Zakes Mokae
Birthday: 1934-08-05
Place of Birth: Johannesburg, South Africa
Biography: Zakes Makgona Mokae (August 5, 1934 – September 11, 2009) was a South African stage and screen actor. For his role in playwright Athol Fugard's "Master Harold"...and the Boys, Mokae won the 1982 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. His major films include Cry Freedom (1987), A Dry White Season (1989), The Island (1980), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), Outbreak (1995), and Waterworld (1995). He also had memorable guest appearances on many television series such as The X-Files, The West Wing, and Monk.
Movies
Separation
Separation concerns the inner life of a woman during a period of breakdown – marital, and possibly m...
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Roar
Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keep...
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Dust Devil
A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker....
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Dad
A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. H...
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A Caribbean Mystery
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that...
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The Doctor
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he ...
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Krippendorf's Tribe
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf ...
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Outbreak
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate...
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The Island
David Nau leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation in...
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the powe...
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A Dry White Season
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he ask...
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Body Parts
A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have thei...
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Vampire in Brooklyn
Detective Rita Veder is assigned to a baffling serial murder case. After examining the crime scene —...
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Waterworld
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautif...
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Cry Freedom
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against ap...
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Gross Anatomy
Joe Slovak is a brilliant first-year med student whose casual, nonconforming approach to life gets t...
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'Master Harold'... and the Boys
When Harold, a young white man, learns that his alcoholic, handicapped father is returning home, his...
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Fragment of Fear
Reformed drug addict Tim Brett (David Hemmings) is vacationing in Italy with his aunt. When she is m...
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The River Niger
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet,...
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Dilemma
The story begins when Toby (Ivan Jackson), a young English businessman, arrives in South Africa to t...
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In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's hist...
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Jemima + Johnny
A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails....
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Percy & Thunder
A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé....
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The Comedians
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti....
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One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story
The true story of baseball star Ron LeFlore, from his days as a street-corner punk with no future to...
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Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story
The true story of Dennis Byrd, his football career, his terrible accident, and his miraculous recove...
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Parker Kane
Parker Kane is a former Police Detective turned Private Investigator. When close friend Joey is murd...
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Slaughter of the Innocents
A seasoned FBI Agent's child-genius son assists him on catching a child-killer, a schizophrenic moha...
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Darling
Diana, a beautiful but shallow and easily distracted model and failed actress, toys with the affecti...
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A Rage in Harlem
A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware...
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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the ...
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