Person Details

Birthday: 1943-11-30 06:24:48

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, Sudafrica

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Movie Involvements: 26

TV Involvements: 3


Most Famous Work

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in the former snake pit of the zoo, hence the name) in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to a resounding reception.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 world, including New York, where he and Winston Ntshona won a Tony Award in 1975 for Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island. These two plays were presented in repertory at the Edison Theatre for a total of 52 performances. Nothing but the Truth (2002) was his debut as sole playwright and was first performed in the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. This play takes place in post-apartheid South Africa and does not concern the conflicts between whites and blacks, but the rift between blacks who stayed in South Africa to fight apartheid, and those who left only to return when the hated regime folded. It won the 2003 Fleur du Cap Awards for best actor and best new South African play. In the same year he was also awarded a special Obie award for his extraordinary contribution to theatre in the USA. Kani is executive trustee of the Market Theatre Foundation, founder and director of the Market Theatre Laboratory and chairman of the National Arts Council of SA. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Kani, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Marvel Studios Legends
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Marvel Studios Legends

(2021) T'Chaka (archive footage)
Captain America: Civil War
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7

Captain America: Civil War

(2016) King T'Chaka
The Lion King
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The Lion King

(2019) Rafiki (voice)
Black Panther
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Black Panther

(2018) T'Chaka
What If...?
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What If...?

(2021) T'Chaka (voice)
Wallander
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Wallander

(2008) Max Khulu
The Ghost and the Darkness
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Seal Team
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Seal Team

(2021) Brick (voice)

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Colonel Ulenga
2021 Brick (voice)
T'Chaka (voice)
T'Chaka (archive footage)
2019 Rafiki (voice)
N/A
Colonel Ulenga
2018 T'Chaka
2016 King T'Chaka
2014 Narrator
2012 N/A
Himself
2011 Julius Twala Snr.
General Cominius
2010 Old Gisani
2009 Sipho
2008 Max Khulu
Stone
1998 Bogle
1997 Ben
1996 Samuel
1995 Dr. Curtis
1994 Self
1992 N/A
School Principal
1990 N/A
1989 Othello
Julius
Jonas
1987 N/A
Khatana
1985 Willie
1981 Moses
Himself
1980 Melton
1978 George O'Brien
Sgt. Jesse Blake
1974 N/A
N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2009 Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2009 Writer
Original Story
Year Role Movie/Tv

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