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Winston Ntshona is a Actor Sud africain born on 6 october 1941 at Port Elizabeth (South africa)

Winston Ntshona

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Nationality South africa
Birth 6 october 1941 at Port Elizabeth (South africa)
Death 2 august 2018 (at 76 years)

Winston Ntshona (born 6 October 1941) is a South African playwright and actor.

Biography

D'abord ouvrier d'usine, Winston Ntshona rejoint en 1967 la compagnie théâtrale The Serpent Players, dont John Kani et Athol Fugard, ses compatriotes, sont membres. Tous trois écrivent ensemble deux pièces entrées depuis au répertoire, Sizwe Banzi est mort (Sizwe Banzi is dead, créée en 1972) et L'Île (The Island, créée en 1973), que Ntshona et Kani interprètent. Ils les présentent ensuite en tournée, notamment à Londres (1974) et à New York (Broadway, 1974-1975), malgré les difficultés auxquelles ils sont confrontés dans leur pays, où sévit alors l'apartheid, régime dénoncé par les deux pièces. Comme il ne cesse de militer contre ledit régime, entre autres par l'expression théâtrale, Ntshona sera d'ailleurs plusieurs fois emprisonné. Pour leur interprétation à Broadway des pièces pré-citées, Ntshona et Kani remportent chacun, en 1975, un Tony Award du meilleur acteur. Notons qu'une troisième pièce critiquant l'apartheid, elle-aussi écrite par Fugard, Kani et Ntshona, Inculpation pour violation de la loi sur l'immoralité (Statements after an Arrest under the Immorality Act, créée en 1972), sera également présentée à Londres en 1974.

Outre le théâtre, Winston Ntshona est acteur au cinéma, où il apparaît à partir de 1978. Un de ses rôles emblématiques, en 1989, est celui de Gordon Ngubene dans Une saison blanche et sèche (aux côtes de Donald Sutherland), film américain adapté du roman éponyme d'André Brink, dénonçant précisément l'apartheid.

Usually with

Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard
(2 films)
Marius Weyers
Marius Weyers
(3 films)
John Glen
John Glen
(1 films)
Edward Zwick
Edward Zwick
(1 films)
Neil Corbould
Neil Corbould
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Winston Ntshona (12 films)

