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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998
as Sulukim
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
1995
as Dr. Zeko
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
1995
as Priam
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
1995
as Dr. Benjamin Iwabi
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
1994
as Harding
The true story of Dennis Byrd, his football career, his terrible accident, and his miraculous recovery and rehabilitation.
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
1994
as Self
A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid.
Slaughter of the Innocents
1993
as Library Janitor
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
1993
as Pee Wee
A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.
Dust Devil
1992
as Ben Mukurob
A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.
Body Parts
1991
as Detective Sawchuck
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
1991
as Dr. Charles Reed (uncredited)
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
1991
as Big Kathy
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
1990
as Kid Lightning
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
1989
as Dr. Chad
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
1989
as Dr. Banumbra
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
1989
as Stanley Makhaya
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
1988
as Dargent Peytraud
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
1987
as Father Kani
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
1985
as Sam
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
1983
as Cap. Daventry
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
1981
as Committee
Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.
The Island
1980
as Wescott
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
1978
as Pee Wee Spencer
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
1976
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
1970
as Mugger (uncredited)
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
1970
as (uncredited)
A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.
Separation
1968
as Uncredited
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
1967
as Michel
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
Jemima + Johnny
1966
as Blind Man
A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails.
Darling
1965
as Black Man at French Party (uncredited)
The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored wom...
Dilemma
1962
as Steven Sitole
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)
South African Movie