Zakes Mokae

Zakes Mokae

Born: August 5, 1934
Died: September 11, 2009
in Johannesburg, South Africa

Movies for Zakes Mokae...

Title: Monk
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: TV
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
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Title: The West Wing
Character: President Nimbala
Released: September 22, 1999
Type: TV
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.
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Krippendorf's Tribe
Title: Krippendorf's Tribe
Character: Sulukim
Released: February 27, 1998
Type: Movie
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts, makeup, and staged rituals transform his three troubled children into the Shelmikedmu, a primitive culture whose habits enthrall scholars. But when a spiteful rival threatens to blow the whistle on Krippendorf's ruse, he gets into the act as well.
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Title: Oz
Character: Kipekemie Jara
Released: July 12, 1997
Type: TV
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
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Vampire in Brooklyn
Title: Vampire in Brooklyn
Character: Dr. Zeko
Released: October 26, 1995
Type: Movie
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 meets Maximilian, a smooth-talking Caribbean playboy determined to romance her.
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Waterworld
Title: Waterworld
Character: Priam
Released: July 28, 1995
Type: Movie
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 floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.
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Title: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Character: Mr. Bakoosa (voice)
Released: March 12, 1995
Type: TV
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.
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Outbreak
Title: Outbreak
Character: Dr. Benjamin Iwabi
Released: March 10, 1995
Type: Movie
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 spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
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Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story
Title: Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story
Character: Harding
Released: February 28, 1994
Type: Movie
The true story of Dennis Byrd, his football career, his terrible accident, and his miraculous recovery and rehabilitation.
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In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
Title: In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
Character: Self
Released: February 18, 1994
Type: Movie
A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid.
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Slaughter of the Innocents
Title: Slaughter of the Innocents
Character: Library Janitor
Released: September 17, 1993
Type: Movie
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 new Noah.
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Title: The X-Files
Character: Diabria
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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Percy & Thunder
Title: Percy & Thunder
Character: Pee Wee
Released: September 7, 1993
Type: Movie
A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.
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Dust Devil
Title: Dust Devil
Character: Ben Mukurob
Released: July 11, 1992
Type: Movie
A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.
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Body Parts
Title: Body Parts
Character: Detective Sawchuck
Released: August 2, 1991
Type: Movie
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 executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing occurrences start happening to the surviving two.
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The Doctor
Title: The Doctor
Character: Dr. Charles Reed (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1991
Type: Movie
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 seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.
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A Rage in Harlem
Title: A Rage in Harlem
Character: Big Kathy
Released: May 3, 1991
Type: Movie
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. A pudgy momma's boy becomes the object of her affections and the unlikely hero of the tale.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Edgar Barkley
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Parker Kane
Title: Parker Kane
Character: Kid Lightning
Released: August 5, 1990
Type: Movie
Parker Kane is a former Police Detective turned Private Investigator. When close friend Joey is murdered, leaving behind a briefcase full of money, Kane sets out to find out who was responsible. The trail of clues leads to a major scam involving illegal dumping of toxic waste.
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Title: Dream On
Released: July 8, 1990
Type: TV
The family life, romantic life, and career of Martin Tupper, a divorced New York City book editor. The show distinctively interjected clips from older black and white television series to punctuate Tupper's feelings or thoughts.
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Dad
Title: Dad
Character: Dr. Chad
Released: October 27, 1989
Type: Movie
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 closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.
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Gross Anatomy
Title: Gross Anatomy
Character: Dr. Banumbra
Released: October 20, 1989
Type: Movie
Joe Slovak is a brilliant first-year med student whose casual, nonconforming approach to life gets tested when he enrolls in Gross Anatomy, the toughest course in med school.
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A Dry White Season
Title: A Dry White Season
Character: Stanley Makhaya
Released: September 20, 1989
Type: Movie
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 who died in police custody.
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
Title: The Serpent and the Rainbow
Character: Dargent Peytraud
Released: February 5, 1988
Type: Movie
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 quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
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Cry Freedom
Title: Cry Freedom
Character: Father Kani
Released: November 6, 1987
Type: Movie
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.
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'Master Harold'... and the Boys
Title: 'Master Harold'... and the Boys
Character: Sam
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
When Harold, a young white man, learns that his alcoholic, handicapped father is returning home, his frustration turns into racist viciousness against the two black men who work for the family.
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A Caribbean Mystery
Title: A Caribbean Mystery
Character: Cap. Daventry
Released: October 22, 1983
Type: Movie
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing photograph the Major was carrying is missing, Miss Marple realizes that the serial killer has struck again and more murders will follow.
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Title: Knight Rider
Character: Tsombe Kuna
Released: September 26, 1982
Type: TV
Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including a new face and a new identity--that of Michael Knight. Michael is then given a special computerized and indestructible car called the Knight Industries Two Thousand (nicknamed KITT), and a mission: apprehend criminals who are beyond the reach of the law. The series depicts Michael's exploits as he and KITT battle the forces of evil on behalf of the Foundation for Law and Government.
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Roar
Title: Roar
Character: Committee
Released: November 12, 1981
Type: Movie
Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.
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The Island
Title: The Island
Character: Wescott
Released: June 13, 1980
Type: Movie
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 his son arrive to investigate the mystery of the disappearing boats, Nau and his band of raiders decide to induct them into their tribe.
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One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story
Title: One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story
Character: Pee Wee Spencer
Released: September 26, 1978
Type: Movie
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 conviction to his ultimate once-in-a-lifetime chance with the Detroit Tigers, where he became an outstanding baseball player.
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The River Niger
Title: The River Niger
Released: April 14, 1976
Type: Movie
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 his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.
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Title: Starsky & Hutch
Released: September 10, 1975
Type: TV
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.
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Fragment of Fear
Title: Fragment of Fear
Released: September 3, 1970
Type: Movie
A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.
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Separation
Title: Separation
Character: Uncredited
Released: October 19, 1968
Type: Movie
Separation concerns the inner life of a woman during a period of breakdown – marital, and possibly mental. Her past and (possible?) future are revealed through a fragmented but brilliantly achieved and often humorous narrative, in which dreams and desires are as real as the ‘swinging’ London (complete with Procul Harum music and Mark Boyle light show) of the film’s setting.
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The Comedians
Title: The Comedians
Character: Michel
Released: October 31, 1967
Type: Movie
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
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Jemima + Johnny
Title: Jemima + Johnny
Character: Blind Man
Released: September 26, 1966
Type: Movie
A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails.
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Darling
Title: Darling
Character: Black Man at French Party (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1965
Type: Movie
The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored woman, who toys with the affections of several men while gaining fame and fortune.
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Dilemma
Title: Dilemma
Character: Steven Sitole
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: Movie
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 about apartheid and so at first sees no contradiction in developing a relationship with an elite, upper-class white woman and with a woman dedicated to fighting apartheid. But as Toby makes friends with one of the black South Africans (Zaku Mokae), and as he registers both the subtle and more obvious, deep-seated racial prejudices of the minority white population, some of the truth of the oppression here begins to dawn. That is brought to a head when tragedy strikes.
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Dark Africa
Title: Dark Africa
Released: December 18, 1957
Type: Movie
South African Movie
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Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self - Nominee
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: TV
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.