Johnny Sekka

Johnny Sekka

Born: July 21, 1934
Died: September 14, 2006
in Dakar, Senegal

Movies for Johnny Sekka...

Title: Babylon 5
Character: Dr. Benjamin Kyle
Released: January 26, 1994
Type: TV
Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.
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Babylon 5: The Gathering
Title: Babylon 5: The Gathering
Character: Dr. Benjamin Kyle
Released: December 12, 1993
Type: Movie
The first installment of this Emmy award-winning series. A movie based at Babylon 5: a new space station built by Humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, has been poisoned. It is the new commanding officer's, Jeffrey Sinclair, responsibility to find the culprit. Otherwise the space station will fail in its role to bring all the races together.
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The Gifted
Title: The Gifted
Released: January 21, 1993
Type: Movie
Psychic descendents of an African tribe reunite to save Earth. 5000 years ago certain members of the Dogon tribe in West Africa were granted psychic powers by good aliens to counterbalance the effects of Ogo, a bad alien intent on taking over Earth and killing all life to remake the planet for his own purposes. Descendents of the tribe who inherit the psychic powers are given an ancient book to read and pass on. Every 32 years, in connection with the orbiting of the star Sirius B, Ogo returns to kill a few more of the psychics in his ongoing bid for power.
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Passion and Paradise
Title: Passion and Paradise
Character: Alfred Adderly
Released: February 19, 1989
Type: Movie
Sir Harry Oakes is a wealthy magnate, living amongst the British aristocrats who have made their home in the Bahamas just prior to World War II. Their small community is one of privilege and status and when Sir Harry's beloved daughter marries a handsome but penniless gigolo, Alfred De Marigny, Sir Harry is outraged by the union. But before Sir Harry can break up the marriage he is brutally and viciously murdered and his son-in-law is the prime suspect. Nothing is as it appears and Sir Harry's death soon points towards intrigue and deception on an international scale.
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Fever Pitch
Title: Fever Pitch
Character: Chocolate
Released: November 22, 1985
Type: Movie
An investigative journalist gets hooked on the subject of his inquiry — organized gambling.
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Title: Master of the Game
Character: Banda
Released: February 19, 1984
Type: TV
Elderly Kate Blackwell looks back at her family's life beginning with her Scottish father Jamie McGregor's journey to South Africa to make his fortune in diamonds. The family history is littered with revenge, lust, betrayal, manipulation, and murder.
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Title: Tales of the Gold Monkey
Released: September 22, 1982
Type: TV
In a backwater corner of the South Pacific in 1938, a young American adventurer and his ragtag group of friends become involved in death-defying hi-jinx, transporting people-on-the-run in a well-worn Grumman Goose seaplane.
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Hanky Panky
Title: Hanky Panky
Character: Lacey
Released: June 4, 1982
Type: Movie
Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.
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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Title: Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Character: Stefan
Released: February 13, 1981
Type: Movie
Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen who is the prime suspect.
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Ashanti
Title: Ashanti
Character: Captain Bradford
Released: February 21, 1979
Type: Movie
Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.
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Title: Roots: The Next Generations
Character: Ebou Manga
Released: February 18, 1979
Type: TV
Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, USA. This sequel to the 1977 miniseries is based on the last seven chapters of Haley's novel entitled Roots: The Saga of an American Family plus additional material by Haley. Roots: The Next Generations was produced with a budget of $16.6 million, nearly three times as large as that of the original.
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The African Queen
Title: The African Queen
Character: Jogana
Released: March 18, 1977
Type: Movie
After the events of The African Queen (1951), Charlie and Rose are recaptured by the Germans and forced to tug one of their big cannons that could bring the Nazis victory against the local Allied forces.
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Title: The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
Released: January 30, 1977
Type: TV
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC. The series starred Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy as amateur sleuth brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, respectively, and Pamela Sue Martin as girl detective Nancy Drew. The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries was unusual in that it often dealt with the characters individually, in an almost anthological style. That is, some episodes featured only the Hardy Boys and others only Nancy Drew.
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The Message
Title: The Message
Character: Bilal
Released: March 9, 1976
Type: Movie
Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Uptown Saturday Night
Title: Uptown Saturday Night
Character: Geechie's Henchman
Released: July 26, 1974
Type: Movie
Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.
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Visit to a Chief's Son
Title: Visit to a Chief's Son
