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Zakes Mokae is a Actor Sud africain born on 5 august 1934 at Johannesburg (South africa)
Zakes Makgona Mokae (5 August 1934 – 11 September 2009) was a South African-born American actor.
Au théâtre (domaine où il sera très actif), il débute à Londres en 1961 et à New York en 1970. À Broadway et Off-Broadway, il joue notamment aux côtés de Danny Glover (avec lequel il fonde à San Francisco une compagnie théâtrale en 1980, The Black Actors Theatre) et de James Earl Jones, en particulier dans des pièces de son compatriote Athol Fugard. L'une de celles-ci, Maître Harold et les garçons lui vaudra de gagner en 1982 un Tony Award.
Par ailleurs, il apparaît au cinéma entre 1962 et 1998, et à la télévision, dans des séries et téléfilms, de 1963 à 2002.
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Birth name Zakes Makgona Mokae
Nationality South africa
Birth 5 august 1934 at Johannesburg (South africa)
Death 11 september 2009 (at 75 years) at Las Vegas (USA)
Nationality South africa
Birth 5 august 1934 at Johannesburg (South africa)
Death 11 september 2009 (at 75 years) at Las Vegas (USA)
Biography
Après des études théâtrales à la Royal Academy of Dramatic Art de Londres et des débuts difficiles dans son pays natal vers la fin des années 1950, en raison de la politique de l'apartheid alors pratiquée, Zakes Mokae passe par l'Angleterre dans les années 1960, puis émigre aux États-Unis en 1969.Au théâtre (domaine où il sera très actif), il débute à Londres en 1961 et à New York en 1970. À Broadway et Off-Broadway, il joue notamment aux côtés de Danny Glover (avec lequel il fonde à San Francisco une compagnie théâtrale en 1980, The Black Actors Theatre) et de James Earl Jones, en particulier dans des pièces de son compatriote Athol Fugard. L'une de celles-ci, Maître Harold et les garçons lui vaudra de gagner en 1982 un Tony Award.
Par ailleurs, il apparaît au cinéma entre 1962 et 1998, et à la télévision, dans des séries et téléfilms, de 1963 à 2002.
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Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)
, 1h30Directed by Todd Holland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Richard Dreyfuss, Jenna Elfman, Natasha Lyonne, Zakes Mokae, Lily Tomlin, Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Roles Sulukim
Rating50%
Respected anthropologist James Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss) and his wife, Jennifer (Barbara Williams), bring their three children along during their much-enjoyed search in New Guinea for a lost tribe. The search fails, despite the family's best efforts. After Jennifer's death back in the U.S., James falls into academic stagnation, having spent all his foundation grant money raising the children as a single parent. Scheduled to lecture at a college and fearful of being charged with misuse of grant funds, James concocts an imaginary tribe, the Shelmikedmu, using the names of his children as a basis. He later fakes a 16 mm "documentary" film, casting his children as tribe members and superimposing footage of a legitimate New Guinean tribe so as to enhance the illusion.
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
, 1h42Directed by Wes Craven
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film, Comedy horror films
Actors Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Allen Payne, Kadeem Hardison, John Witherspoon, Zakes Mokae
Roles Dr. Zeko
Rating47%
An abandoned ship crashes into a dockyard in Brooklyn, New York, and the ship inspector, Silas Green, finds it full of corpses. Elsewhere, Julius Jones, Silas's nephew, has a run-in with some Italian mobsters. Just as the two goons are about to kill Julius, Maximillian, a suave, mysterious vampire (who arrived on the ship in his intricately carved coffin), intervenes and kills them. Soon after, Maximillian infects Julius with his vampiric blood, turning Julius into a decaying ghoul and claiming that it has benefits; he then explains that he has come to Brooklyn in search of the Dhampir daughter of a vampire from his native Caribbean island in order to live beyond the night of the next full moon.
Waterworld (1995)
, 2h16Directed by Kevin Costner, Kevin Reynolds
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Action, Adventure, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Environmental films, Seafaring films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino, Michael Jeter, Gerard Murphy
Roles Priam
Rating62%
In the beginning of the 21st century, the polar ice caps melted and the sea level rose to cover every continent on Earth. Surviving humans were scattered across the ocean on ramshackle floating communities known as atolls, mostly built from scrap metal and decrepit sea vessels. Over time, the survivors eventually forget that they ever lived on firm ground, adapting a mythological place named "Dryland" somewhere in the ocean.
