Personal Info
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 Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO).
Ngakane was born in Pretoria, South Africa.[2] In 1936, …
Filmography
Movies
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
as Self
Victims of Apartheid
as Mokwe
The Squeeze
as West Indian
Child of Hope
as Mutumbulua
Baobab: Portrait of a Tree
as Legend Storyteller (voice)
It’s the Only Way to Go
Two Gentlemen Sharing
as Bill
Wind Versus Polygamy
as Ofodile
The Painted Smile
as Barman
Nothing Barred
as Convict