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Actor

Blood Diamond, 2h22
Directed by Edward Zwick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about writers, Films about journalists, Political films
Actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, Arnold Vosloo, David Harewood, Michael Sheen
Roles vieil homme
Rating79% 3.9971453.9971453.9971453.9971453.997145
It is 1999 and Sierra Leone is ravaged by major political unrest. Rebel factions such as the Revolutionary United Front frequently terrorize the countryside, intimidating Mende locals and enslaving many to harvest diamonds, which fund their increasingly successful war effort. One such unfortunate is fisherman Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) from Shenge, who has been assigned to a workforce overseen by Captain Poison (David Harewood), a ruthless warlord.
I Dreamed of Africa, 1h54
Directed by Hugh Hudson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Kim Basinger, Vincent Pérez, Eva Marie Saint, Liam Aiken, Daniel Craig, Lance Reddick
Roles Old Pokot Chief
Rating55% 2.7509152.7509152.7509152.7509152.750915
Kuki Gallmann (Kim Basinger), a divorced Italian socialite, changes her life after surviving a car crash. She marries Paolo (Vincent Perez) a man she doesn't know well and moves with him and her young son to Kenya, where they start a ranch. She faces many problems, both physical and emotional, that will test her.
Tarzan and the Lost City, 1h44
Directed by Carl Schenkel
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Films about apes, L'enfance marginalisée, Tarzan films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Casper Van Dien, Jane March, Steven Waddington, Winston Ntshona, Rapulana Seiphemo, Paulo Tocha
Roles Mugambe
Rating40% 2.0090252.0090252.0090252.0090252.009025
À la veille de son mariage avec Jane, Tarzan, doit retourner en Afrique pour lutter contre des mercenaires qui cherchent à violer le secret d'une civilisation perdue.
The Air Up There, 1h47
Directed by Paul Michael Glaser
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa, Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Kevin Bacon, Yolanda Vazquez, Winston Ntshona, Sean McCann, Dennis Patrick, Nigel Miguel
Roles Urudu
Rating56% 2.80482.80482.80482.80482.8048
Jimmy Dolan (Kevin Bacon) is a college basketball assistant coach who wants to find a new star for his team since he believes this will get him a promotion to head coach at the school. He sees a home video of a prospect named Saleh and travels to Africa to recruit him. Upon arriving in this continent, Dolan finds himself confronted not only with the challenges of basketball but also with the challenges of adjusting to and learning how to live in the midst of a brand-new culture. Though Dolan is initially opposed by Saleh's father who is also the leader of the village, he later agrees to let his son play. Dolan and Saleh both teach each other life lessons before they take the court for one final game with everything on the line. One of the most dramatic scenes in the film involves the instruction of Saleh by Dolan regarding the "Jimmy Dolan Shake and Bake.
The Power of One, 2h7
Directed by John G. Avildsen
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism, Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Political films
Actors Stephen Dorff, Armin Mueller-Stahl, John Gielgud, Morgan Freeman, Daniel Craig, Simon Fenton
Roles Mlungisi
Rating71% 3.5506953.5506953.5506953.5506953.550695
Born in 1930 to a recently widowed Englishwoman on a homestead in rural Natal, little Peter Philip is schooled in the ways of England by his mother and the ways of Africa by a Zulu nanny (Nomadlozi Kubheka), whose son Tonderai is also his best friend. Their easy life is forever shattered, however, when the farm's cattle are claimed by rinderpest. PK's mother succumbs to a nervous breakdown, and he is sent away to a conservative Afrikaans boarding school while she recovers.
A Dry White Season, 1h37
Directed by Euzhan Palcy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Politic
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism
Actors Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Jürgen Prochnow, Zakes Mokae, Susannah Harker, Susan Sarandon
Roles Gordon Ngubene
Rating69% 3.495763.495763.495763.495763.49576
In 1976, in South Africa during Apartheid, Ben Du Toit (Donald Sutherland) is a South African school teacher.
Wild Geese II, 2h5
Directed by Peter Hunt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Scott Glenn, Barbara Carrera, Edward Fox, Laurence Olivier, Robert Webber, Kenneth Haigh
Roles Julius Limbani (archive footage)
Rating48% 2.4074652.4074652.4074652.4074652.407465
London 1982 As the only surviving Nazi leader in captivity, Rudolf Hess (Laurence Olivier) has secrets that could destroy the careers of prominent political figures, secrets an international news network will pay any price to get.
Gandhi
Gandhi (1982)
, 3h11
Directed by Richard Attenborough
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism
Actors Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Martin Sheen, Edward Fox, Roshan Seth, John Gielgud
Roles Porter
Rating79% 3.9978753.9978753.9978753.9978753.997875
The screenplay of Gandhi is available as a published book. The film opens with a statement from the filmmakers explaining their approach to the problem of filming Gandhi's complex life story:
The Dogs of War, 1h50
Directed by John Irvin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Monde imaginaire
Actors Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely, Hugh Millais, Paul Freeman, Jean-François Stévenin
Roles Dr Okoye
Rating62% 3.146083.146083.146083.146083.14608
As the film opens, mercenaries Jamie Shannon, Drew, Derek, Michel, Terry and Richard are making a hasty exit from a war-torn Central American country by forcing their way onto a government civilian DC-3 airplane. When a Central American officer demands Richard's body to be removed to make room for others, one of the mercenaries shows he is still able to safely grasp the spoon of a hand grenade and Drew insists his friend "goes home". After Shannon returns home, he gets an offer from a British businessman named Endean who is interested in "certain resources" of a small African nation named Zangaro. Endean pays Shannon $15,000 to go on a reconnaissance mission in Zangaro which is run by a paranoid and brutal dictator named General Kimba.
Ashanti
Ashanti (1979)
, 1h58
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about slavery, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Erotic thriller films, Chase films
Actors Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Akosua Busia, Kabir Bedi, Eric Pohlmann, Beverly Johnson
Roles Ansok
Rating54% 2.705452.705452.705452.705452.70545
Ashanti is an action adventure film, set against the background of modern day slave trading, with a man who determinedly takes on a perilous journey in order to find his beautiful wife, who has been kidnapped by brutal slave traders. David and Anansa Linderby (Caine and Johnson respectively) are doctors with the World Health Organization. On a medical mission carrying out an inoculation programme, they visit a West African village. While David takes photographs of tribal dancers, Anansa goes swimming alone. She is attacked and abducted by slave traders led by Suleiman (Peter Ustinov), who mistake her for an Ashanti tribeswoman. The police can do nothing to find her and David has almost given up hope when he hears rumours that Anansa has been kidnapped by Sulieman to be sold to Arab Prince Hassan (Omar Sharif). The African authorities deny that the slave trade even exists. So David must find help in a shadowy world where the rescuers of slaves are just as ruthless as the traders themselves. As David tracks her across Africa and the Sahara desert, he is helped by a member of the Anti-Slavery League (Rex Harrison), a mercenary helicopter pilot (William Holden), and Malik (Kabir Bedi) a tribesman who is seeking revenge on Suleiman.
The Wild Geese, 2h10
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, John Glen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Monde imaginaire, Films about racism
Actors Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Krüger, Stewart Granger, Frank Finlay
Roles Julius Limbani
Rating67% 3.3995053.3995053.3995053.3995053.399505
Allen Faulkner (Richard Burton), a British mercenary and former army colonel, arrives in London to meet the rich and ruthless merchant banker Sir Edward Matherson (Stewart Granger). The latter proposes a risky operation to rescue Julius Limbani (Winston Ntshona), the imprisoned leader of a central African nation who is due to be executed by General Ndofa, the man who deposed him. Limbani is currently being held in a remote prison in Zembala, guarded by a unit of Ndofa's personal troops known as the "Simbas".