Outbreak (1995)
, 2h8Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, Duncan Henderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, La fin du monde, Medical-themed films, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Cuba Gooding Jr., Patrick Dempsey, Donald Sutherland
Roles Dr. Benjamin Iwabi
Rating65%
Motaba, a fictional virus which causes a deadly fever, is discovered in the African jungle in 1967. To keep the virus a secret, U.S. Army officers Donald McClintock (Donald Sutherland) and William Ford (Morgan Freeman) destroy the camp where it was found.
Slaughter of the Innocents (1993)
, 1h44Directed by James Glickenhaus
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror
Actors Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus, Scott Glenn, Darlanne Fluegel, Kevin Sorbo, Armin Shimerman, Aaron Eckhart
Roles Library Janitor
Rating51%
Un agent du FBI, Stephen Broderick, assisté de son génie de fils, Jesse, est missionné pour arrêter un autre adolescent aux performances intellectuelles très élevées, mais maléfique. Celui-ci croit en effet avoir été choisi par Dieu pour être le nouveau Noé, ce qu'il fait qu'il s'est mis à capturer deux individus de chaque espèce…
Dust Devil (1992)
, 1h43Directed by Richard Stanley
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Zakes Mokae, Robert John Burke, Chelsea Field, Richard Stanley, William Hootkins, Marianne Sägebrecht
Roles Ben Mukurob
Rating62%
Joe Niemand (John Matshikiza), a Sangoma near Spitzkoppe in Namibia, begins a tale that states "back in the first times, in the time of the red light, Desert Wind was a man like us. Until by mischance, he grew wings and flew like a bird. He became a hunter, and like a hawk, he flew to seek his prey. Taking refuge in those far corners of the world where magic still lingers. But having once been a man, so does he still suffer the passions of a man, flying in the rages sometimes, and throwing himself down like a child, to vent his wrath upon the earth. The people of the great Namib have another name for those violent winds that blow from nowhere. They call them Dust Devils.
Body Parts (1991)
, 1h28Directed by Eric Red
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Jeff Fahey, Brad Dourif, Zakes Mokae, Kim Delaney, Paul Ben-Victor, Lindsay Duncan
Roles Detective Sawchuck
Rating57%
Bill Chrushank (Jeff Fahey) is a psychologist working with convicted killers at a prison in addition to teaching classes at a university. Ray, a convict who murdered his cellmate recently, tells Bill he can’t do anything to fix him. At home, Bill wonders to his wife (Kim Delaney) if this is true. He wants to be able to fix someone like Ray but in all his research and studies has never seen proof it’s possible. The next day, while driving to work, Bill gets in a horrific car accident where he loses his arm. At the hospital, Dr. Agatha Webb (Lindsay Duncan) convinces Bill’s wife to sign off on an experimental transplant surgery to give him a new arm from a donor they have waiting. Heavily drugged, Bill is wheeled into the operating room where he groggily notes several armed cops in hospital scrubs. The cops leave as soon as Dr. Webb removes the unknown donor’s head from his body at a nearby operating table. Bill awakens from the surgery and struggles to rehabilitate his new arm, which is covered in gruesome scars. One day, while struggling to lift a tiny weight, his arm makes a violent unexpected move upward. After this happens Bill makes a swift recovery and is released from the hospital. After some initial awkwardness between his wife with the new arm, he pleasures her with it and they make love. Just when it seems things are back to normal, Bill starts seeing flashes of horrible acts of murder (as if he is committing them). Next, he loses control of his new arm and cuts his face while shaving. Then at the prison, Ray freaks out seeing that Bill has the same tattoo on his wrist, which is only given to inmates on death row. Bill has a police friend scan his new fingerprints and is shocked to discover the arm came from convicted serial killer Charley Fletcher (John Walsh), who had murdered 20 people.
A Rage in Harlem (1991)
, 1h48Directed by Bill Duke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime
Actors Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines, Robin Givens, Zakes Mokae, Danny Glover, Badja Djola
Roles Big Kathy
Rating58%
A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her trail.
