John Kani: movies and TV shows
John Kani has 52 credits in the archive: 44 films and 8 TV series, from 1970 to 2024. Highest rated: What If...? (8.0/10).
Career timeline
1970 – 2024 · busiest year: 2009 (5 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Mufasa: The Lion King | Rafiki (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 80 |
| 2023 | Murder Mystery 2 | Colonel Ulenga | Film | 6.4 | 79 |
| 2023 | Beyond the Light Barrier | Narrator/Self | Film | — | 79 |
| 2021 | What If...? | T'Chaka (voice) | TV | 8.0 | 77 |
| 2021 | Marvel Studios Legends | T'Chaka (archive footage) (uncredited) | TV | 7.4 | 77 |
| 2021 | Seal Team | Brick (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 77 |
| 2019 | The Lion King | Rafiki (voice) | Film | 7.1 | 75 |
| 2019 | Murder Mystery | Colonel Ulenga | Film | 6.3 | 75 |
| 2019 | The Space: Theatre of Survival | Film | — | 75 | |
| 2018 | Black Panther | T'Chaka | Film | 7.4 | 74 |
| 2016 | Captain America: Civil War | King T'Chaka | Film | 7.4 | 72 |
| 2014 | 1994: The Bloody Miracle | Narrator | Film | 10.0 | 70 |
| 2012 | Jail Caesar | Marius | Film | 6.3 | 68 |
| 2012 | Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard | Self | Film | — | 68 |
| 2011 | Coriolanus | General Cominius | Film | 5.8 | 67 |
| 2011 | How to Steal 2 Million | Julius Twala Snr. | Film | 6.5 | 67 |
| 2010 | White Lion | Old Gisani | Film | 6.4 | 66 |
| 2009 | Endgame | Oliver Tambo | Film | 5.9 | 65 |
| 2009 | Nothing But The Truth | Sipho | Film | — | 65 |
| 2009 | Nothing But The Truth | Film | — | 65 | |
| 2009 | Nothing But The Truth | Film | — | 65 | |
| 2009 | Nothing But The Truth | Film | — | 65 | |
| 2008 | Wallander | Max Khulu | TV | 7.4 | 64 |
| 2008 | The Bird Can't Fly | Stone | Film | 7.0 | 64 |
| 2001 | Final Solution | Rev. Peter Lekota | Film | 8.8 | 57 |
| 1999 | The Tichborne Claimant | Bogle | Film | 8.7 | 55 |
| 1997 | Kini & Adams | Ben | Film | 6.2 | 53 |
| 1996 | Silent Witness | Dr. Phiri | TV | 7.6 | 52 |
| 1996 | The Ghost and the Darkness | Samuel | Film | 6.8 | 52 |
| 1995 | Soweto Green | Dr. Curtis | Film | 9.0 | 51 |
| 1994 | In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid | Self | Film | 8.0 | 50 |
| 1992 | African Skies | TV | 7.0 | 48 | |
| 1992 | Sarafina! | School Principal | Film | 6.1 | 48 |
| 1990 | The Native Who Caused All the Trouble | Film | 8.0 | 46 | |
| 1989 | A Dry White Season | Julius | Film | 6.7 | 45 |
| 1989 | Options | Jonas | Film | 3.8 | 45 |
| 1989 | Othello | Othello | Film | 7.0 | 45 |
| 1987 | An African Dream | Khatana | Film | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1987 | Saturday Night at the Palace | Film | 4.0 | 43 | |
| 1986 | Miss Julie | John | Film | 9.0 | 42 |
| 1985 | 'Master Harold'... and the Boys | Willie | Film | 6.6 | 41 |
| 1981 | The Grass Is Singing | Moses | Film | 4.7 | 37 |
| 1981 | A Sizwe Bansi Workshop | Himself | Film | — | 37 |
| 1980 | Marigolds in August | Melton | Film | 8.0 | 36 |
| 1978 | The Wild Geese | Sgt. Jesse Blake | Film | 6.8 | 34 |
| 1978 | Victims of Apartheid | George O'Brien | Film | — | 34 |
| 1974 | Playhouse | Styles / Buntu | TV | 7.0 | 30 |
| 1974 | Playhouse | TV | 7.0 | 30 | |
| 1974 | Sizwe Bansi Is Dead | Styles/Buntu | Film | — | 30 |
| 1974 | Sizwe Bansi Is Dead | Film | — | 30 | |
| 1970 | Play for Today | George O'Brien | TV | 6.6 | 26 |
| The Man in the Mirror | Film | — | — |