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Vinony files it under 1942 births, 20th-century South African male actors and 21st-century South African male actors.
Its subject is documented across 27 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Ada
- Kunene and the King
- Statements
- Missing
- More market plays
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Film & TV
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in the former snake pit of the zoo, hence the name) in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to…
Known for
- Mufasa: The Lion King — Rafiki (voice)2024
- Murder Mystery 2 — Colonel Ulenga2023
- Beyond the Light Barrier — Narrator/Self2023
- Seal Team — Brick (voice)2021
- What If...? — T'Chaka (voice)2021
- Marvel Studios Legends — T'Chaka (archive footage) (uncredited)2021
- The Space: Theatre of Survival2019
- The Lion King — Rafiki (voice)2019
- Murder Mystery — Colonel Ulenga2019
- Black Panther — T'Chaka2018
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- Italy
Discography
- Kani2008
- Rockabeast2010
- Badass2012
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 9,300
- Total plays
- 23,580
Tags
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Child
- Atandwa Kani
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- The Lion King
- Image
- John Kani 2015.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1943-08-30
- start of work period
- 1965-00-00
- Commons category
- John Kani
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