe Bansi is Dead
1974as Styles/Buntu
The Man in the Mirror
Television (8)
What If...?
2021as T'Chaka (voice)
Marvel Studios Legends
2021as T'Chaka (archive footage) (uncredited)
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
2009as Daddy Bapetsi
Wallander
2008as Max Khulu
Silent Witness
1996as Dr. Phiri
African Skies
1992
Playhouse
1974as Styles / Buntu
Play for Today
1970as George O'Brien
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