The Doctor (1991)
, 2h2Directed by Randa Haines
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Mandy Patinkin, Elizabeth Perkins, Adam Arkin, Charlie Korsmo
Roles Dr. Charles Reed (uncredited)
Rating68%
Dr Jack McKee is a successful surgeon at a leading hospital. He and his wife have all the trappings of success, although Jack works such long hours that he rarely has time to see their son and has become somewhat emotionally dead to his wife. His "bedside manner" with his patients, in many cases seriously ill, is also quite lacking. The decorum in the operating theater is very casual, loud country and rock music, and the chatter between him and his partner, Dr. Murray Kaplan, not particularly professional. (When a patient with a chest scar mentions her husband is not close anymore, Jack responds that she should tell him that she is just like a "Playboy centerfold, because she has the staple marks to prove it.
Dad (1989)
, 1h57Directed by Gary David Goldberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy Baker, Kevin Spacey, Ethan Hawke
Roles Dr. Chad
Rating62%
John Tremont (Ted Danson) is a busy executive. He learns during a meeting that his mother has collapsed and been rushed to the hospital. Flying immediately to Los Angeles, he ends up becoming a caretaker of his father Jake (Jack Lemmon) while Bette Tremont (Olympia Dukakis) recovers from her heart-attack. A retired aerospace industry worker, Jake has become somewhat feeble and totally reliant on his wife, so John attempts to get him more involved in day-to-day things like taking care of the house.
A Dry White Season (1989)
, 1h37Directed by Euzhan Palcy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Politic
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism
Actors Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Jürgen Prochnow, Zakes Mokae, Susannah Harker, Susan Sarandon
Roles Stanley Makhaya
Rating69%
In 1976, in South Africa during Apartheid, Ben Du Toit (Donald Sutherland) is a South African school teacher.
Gross Anatomy (1989)
, 1h49Directed by Thom Eberhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga, Christine Lahti, Todd Field, Clyde Kusatsu, Robert Desiderio
Roles Dr. Banumbra
Rating61%
Joe Slovak is a brilliant first-year med student whose nonconformist approach to life is tested when he enrolls in gross anatomy, the toughest course in med school. Joe's freewheeling, independent style creates funny moments in the classroom, but puts him at odds with his demanding professor, who questions whether her class "rebel" has what it takes to be a doctor. Meanwhile, Joe falls in love with his lab partner Laurie, who won't let anything, especially romance, interfere with her plans. And while Joe's never done anything by the book, he proves he does have what it takes to succeed — without changing his ways.
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
, 1h38Directed by Wes Craven
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield, Bill Pullman, Brent Jennings, Michael Gough
Roles Dargent Peytraud
Rating63%
In 1978, a Haitian man named Christophe (Conrad Roberts) mysteriously dies in a French missionary clinic, while outside a voodoo parade marches past his window with a burning coffin. The next morning, Christophe is buried in a traditional Catholic funeral, at which his sister cries over his body and prays for his soul. Onlooking is a mysterious black man dressed in a suit who was also outside Christophe's hospital window on the night he died. As the coffin is lowered into the ground, Christophe's eyes open and tears roll down his cheeks.
Cry Freedom (1987)
, 2h37Directed by Richard Attenborough
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about racism, Political films
Actors Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton, Kevin McNally, Kate Hardie, John Thaw
Roles Father Kani
Rating73%
Following a news story depicting the demolition of a slum in East London, South Africa, journalist Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) seeks more information about the incident and ventures off to meet black activist Steve Biko (Denzel Washington). Biko has been officially banned by the South African government and is not permitted to leave his defined banning area at King William's Town. Woods is formally against Biko's banning, but remains critical of his political views. Biko invites Woods to visit a black township to see the impoverished conditions and to witness the effect of the government-imposed restrictions, which make up the apartheid system. Woods begins to agree with Biko's desire for a South Africa where blacks have the same opportunities and freedoms as those enjoyed by the white population. As Woods comes to understand Biko's point of view, a friendship slowly develops between them.
, 1h29Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Matthew Broderick, John Kani, Zakes Mokae
Roles Sam
Rating74%