John Kani

Actor

Born: November 30, 1943 (age 82)
From: New Brighton, Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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in the former snake pit of the zoo, hence the name) in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to…

Filmography (40)

Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)
Rafiki (voice)
Beyond the Light Barrier (2023)
Narrator/Self
Murder Mystery 2 (2023)
Colonel Ulenga
Seal Team (2021)
Brick (voice)
The Lion King (2019)
Rafiki (voice)
The Space: Theatre of Survival (2019)
Murder Mystery (2019)
Colonel Ulenga
Black Panther (2018)
T'Chaka
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
King T'Chaka
1994: The Bloody Miracle (2014)
Narrator
Jail Caesar (2012)
Marius
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard (2012)
Self
How to Steal 2 Million (2011)
Julius Twala Snr.
Coriolanus (2011)
General Cominius
White Lion (2010)
Old Gisani
Nothing But The Truth (2009)
Director
Endgame (2009)
Oliver Tambo
The Bird Can't Fly (2008)
Stone
Final Solution (2001)
Rev. Peter Lekota
The Tichborne Claimant (1999)
Bogle
Kini & Adams (1997)
Ben
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Samuel
Soweto Green (1995)
Dr. Curtis
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid (1994)
Self
Sarafina! (1992)
School Principal
The Native Who Caused All the Trouble (1990)
Othello (1989)
Othello
A Dry White Season (1989)
Julius
Options (1989)
Jonas
Saturday Night at the Palace
Saturday Night at the Palace (1987)