Ken Gampu

Ken Gampu

Born: August 28, 1929
Died: November 4, 2003
in Germiston, South Africa
Ken Gampu (born 28 August 1929 in Germiston, South Africa; died 4 November 2003 in Vosloorus, South Africa) was a South African actor. Before he began his career, Gampu was a physical training instructor, salesman, interpreter and police officer. His first acting job was in Athol Fugard's play, No Good Friday (1958). His big break came in the 1965 film Dingaka by Jamie Uys. The same year, he had a significant role in Cornel Wilde's African adventure film, The Naked Prey.

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Askari
Title: Askari
Character: Ndhlovu
Released: December 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Set on a game reserve in Africa. Askari is an angry old elephant, the only survivor of the "A' family group which has been anhilitated in a government cull and he has turned rogue. Involved in the culling are Patrick Khumalo, a corrupt government official and Ribshaw, an unscrupulous white poacher accompanied by Ndhlovu, an old African tracker who is being blackmailed by Ribshaw. Anxious to save the elephants are game warden Joss Mckinley and his conservationist wife Paula who is studying and monitoring various family groups of elephants. When Paula's sixteen year old niece Emma Crawshay is orphaned she is sent to live with her aunt and uncle at Morena Game Park. She feels alienated but is gradually drawn into her aunt's passion for her work and her favourite elephant family the 'O' group, in particular a calf named Ollie.
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A Reasonable Man
Title: A Reasonable Man
Character: Headman
Released: August 13, 1999
Type: Movie
With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.
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Black Velvet Band
Title: Black Velvet Band
Character: Witch Doctor
Released: December 24, 1997
Type: Movie
Period drama Black Velvet Band takes us back to Victorian times when a gang of petty crooks find themselves sentenced to transportation to Australia, their ship, however, docks in South Africa and the gang manage to make their escape. The film starred Nick Berry, Chris McHallem and Todd Carty, who had all previously appeared in EastEnders together. The initial idea came from McHallem, whilst Nick Berry, thanks to being the darling of ITV at the time because of his hit show Heartbeat, had the clout to get it made.
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Fools
Title: Fools
Character: The Elder
Released: September 2, 1997
Type: Movie
Charterston Township 1990. Professor Zamani is respected in the township. To be sure, he once raped one of his students but the community turned a blind eye. Zamani used to rail against the apartheid system but those days are long gone. Now he teaches South African history in the Afrikaner language and grudgingly organizes the picnic for National Day, which commemorates the Boers' massacre of the Zulu nation... When Zani, the rape victim's brother, returns from Swaziland where he won a place in school, he is determined to change everything. In the small hours, in the waiting room at Johannesburg station, he runs into Prof. Zamani, who's spent the night on the town. They travel back together to the harsh reality of the township. In due course, Zamani regains some of his pride and Zani, inevitably, loses some of his...under the gaze of the women, who never renounced their dignity.
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Aristotle's Plot
Title: Aristotle's Plot
Character: Policeman
Released: June 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Tourneur, a self-proclaimed cinéaste, feuds with Cinema and his gang, who are obsessed with foreign action movies.
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Cyborg Cop II
Title: Cyborg Cop II
Character: Police Chief
Released: September 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Jack, a cop, loses his partner to a crazed terrorist during a hostage rescue sending the man to death row. What Jack doesn't know is that the terrorist will be taken and turned into a cyborg for the "Anti-Terrorist Group".
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Lethal Ninja
Title: Lethal Ninja
Character: Ndumo
Released: May 8, 1992
Type: Movie
An American ninja's wife is held hostage by a sadistic Nazi chemist on an Asian island. He teams up with an African-American ninja to rescue her.
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Oh Schucks...! Here Comes UNTAG
Title: Oh Schucks...! Here Comes UNTAG
Character: Tjicombo
Released: November 30, 1990
Type: Movie
Kwagga Robertse owns a farm shop in the fictional Southern African country of Nambabwe and usually cons foreign tourists by pretending to kill a lion, thus earning him the nickname 'Urumbo' (Lion Killer) from the country's natives. Kwagga is upset when the UN sends a platoon of incompetent soldiers with the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (U.N.T.A.G.), to monitor the peace process, and ensure free and fair elections after the Nambabwean War for Independence. The U.N.T.A.G's American leader, Major Bradick D. Mackay and his second-in-command, Captain Zapman are offered a diamond worth a lot of money in the U.S., and they must pay 200,000 USD to Duan Robertse, Kwagga's competitive brother trying to buy a farm left to them by their dead father.
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American Ninja 4: The Annihilation
Title: American Ninja 4: The Annihilation
Character: Dr. Tamba
Released: October 30, 1990
Type: Movie
The two American Ninjas, Joe Armstrong and Sean Davidson, team up to do battle against a terrorist and his band of Ninjas.
