Zakes Mokae

Zakes Mokae

1934-08-05 Johannesburg, South Africa 32 Credits

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 Win...

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Krippendorf's Tribe

Krippendorf's Tribe

1998

as Sulukim

4.5
Acting

After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a h...

Vampire in Brooklyn

Vampire in Brooklyn

1995

as Dr. Zeko

5.1
Acting

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 me...

Waterworld

Waterworld

1995

as Priam

6.2
Acting

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 floati...

Outbreak

Outbreak

1995

as Dr. Benjamin Iwabi

6.6
Acting

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 sprea...

Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story

Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story

1994

as Harding

2.0
Acting

The true story of Dennis Byrd, his football career, his terrible accident, and his miraculous recovery and rehabilitation.

In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid

In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid

1994

as Self

Acting

A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid.

Slaughter of the Innocents

Slaughter of the Innocents

1993

as Library Janitor

5.4
Acting

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...

Percy & Thunder

Percy & Thunder

1993

as Pee Wee

Acting

A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.

Dust Devil

Dust Devil

1992

as Ben Mukurob

6.3
Acting

A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.

Body Parts

Body Parts

1991

as Detective Sawchuck

5.8
Acting

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 ...

The Doctor

The Doctor

1991

as Dr. Charles Reed (uncredited)

6.4
Acting

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 s...

A Rage in Harlem

A Rage in Harlem

1991

as Big Kathy

5.5
Acting

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 unsavo...

Parker Kane

Parker Kane

1990

as Kid Lightning

4.2
Acting

Parker Kane is a former Police Detective turned Private Investigator. When close friend Joey is murdered, leaving behind a briefcase full of money, Ka...

Dad

Dad

1989

as Dr. Chad

6.3
Acting

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...

Gross Anatomy

Gross Anatomy

1989

as Dr. Banumbra

5.7
Acting

Joe Slovak is a brilliant first-year med student whose casual, nonconforming approach to life gets tested when he enrolls in Gross Anatomy, the toughe...

A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989

as Stanley Makhaya

6.7
Acting

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 w...

The Serpent and the Rainbow

The Serpent and the Rainbow

1988

as Dargent Peytraud

6.4
Acting

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...

Cry Freedom

Cry Freedom

1987

as Father Kani

7.0
Acting

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods...

'Master Harold'... and the Boys

'Master Harold'... and the Boys

1985

as Sam

6.5
Acting

When Harold, a young white man, learns that his alcoholic, handicapped father is returning home, his frustration turns into racist viciousness against...

A Caribbean Mystery

A Caribbean Mystery

1983

as Cap. Daventry

5.8
Acting

Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort...

Roar

Roar

1981

as Committee

5.9
Acting

Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.

The Island

The Island

1980

as Wescott

5.2
Acting

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 hi...

One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story

One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story

1978

as Pee Wee Spencer

5.5
Acting

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 convictio...

The River Niger

The River Niger

1976

6.8
Acting

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...

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

1970

as Mugger (uncredited)

6.1
Acting

Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into p...

Fragment of Fear

Fragment of Fear

1970

as (uncredited)

5.9
Acting

A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.

Separation

Separation

1968

as Uncredited

5.4
Acting

Separation concerns the inner life of a woman during a period of breakdown – marital, and possibly mental. Her past and (possible?) future are reveale...

The Comedians

The Comedians

1967

as Michel

6.1
Acting

American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.

Jemima + Johnny

Jemima + Johnny

1966

as Blind Man

Acting

A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails.

Darling

Darling

1965

as Black Man at French Party (uncredited)

6.7
Acting

The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored wom...

Dilemma

Dilemma

1962

as Steven Sitole

6.1
Acting

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 a...

Dark Africa

1957

as Sergeant (as Zachariah Nokae)

Acting

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