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Winston Ntshona

Winston Ntshona

Birthday: 1941-10-06 | Place of Birth: Port Elizabeth, South Africa

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Winston Ntshona (born 6 October 1941) is a South African playwright and actor. Born in Port Elizabeth, Ntshona worked alongside fellow South African Athol Fugard on several occasions and played a minor role in Richard Attenborough's acclaimed film Gandhi. Ntshona also played deposed President Julius Limbani, the subject of a rescue attempt in The Wild Geese (1977). Limbani is based on Moise Tshombe. With Fugard and John Kani, Ntshona wrote the 1973 play The Island, in which he and Kani starred in a number of major international productions over the next thirty years. He and Kani were co-winners of the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for their performance in both The Island and Sizwe Banzi is Dead, which he also co-wrote. Description above from the Wikipedia article Winston Ntshona, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2001
Malunde

as    Grandfather Khumalo

1998
Tarzan and the Lost City

as    Mugambe

1991
Night of the Cyclone

as    Quett

1989
A Dry White Season

as    Gordon Ngubene

1988
The Stick

as    The Witchdoctor

1981
The Dogs of War

as    Dr Okoye