John Kani

Personal Info

Birthday

November 30, 1943

(81 years old)

Place of Birth

New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Also Known As

جان کانی

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in the former snake pit of the zoo, hence the name) in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to a resounding reception.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, co-written with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona, in the early 1970s.

Known For

Mufasa: The Lion King

Silent Witness

What If...?

Marvel Studios Legends

Play for Today

Captain America: Civil War

Wallander

Black Panther

Filmography

2024
Mufasa: The Lion King
as Rafiki (voice)
2023
Murder Mystery 2
as Colonel Ulenga
2021
Seal Team
as Brick (voice)
2019
The Lion King
as Rafiki (voice)
Murder Mystery
as Colonel Ulenga
2018
Black Panther
as T'Chaka
2016
Captain America: Civil War
as King T'Chaka
2014
1994: The Bloody Miracle
as Narrator
2012
Jail Caesar
as Marius
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
as Self
2011
How to Steal 2 Million
as Julius Twala Snr.
Coriolanus
as General Cominius
2010
White Lion
as Old Gisani
2009
Nothing But The Truth
as Sipho
Endgame
as Oliver Tambo
2008
The Bird Can't Fly
as Stone
2001
Final Solution
as Rev. Peter Lekota
1998
The Tichborne Claimant
as Bogle
1997
Kini & Adams
as Ben
1996
The Ghost and the Darkness
as Samuel
1995
Soweto Green
as Dr. Curtis
1994
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
as Self
1992
Sarafina!
as School Principal
1989
Othello
as Othello
A Dry White Season
as Julius
Options
as Jonas
1987
An African Dream
as Khatana
1986
Miss Julie
as John
1985
'Master Harold'... and the Boys
as Willie
1981
The Grass Is Singing
as Moses
A Sizwe Bansi Workshop
as Himself
1980
Marigolds in August
as Melton
1978
Victims of Apartheid
as George O'Brien
The Wild Geese
as Sgt. Jesse Blake
1974
Sizwe Bansi is Dead
as Styles/Buntu