Winston Ntshona

Winston Ntshona

Born: October 6, 1941
Died: August 2, 2018
in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Winston Ntshona (6 October 1941 – 2 August 2018) was a South African playwright and actor. He won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1975.

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Falls the Shadow:  The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Title: Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Character: Himself
Released: May 28, 2012
Type: Movie
Director Tony Palmer tells the incredible life story of Athol Fugard, the prolific playwright, novelist, and director who exposed the horrors of South Africa's apartheid system for the entire world to see. Interviews with Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Yvonne Bryceland and others help to illuminate Fugard's remarkable legacy.
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Malunde
Title: Malunde
Character: Grandfather Khumalo
Released: September 12, 2001
Type: Movie
Post-apartheid South Africa is the setting for this drama about a mismatched twosome who end up together on a life-altering journey to Cape Town. Polar opposites Kobus (Ian Roberts), a white ex-soldier who struggles with demons from his past, and Wonderboy (Kagiso Mtetwa), a young black street kid who clings to memories of his family, come together to take on the society that has cast them aside and eventually build a friendship for the ages.
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I Dreamed of Africa
Title: I Dreamed of Africa
Character: Old Pokot Chief
Released: May 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Inspired by the true story of indomitable Kuki Gallmann, the film tells of a beautiful and inquisitive woman who had the courage to escape from her comfortable yet monotonous life in Italy to start anew in the African wilderness with her son, Emanuele, and her new husband, Paolo. Gallmann faces great danger there but eventually becomes a celebrated conservationist.
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Tarzan and the Lost City
Title: Tarzan and the Lost City
Character: Mugambe
Released: April 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Tarzan returns to his homeland of Africa to save his home from destruction.
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The Storekeeper
Title: The Storekeeper
Character: The Storekeeper
Released: March 6, 1998
Type: Movie
An elderly man owns a small, isolated general store, somewhere in rural South Africa. After suffering a series of burglaries, which culminate in the murder of a night-watchman, the Storekeeper finally takes the law into his own hands - with tragic consequences.
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The Air Up There
Title: The Air Up There
Character: Urudu
Released: January 7, 1994
Type: Movie
Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the chief's son and has responsibilities at home, since the tribe's land is threatened by a mining company with its own hotshot basketball team.
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The Power of One
Title: The Power of One
Character: Mlungisi
Released: March 27, 1992
Type: Movie
PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel teaches him how to box with the motto “fight with your fists and lead with your heart”. As he grows to manhood, PK uses these words to take on the system and the injustices he sees around him - and finds that one person really can make a difference.
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Night of the Cyclone
Title: Night of the Cyclone
Character: Quett
Released: January 28, 1991
Type: Movie
A big city police lieutenant travels to the tropics to find his daughter, who he finds involved with a very suspicious artist.
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A Dry White Season
Title: A Dry White Season
Character: Gordon Ngubene
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 Stick
Title: The Stick
Character: The Witchdoctor
Released: August 23, 1988
Type: Movie
A squad (stick) of South African soldiers is sent into the bush to track down some rebel fighters when things take a supernatural turn.
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Gandhi
Title: Gandhi
Character: Porter
Released: December 1, 1982
Type: Movie
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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A Sizwe Bansi Workshop
Title: A Sizwe Bansi Workshop
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The play, Sizwe Bansi is Dead, follows the main character, Sizwe, as he writes to his wife after an unsuccessful search for a new job and better life for his family. This film places the viewer in the discussions between the writers of the play: Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona as they attempt to explain and re-write the play.
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Marigolds in August
Title: Marigolds in August
Character: Daan
Released: December 31, 1980
Type: Movie
Marigolds in August was written by Athol Fugard, who in the early 1980s was South Africa's most celebrated playwright. Fugard's intense political opinions were enough for the USSR to object to Marigolds being shown in the 1980 Berlin Festival, but the objections were dropped when it was learned that Fugard had already built up a strong fan following in Eastern Europe (for various reasons, the film was not released in the US until 1984). Winston Ntshona stars as a black South African gardener who travels by foot into the white community looking for a job. Upon arriving, Ntshona discovers that another black, John Kani, may have been hired for that job. Ntshoa ruins the chances for himself and Kani by accusing the other man of planning a theft. Both men are eventually hired by a fellow outcast, a white poacher (played by Anthol Fugard himself). The message would seem to be that if the have-nots of the world stick together, it matters little how badly they're treated by the "haves."
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The Dogs of War
Title: The Dogs of War
Character: Dr Okoye
Released: December 17, 1980
Type: Movie
Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.
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Ashanti
Title: Ashanti
Character: Ansok
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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The Wild Geese
Title: The Wild Geese
Character: Julius Limbani
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.