Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1943-11-30 (82 years old)
Place of Birth
New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Also known As
جان کانی
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in the former snake pit of the zoo, hence the name) in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to a resounding reception.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! Kan...
1996
as Samuel
2021
as Brick (voice)
1980
as Melton
1978
as Sgt. Jesse Blake
1981
as Himself
1992
as School Principal
2010
as Old Gisani
2023
as Colonel Ulenga
2008
as Stone
1985
as Willie
1994
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as Moses
1989
as Jonas
2011
as General Cominius
1987
as Khatana
2024
as Rafiki (voice)
2012
as Marius
2016
as King T'Chaka
2009
as Oliver Tambo
2018
as T'Chaka
2019
as Rafiki (voice)
1998
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1978
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1997
as Ben
1989
as Julius
2009
as Sipho
2011
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1989
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1995
as Dr. Curtis
2014
as Narrator
1974
as Styles/Buntu
2001
as Rev. Peter Lekota
1986
as John
2009
as Writer
2009
as Director
2009
as Original Story
1974
as Writer
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