Zakes Mokae
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9162 |
| Birthday | 1934-08-05 |
| Place of Birth | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Also Known As | Закес Мокае, |
1968
Separation
5.364/11
Separation concerns the inner life of a woman during a period of breakdown – marital, and possibly mental. Her past and (possible?) future are reveale...
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Separation
1981
Roar
5.819/135
Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.
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Roar
1992
Dust Devil
6.265/153
A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.
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Dust Devil
1989
Dad
6.368/114
A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes...
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Dad
1983
A Caribbean Mystery
6.2/23
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort...
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A Caribbean Mystery
1991
The Doctor
6.5/88
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has s...
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The Doctor
1998
Krippendorf's Tribe
4.616/95
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a h...
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Krippendorf's Tribe
1995
Outbreak
6.585/2577
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus sprea...
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Outbreak
1980
The Island
5.3/103
David Nau leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation in the Caribbean. When reporter Blair Maynard and hi...
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The Island
1988
The Serpent and the Rainbow
6.402/569
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his...
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
1989
A Dry White Season
6.697/117
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy w...
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A Dry White Season
1991
Body Parts
5.85/137
A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an...
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Body Parts
1995
Vampire in Brooklyn
5.092/658
Detective Rita Veder is assigned to a baffling serial murder case. After examining the crime scene — a corpse-filled ship found adrift at sea — she me...
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Vampire in Brooklyn
1995
Waterworld
6.237/4218
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floati...
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Waterworld
1987
Cry Freedom
6.992/238
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods...
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Cry Freedom
1989
Gross Anatomy
5.672/60
Joe Slovak is a brilliant first-year med student whose casual, nonconforming approach to life gets tested when he enrolls in Gross Anatomy, the toughe...
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Gross Anatomy
1985
'Master Harold'... and the Boys
6.556/9
When Harold, a young white man, learns that his alcoholic, handicapped father is returning home, his frustration turns into racist viciousness against...
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'Master Harold'... and the Boys
1970
Fragment of Fear
5.949/39
Reformed drug addict Tim Brett (David Hemmings) is vacationing in Italy with his aunt. When she is murdered, he tries to investigate. Soon his whole l...
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Fragment of Fear
1976
The River Niger
6.667/6
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support...
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The River Niger
1957
Dark Africa
0/0
South African Movie
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Dark Africa
1962
Dilemma
6.222/9
The story begins when Toby (Ivan Jackson), a young English businessman, arrives in South Africa to take charge of a publishing firm. He knows little a...
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Dilemma
1994
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
8/1
A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid.
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In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
1966
Jemima + Johnny
7/1
A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails.
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Jemima + Johnny
1993
Percy & Thunder
8/1
A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.
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Percy & Thunder
1967
The Comedians
6.117/47
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
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The Comedians
1978
One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story
6.125/4
The true story of baseball star Ron LeFlore, from his days as a street-corner punk with no future to his days behind bars on a petty robbery convictio...
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One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story
1994
Rise & Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story
6/2
The true story of Dennis Byrd, his football career, his terrible accident, and his miraculous recovery and rehabilitation.
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Rise & Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story
1990
Parker Kane
4.6/8
Parker Kane is a former Police Detective turned Private Investigator. When close friend Joey is murdered, leaving behind a briefcase full of money, Ka...
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Parker Kane
1993
Slaughter of the Innocents
5.531/32
A seasoned FBI Agent's child-genius son assists him on catching a child-killer, a schizophrenic mohab nut who believes he's been chosen by god to be a...
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Slaughter of the Innocents
1965
Darling
6.739/155
Diana, a beautiful but shallow and easily distracted model and failed actress, toys with the affections of several men while attempting to gain fame a...
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Darling
1991
A Rage in Harlem
5.466/58
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 unsavo...
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A Rage in Harlem
1970
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
6/18
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into p...
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