Lionel Ngakane
Acting
Biography
Lionel Ngakane (17 July 1928 – 26 November 2003) was a South African filmmaker and actor, who lived in exile in the United Kingdom from the 1950s until 1994, when he returned to South Africa after the end of apartheid. His 1965 film Jemima and Johnny, inspired by the 1958 "race riots" in Notting Hill, London, won awards at the Venice and Rimini film festivals. In the 1960s, Ngakane was a founding member of the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI) and Fespaco, the Panafrican Film and Tel
🎬 Movies (16)
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
1994
Self
Victims of Apartheid
1978
Mokwe
The Squeeze
1977
West Indian
Child of Hope
1975
Mutumbulua
Baobab: Portrait of a Tree
1971
Legend Storyteller (voice)
It’s the Only Way to Go
1970
Two Gentlemen Sharing
1969
Bill
Wind Versus Polygamy
1968
Ofodile
The Painted Smile
1962
Barman
Nothing Barred
1961
Convict
The Night We Got the Bird
1960
Porter
Nor the Moon by Night
1958
Nimrod
The Mark of the Hawk
1957
African Doctor
Safari
1956
Makora
Duel in the Jungle
1954
Servant
Cry, the Beloved Country
1951
Absolom Kumalo
