Movies
TV Shows
Actors
John Kani
Nov 30, 1943 (82 years old) in New Brighton, Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Known For
Silent Witness
Play for Today
What If...?
Playhouse
Mufasa: The Lion King
Credits
2024 ·
Mufasa: The Lion King
as Rafiki (voice)
2023 ·
Beyond the Light Barrier
as Narrator/Self
2023 ·
Murder Mystery 2
as Colonel Ulenga
2021 ·
Seal Team
as Brick (voice)
2021 ·
What If...?
as T'Chaka (voice)
2021 ·
Marvel Studios Legends
as T'Chaka (archive footage) (uncredited)
2019 ·
The Lion King
as Rafiki (voice)
2019 ·
The Space: Theatre of Survival
as
2019 ·
Murder Mystery
as Colonel Ulenga
2018 ·
Black Panther
as T'Chaka
2016 ·
Captain America: Civil War
as King T'Chaka
2014 ·
1994: The Bloody Miracle
as Narrator
2012 ·
Jail Caesar
as Marius
2012 ·
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
as Self
2011 ·
How to Steal 2 Million
as Julius Twala Snr.
2011 ·
Coriolanus
as General Cominius
2010 ·
White Lion
as Old Gisani
2009 ·
Nothing But The Truth
as Sipho
2009 ·
Endgame
as Oliver Tambo
2008 ·
Wallander
as Max Khulu
2008 ·
The Bird Can't Fly
as Stone
2001 ·
Final Solution
as Rev. Peter Lekota
1999 ·
The Tichborne Claimant
as Bogle
1997 ·
Kini & Adams
as Ben
1996 ·
The Ghost and the Darkness
as Samuel
1996 ·
Silent Witness
as Dr. Phiri
1995 ·
Soweto Green
as Dr. Curtis
1994 ·
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
as Self
1992 ·
African Skies
as
1992 ·
Sarafina!
as School Principal
1990 ·
The Native Who Caused All the Trouble
as
1989 ·
Othello
as Othello
1989 ·
A Dry White Season
as Julius
1989 ·
Options
as Jonas
1987 ·
Saturday Night at the Palace
as
1987 ·
An African Dream
as Khatana
1986 ·
Miss Julie
as John
1985 ·
'Master Harold'... and the Boys
as Willie
1981 ·
The Grass Is Singing
as Moses
1981 ·
A Sizwe Bansi Workshop
as Himself
1980 ·
Marigolds in August
as Melton
1978 ·
Victims of Apartheid
as George O'Brien
1978 ·
The Wild Geese
as Sgt. Jesse Blake
1974 ·
Sizwe Bansi is Dead
as Styles/Buntu
1974 ·
Playhouse
as Styles / Buntu
1970 ·
Play for Today
as George O'Brien
2026 ·
The Man in the Mirror
as
