Name
Zakes Mokae
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1934-08-05
Deathday
2009-09-11 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Johannesburg, South Africa
Biography
Zakes Makgona Mokae (August 5, 1934 – September 11, 2009) was a South African stage and screen actor. For his role in playwright Athol Fugard's "Master Harold"...and the Boys, Mokae won the 1982 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. His major films include Cry Freedom (1987), A Dry White Season (1989), The Island (1980), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), Outbreak (1995), and Waterworld (1995). He also had memorable guest appearances on many television series such as The X-Files, The West Wing, and Monk.
Known For
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In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet,...
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A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to hav...
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Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.......
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A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling ...
- 1968 Separation as Uncredited
- 1981 Roar as Committee
- 1992 Dust Devil as Ben Mukurob
- 1989 Dad as Dr. Chad
- 1983 A Caribbean Mystery as Cap. Daventry
- 1991 The Doctor as Dr. Charles Reed (uncredited)
- 1998 Krippendorf's Tribe as Sulukim
- 1995 Outbreak as Dr. Benjamin Iwabi
- 1980 The Island as Wescott
- 1988 The Serpent and the Rainbow as Dargent Peytraud
- 1989 A Dry White Season as Stanley Makhaya
- 1991 Body Parts as Detective Sawchuck
- 1995 Vampire in Brooklyn as Dr. Zeko
- 1995 Waterworld as Priam
- 1987 Cry Freedom as Father Kani
- 1989 Gross Anatomy as Dr. Banumbra
- 1985 'Master Harold'... and the Boys as Sam
- 1970 Fragment of Fear as (uncredited)
- 1976 The River Niger
- 1957 Dark Africa as Sergeant (as Zachariah Nokae)
- 1962 Dilemma as Steven Sitole
- 1994 In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid as Self
- 1966 Jemima + Johnny as Blind Man
- 1993 Percy & Thunder as Pee Wee
- 1967 The Comedians as Michel
- 1978 One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story as Pee Wee Spencer
- 1994 Rise & Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story as Harding
- 1990 Parker Kane as Kid Lightning
- 1993 Slaughter of the Innocents as Library Janitor
- 1965 Darling as Black Man at French Party (uncredited)
- 1991 A Rage in Harlem as Big Kathy
- 1970 The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer as Mugger (uncredited)
- 1975 Starsky & Hutch ( 2 episodes ) as Lord Harry
- 2002 Monk ( 1 episode ) as Tonday
- 1982 Knight Rider ( 1 episode ) as Tsombe Kuna
- 1997 Oz ( 2 episodes ) as Kipekemie Jara
- 1993 The X-Files ( 1 episode ) as Diabria
- 1999 The West Wing ( 1 episode ) as President Nimbala
- 1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Edgar Barkley
- 1995 Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Bakoosa (voice)
- 1990 Dream On ( 2 episodes ) as U.N. Dignitary
- 1987 A Different World ( 1 episode ) as Marcus Mpepo
- 1979 Roots: The Next Generations ( 1 episode ) as African Minister
- 1964 Story Parade ( 1 episode ) as Nathaniel
- 1964 Theatre 625 ( 1 episode ) as Shale
- 1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Nominee
- 1967 ITV Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Gavin Lesotho
- 1969 ITV Saturday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as John Smith
- 1969 Plays of Today ( 1 episode ) as Nguru
- 1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Colonel Okpara