Character: Nemolok
Released: March 15, 1974
Type: Movie
An American anthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe.
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Title: Good Times
Released: February 8, 1974
Type: TV
Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series' primary executive producer. Good Times is a spin-off of Maude, which is itself a spin-off of All in the Family along with The Jeffersons. The series is set in Chicago. The first two seasons were taped at CBS Television City in Hollywood. In the fall of 1975, the show moved to Metromedia Square, where Norman Lear's own production company was housed.
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A Warm December
Title: A Warm December
Character: Dr. Joseph Myomo
Released: May 23, 1973
Type: Movie
Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there, Dr. Younger is surprised by finding himself attracted to Catherine, a charming but elusive woman who seems to have some mysterious men following her. A romance slowly develops between the doctor and Catherine, but there are complications to their happiness.
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Charley-One-Eye
Title: Charley-One-Eye
Character: Bob
Released: April 18, 1973
Type: Movie
A black Union Army deserter and his crippled American Indian hostage form a strained partnership in the interests of surviving the advancing threats of a racist bounty hunter and neighboring bandits.
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Reou-Takh
Title: Reou-Takh
Character: Tetja Bulan
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Arguably the first African film made that engages the topic of slavery. African film pioneer Mahama Traore (more commonly referred to as Johnson), offers an uncompromising narrative that seeks to address totality of the African slave narrative.
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Things Fall Apart
Title: Things Fall Apart
Character: Obi Okonkwo
Released: October 13, 1971
Type: Movie
When Obi Okonkwo completes his studies in England and returns to Nigeria, he finds himself in a country marked by rapid industrialisation and deep political change. In a time of social upheaval, Obi represents modern Nigeria. Through his gaze, his own expectations, those of his environment and the woman he loves become visible. And the disappointment of these expectations. Obi experiences the spreading corruption, the dominance of the Europeans and the conflicts with the values of traditional societies. In flashbacks, his struggle is interwoven with that of his grandfather Okonkwo. The latter experiences the first foreign influences in his village of Umuofia, from the arrival of the Christian missionaries to British colonialism.
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Incense for the Damned
Title: Incense for the Damned
Character: Bob Kirby
Released: May 14, 1971
Type: Movie
A group of friends search for a young English Oxford student who has disappeared whilst researching in Greece. They are shocked to find that, wherever he has been, certain unsolved murders have taken place. Not believing that their friend could be the perpetrator of such acts, they press on with their search, finding him under the spell of a beautiful Vampire, whose blood-sucking methods include the use of sado-masochism. Believing they have killed her, the group return home, unaware that their friend is now a Vampire.
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The Southern Star
Title: The Southern Star
Character: Matakit
Released: March 4, 1969
Type: Movie
Comedy adventure based on a Jules Verne novel about the ups and downs of jewel thieves in the wilds of Africa circa 1900. George Segal is the appealing hero-heel and Ursula Andress is visually stunning as the lady in the proceedings. Orson Welles has a small role.
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The Last Safari
Title: The Last Safari
Character: Jama
Released: November 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A hunter stalks a killer elephant.
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Khartoum
Title: Khartoum
Character: Khaleel
Released: June 9, 1966
Type: Movie
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: Chay
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: TV
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
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East of Sudan
Title: East of Sudan
Character: Kimrasi
Released: August 16, 1964
Type: Movie
A British soldier escapes from 1880s Khartoum and goes down the Nile river with a fellow soldier, a governess and the daughter of an emir.
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Woman of Straw
Title: Woman of Straw
Character: Thomas
Released: April 28, 1964
Type: Movie
Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Alvar
Released: March 30, 1963
Type: TV
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
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The Wild and the Willing
Title: The Wild and the Willing
Character: Reggie
Released: October 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Harry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs like Phil who doesn't play 'rugger' and can't sink a whole pint of beer, and African student Reggie. He also has a way with the girls....
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Title: Studio Four
Character: Moses
Released: January 22, 1962
Type: TV
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Flame in the Streets
Title: Flame in the Streets
Character: Peter Lincoln
Released: June 19, 1961
Type: Movie
Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Col. Nsonga
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: Man Operating Hand Held Fan in Military Police Office
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.