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Enemy Unseen
Title: Enemy Unseen
Character: Malanga
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A couple of young scientists, Mel Noble and Roxeanne Tangent, travel to an island in Africa thought to be deserted in search of crocodile life, when African Natives storm the camp and kidnap Roxeanne. Her father, Gordon hires Steiger and his team of investigators to track down the natives that worship crocodiles as sacred animals. The problem is: they can't be seen. With natives in the jungles and crocodiles in the waters, Steiger and his crew must fight to survive and save Roxeanne from being sacrificed in a gruesome ritual with an "Enemy Unseen."
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Quiet Thunder
Title: Quiet Thunder
Character: President Zalabok
Released: August 11, 1988
Type: Movie
A bush pilot and a senator's wife try to survive in the jungles of Africa after witnessing an assassination.
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Act of Piracy
Title: Act of Piracy
Character: Herb Bunting
Released: July 7, 1988
Type: Movie
A large motor yacht becomes the focal point in this action tale when a group of mercenaries decide to capture the vessel. The original owner, who was delivering it to Sydney, Australia, is believed dead but is in fact very much alive, and determined to recover the yacht...
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Bush Shrink
Title: Bush Shrink
Character: Gapu
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
In an unstable African country, US psychiatrist Martin Cypher teams up with a street-smart poacher to save his patient and her uncle Kingsley, who runs a diamond mine, from some rebels led by white mercenaries, who took them for ransom.
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Operation Hit Squad
Title: Operation Hit Squad
Character: Ken
Released: September 10, 1987
Type: Movie
A couple of rich women get captured by a group of terrorists, a crack team of mercenaries called Operation Hit Squad are called in to rescue them.
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Scavengers
Title: Scavengers
Character: Dr. Nduma
Released: January 8, 1987
Type: Movie
A college professor and his ex-girlfriend find themselves being hunted by the CIA, the KGB and an African drug smuggler. Seems they have inadvertently gotten information that would show how the KGB gave the CIA state secrets in return for a cut of the African drug-smuggling market.
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John Ross: An African Adventure
Title: John Ross: An African Adventure
Character: Jacob
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Zulu tribesmen escort a shipwrecked 19th-century English sailor on a 600-mile round trip for supplies.
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Jake Speed
Title: Jake Speed
Character: Joe Smith
Released: May 30, 1986
Type: Movie
Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves lives on paper, but when a young girl is kidnapped and her sister (Karen Kopins) begs the real-life Speed for help, he must find a way to be as gallant as the book hero whose creation he's inspired. Accompanied by the victim's sibling, Speed flies to Africa to see if he's up to the task.
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King Solomon's Mines
Title: King Solomon's Mines
Character: Umbopo
Released: November 22, 1985
Type: Movie
Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who has been abducted for his knowledge of the legendary mines of King Solomon. As the kidnappers, led by sinister German military officer Bockner, journey into the wilds of Africa, Allan and Jesse track the party and must contend with fierce natives and dangerous creatures, among other perils.
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Van der Merwe PI
Title: Van der Merwe PI
Character: Wiley
Released: November 22, 1985
Type: Movie
South African beauty and former Miss World, Anneline Kriel stars in this action comedy about Van der Merwe, a struggling private eye. The detective’s bad luck seems set to change when drug lord Jack Barnard hires him to find Barnard’s missing girlfriend, Angel Labuschagne.
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Title: Morenga
Character: Morenga
Released: March 13, 1985
Type: TV
Gottschalk and Wenstrup are two German veterinarians who have settled in German Southwest Africa to tend to the needs of cattle ranchers. When a rebellion by a local dissident named Morenga is brutally crushed by the Germans, the two vets get involved, at great risk to themselves, and offer help to the native revolutionaries.
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Morenga
Title: Morenga
Character: Jacob Morenga
Released: February 16, 1985
Type: Movie
Set in 1904, this is an uneven tale of war and intrigue between native South Africans, German colonialists, and British colonialists, a war no one really wins.
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City of Blood
Title: City of Blood
Character: Black Leader
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A medical examiner investigating a series of prostitute murders discovers that the culprit is an ancient tribal witch doctor come back to life.
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Claws
Title: Claws
Character: Moses
Released: October 15, 1982
Type: Movie
Set on a lonely South African farm, in the 1920’s. The film revolves around a young boy who is forced into manhood when his father is injured in a riding accident and he is left to fend for himself. The boy is terrorized by an unseen animal.
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Bullet on the Run
Title: Bullet on the Run
Character: Joe Bullet
Released: June 21, 1982
Type: Movie
Bullet is back, and this time he will have to stake his entire reputation on the line as he goes deep undercover in prison to unfold the mystery of a police corruption ring, being run by one of the most wanted mob bosses in the country, a man known only as Snake.
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My Friend
Title: My Friend
Character: Khumalo
Released: May 14, 1982
Type: Movie
Two prisoners, a white racist and a black man escape. They discover that the only way to survive is to bury their prejudice and rely on one another.
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Kill and Kill Again
Title: Kill and Kill Again
Character: Gorilla
Released: May 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Dr. Horatio Kane has been kidnapped, and is being forced to create an army of martial artists who will help take over the world. His daughter, Kandy Kane, enlists the help of Steve Chase (and a few of his friends) to rescue her father before it's too late.
