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Douta Seck is a Actor born on 4 august 1919

Douta Seck

Douta Seck
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Birth 4 august 1919
Death 5 november 1991 (at 72 years)

Douta Seck est un acteur sénégalais né le 4 août 1919 à Saint-Louis et mort le 5 novembre 1991. Il épouse une Française, Marie-Louise Vidal de Fonseca, née en 1926 et fille de l'architecte Henri Antoine Vidal dont il a une fille, Emmanuelle, née en 1955.

Il crée notamment le rôle principal dans la pièce d'Aimé Césaire La Tragédie du roi Christophe.

Une maison de la culture de Dakar porte son nom.

Best films

Sugar Cane Alley
Sugar Cane Alley
(1983)
(Actor)

Usually with

Souheil Ben Barka
Souheil Ben Barka
(1 films)
René Hell
René Hell
(2 films)
Ousmane Sembène
Ousmane Sembène
(1 films)
Doudou Babet
Doudou Babet
(2 films)
Peter Glenville
Peter Glenville
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Douta Seck (8 films)

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Actor

Petanqui
Petanqui (1983)
, 1h48
Origin Ivoire
Genres Drama
Actors Sidiki Bakaba, Douta Seck, Zalika Souley, Thérèse Taba, Albertine N'Guessan

During the drought, Pétanqui - who is responsible for the distribution of food to the population - enjoys a good life, a nice house, lovers and an official car. His son returns from France with a Law degree, and although he does not approve his father’s lifestyle, he decides to defend him in court when he is accused of embezzlement.
Amok
Amok (1983)
, 1h43
Directed by Souheil Ben Barka
Genres Drama
Actors Robert Liensol, Miriam Makeba, Douta Seck, Richard Harrison, Gianni Garko, Claudio Gora
Roles Reverend Sikau Norje
Rating59% 2.969132.969132.969132.969132.96913
Sugar Cane Alley
Sugar Cane Alley (1983)
, 1h41
Directed by Euzhan Palcy
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about children, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Darling Légitimus, Douta Seck
Roles Medouze
Rating72% 3.6334853.6334853.6334853.6334853.633485
José, the protagonist, is a young boy living in a rural part of Martinique in the 1930s. Many of the people around him, including his grandmother, M'man-Tine, work in the sugar cane fields where they are often mistreated by the white boss. José, an orphan, has a father figure in an elderly man named Medouze who likes to tell him stories about Africa. José attends school at the insistence of his grandmother, who doesn't want him to end up like the other children, working in the fields. Medouze goes missing, and José finds him dead at the bottom of a valley. At school, José befriends a mulatto boy named Léopald whose father doesn't want him to associate with the field workers. While José and Léopald are playing, the father tries to come get him and gets kicked in the stomach by a horse, leading to his death. José wins a partial scholarship to attend high school in Fort-de-France, the capital. His grandmother accompanies him there, working as a laundrywoman for the rich white ruling class to pay for costs. They are able to find a small trailer to use as a home thanks to José's friend who works as a boat driver. José deals with pressure around him, especially from one of his teachers. When he writes an essay on the lives of poor blacks he is accused of plagiarism, so he runs away from school, back to his small shack in the city. The professor goes to his house and tells José that he was wrongly accused, offering an apology and a full scholarship to the school. Later José returns to Black Shack Alley after his grandmother has a heart attack while returning home from a trip to a local clothesmaker to make José a fresh suit. José sees Léopald being punished for stealing the bosses ledger to prove that he was ripping everybody off. As his grandmother dies, José is launched into a future he cannot control.
Xala
Xala (1977)
, 2h3
Directed by Ousmane Sembène
Origin Senegal
Genres Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Douta Seck
Roles Gorgui
Rating66% 3.347913.347913.347913.347913.34791
El Hadji Abdoukader Beye, a Senegalese businessman, takes on a third wife, thereby demonstrating his social and economic success. On the wedding night he discovers that he is incapable of consummating the marriage; he has become impotent. At the beginning, he suspects his two wives, without realizing that he walks by the true guilty party every day. The film criticizes the African leaders' attitude after Independence, underlining their greed and their inability to step away from foreign influences.
The Comedians
The Comedians (1967)
, 2h30
Directed by Peter Glenville
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Lillian Gish, Georg Stanford Brown
Roles Joseph
Rating62% 3.1478953.1478953.1478953.1478953.147895
A ship arrives in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Four of the alighting passengers are: Major H. O. Jones (Alec Guinness), a British businessman with a letter of invitation to do business with the government; an elderly American couple, Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Paul Ford and Lillian Gish) who wish to set up a vegetarian complex for education and nutrition for the locals, and the central character, a cynical, washed-up hotel owner named Brown, portrayed by Richard Burton.
Checkerboard
Checkerboard (1959)
, 2h5
Directed by Claude Bernard-Aubert
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about racism
Actors Jacques Richard, Grégoire Aslan, Douta Seck, Doudou Babet, Milly Vitale, Roger Blin
Roles Vance
Rating56% 2.8381552.8381552.8381552.8381552.838155
Dans la ville de Cicada, naguère florissante grâce à un barrage désormais détruit, règne la ségrégation raciale. Mais une histoire d'amour débute entre deux jeunes gens, le Blanc Bob Stanley et la Noire Bessie Vance, ce qui provoque un déchaînement de violence entre communautés. La découverte d'une source va permettre la réconciliation des familles de Bob et de Bessie qui abandonneront Cicada pour créer une nouvelle ville.
Tamango
Tamango (1958)
, 1h38
Directed by Marc Maurette, John Berry
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about slavery, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Dorothy Dandridge, Curd Jürgens, Jean Servais, Roger Hanin, Guy Mairesse, Doudou Babet
Roles Slave Warrior
Rating64% 3.2431753.2431753.2431753.2431753.243175
Captain Reiker (Curd Jürgens), a Dutch sea captain, sets off on what he intends to be his last slave-ship voyage. After capturing slaves with the complicity of an African chief (Habib Benglia), he then starts his voyage for Cuba. Along with the slaves below-deck, the passengers include his mistress, the slave Aiché (Dorothy Dandridge), and the ship's doctor, Doctor Corot (Jean Servais). Tamango (Alex Cressan), one of the captured men, plans a revolt and tries to persuade Aiché to join him and the other slaves. When the captured slaves do rebel, Tamango manages to hold Aiché hostage. A deadlock between the two sides then develops and Captain Renker states he will fire a cannon into the ships' hold and kill all the slaves unless they give up. Aiché is given a chance to leave by Tamango but after looking up the ladder that leads out of the hold (and towards life), chooses to stay with her fellow slaves. The captain makes good on his threat and shoots the cannon into the hold, literally silencing the slaves' songs.