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The Gods Must Be Crazy
Title: The Gods Must Be Crazy
Character: President
Released: September 10, 1980
Type: Movie
A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.
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Flashpoint Africa
Title: Flashpoint Africa
Character: Matari
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A black revolutionary group kidnaps a couple of young white women in a southern African state in the 1970s. They ask for a specific female reporter to interview them. She arrives and decides to stay with them until the girls are released.
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Game for Vultures
Title: Game for Vultures
Character: Sixpence
Released: June 25, 1979
Type: Movie
The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.
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King Solomon's Treasure
Title: King Solomon's Treasure
Character: Umpslopogas
Released: May 31, 1979
Type: Movie
Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city ruled by a beautiful queen.
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Zulu Dawn
Title: Zulu Dawn
Character: Mantshonga
Released: May 14, 1979
Type: Movie
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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The Wild Geese
Title: The Wild Geese
Character: Alexander
Released: June 28, 1978
Type: Movie
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
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Slavers
Title: Slavers
Character: Musulna
Released: February 24, 1978
Type: Movie
A story about slave hunting, colonialism, revenge and love.
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Target of an Assassin
Title: Target of an Assassin
Character: Minister Manga
Released: December 10, 1977
Type: Movie
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Title: Les Diamants du Président
Character: Colonel Mamba
Released: November 4, 1977
Type: TV
Georges Lancier is a former mercenary for hire. After he retires from business, he gets trapped in a complex conspiracy involving a diamond heist, international financiers, and struggle for political power in an imaginary African country.
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Mister Deathman
Title: Mister Deathman
Character: Sue
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Geoffrey Graves is a secret agent who comes ourt of retirement for a mission in South Africa. Stella Stevens stars as an enemy agent.
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Black Trash
Title: Black Trash
Character: Steve Chaka
Released: June 6, 1976
Type: Movie
A white cop and a black reporter join forces to investigate apparent vigilante killings in the South African underworld.
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Forever Young, Forever Free
Title: Forever Young, Forever Free
Character: Thomas Luke
Released: March 24, 1975
Type: Movie
"e’Lollipop" is the extraordinary story of two inseparable South African children, Tsepo and his orphaned friend Jannie. Jannie is sent to a missionary station in Tsepo’s village where they become best friends as Jannie finds his place in his new home. Life is full of childhood fun and antics until tragedy strikes: Jannie, now 10 years old, is seriously injured. In the face of much adversity, Tsepo and his community pull together so that Jannie can get specialised medical treatment. A daunting challenge lies ahead... At what cost will Jannie survive? Tsepo and Jannie’s inspirational story unfolds against the breathtaking backdrops of a dramatic African landscape and New York City in the mid-1970s. "e’Lollipop" is a life-changing story that reminds us of the true value of friendship, community, sacrifice and family - despite our color or creed.
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The Virgin Goddess
Title: The Virgin Goddess
Character: Gampu
Released: August 18, 1974
Type: Movie
Reworking of H. Ridder Haggard's SHE with softcore sex star Sarli as the white "goddess" who lives among the tribes of South Africa and can enjoy eternal life as long as she remains a virgin. Enter adventurer Bo and the trouble begins.
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Joe Bullet
Title: Joe Bullet
Character: Joe Bullet
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
When local soccer team The Eagles fall prey to a series of onslaughts from a mysterious gangster only a week before the championship final, the team turns to the one man that can help save their chances at victory – Joe Bullet (Ken Gampu). Joe will have to battle against villainous henchmen, escape booby-trap bombs and bring his martial arts expertise to the fore in order to survive an attack from a deadly assassin. In the end he will have to infiltrate the mysterious gangster’s hide-out in a dangerous cat-and-mouse rescue mission to save not only The Eagles’ two kidnapped star players, but that of his beautiful love interest, Beauty (Abigail Kubeka). The odds will be stacked against him, but he’s the man that fights crime, the man that no one can tie down! Joe Bullet!
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Rogue Lion
Title: Rogue Lion
Character: Mashoda
Released: June 5, 1972
Type: Movie
In South Africa a new young ranger is transferred to a troubled game reserve. He struggles to be accepted by, and help, his boss, fending off poachers and intruding natives, and gets involved with a poacher's daughter he knew from university.
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All the Way to Paris
Title: All the Way to Paris
Character: Sudanese Delegate at Conference
Released: May 5, 1966
Type: Movie
When the Russian and American delegates at a global peace conference can't compromise on a conflict, they find themselves tricked into settling the matter with a walking race from Athens to Paris, having hilarious misadventures along the way.
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The Naked Prey
Title: The Naked Prey
Character: Leader of the warriors
Released: June 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last surviving member is given "The Lion's Chance" by the tribal leader to be hunted down by a party of tribal warriors.
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Dingaka
Title: Dingaka
Character: Ntuku Makwena
Released: October 28, 1964
Type: Movie
An African tribesman seeks revenge against the people who murdered his daughter.
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Title: Daniel Boone
Character: Kamba
Released: September 24, 1964
Type: TV
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.