Ken Gampu
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Biography: Ken Gampu (born 28 August 1929 in Germiston, South Africa; died 4 November 2003 in Vosloorus, South Africa) was a South African actor. Before he began his career, Gampu was a physical training instructor, salesman, interpreter and police officer. His first acting job was in Athol Fugard's play, No Good Friday (1958). His big break came in the 1965 film Dingaka by Jamie Uys. The same year, he had a significant role in Cornel Wilde's African adventure film, The Naked Prey. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Gampu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Germiston, South Africa
Adult: No
Birthday: August 28, 1929
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 04, 2003
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The Gods Must Be Crazy
Overview: A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-10
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American Ninja 4: The Annihilation
Overview: The two American Ninjas, Joe Armstrong and Sean Davidson, team up to do battle against a terrorist and his band of Ninjas.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-30
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King Solomon's Mines
Overview: Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who has been abducted for his knowledge of the legendary mines of King Solomon. As the kidnappers, led by sinister German military officer Bockner, journey into the wilds of Africa, Allan and Jesse track the party and must contend with fierce natives and dangerous creatures, among other perils.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-22
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Lethal Ninja
Overview: An American ninja's wife is held hostage by a sadistic Nazi chemist on an Asian island. He teams up with an African-American ninja to rescue her.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-05-08
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John Ross: An African Adventure
Overview: Zulu tribesmen escort a shipwrecked 19th-century English sailor on a 600-mile round trip for supplies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Oh Schucks...! Here Comes UNTAG
Overview: Kwagga Robertse owns a farm shop in the fictional Southern African country of Nambabwe and usually cons foreign tourists by pretending to kill a lion, thus earning him the nickname 'Urumbo' (Lion Killer) from the country's natives. Kwagga is upset when the UN sends a platoon of incompetent soldiers with the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (U.N.T.A.G.), to monitor the peace process, and ensure free and fair elections after the Nambabwean War for Independence. The U.N.T.A.G's American leader, Major Bradick D. Mackay and his second-in-command, Captain Zapman are offered a diamond worth a lot of money in the U.S., and they must pay 200,000 USD to Duan Robertse, Kwagga's competitive brother trying to buy a farm left to them by their dead father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-30
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The Naked Prey
Overview: A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last surviving member is given "The Lion's Chance" by the tribal leader to be hunted down by a party of tribal warriors.
Genres: Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-01
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City of Blood
Overview: A medical examiner investigating a series of prostitute murders discovers that the culprit is an ancient tribal witch doctor come back to life.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Black Trash
Overview: A white cop and a black reporter join forces to investigate apparent vigilante killings in the South African underworld.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-06
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Kill and Kill Again
Overview: Dr. Horatio Kane has been kidnapped, and is being forced to create an army of martial artists who will help take over the world. His daughter, Kandy Kane, enlists the help of Steve Chase (and a few of his friends) to rescue her father before it's too late.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-01
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A Reasonable Man
Overview: With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-13
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Fools
Overview: Charterston Township 1990. Professor Zamani is respected in the township. To be sure, he once raped one of his students but the community turned a blind eye. Zamani used to rail against the apartheid system but those days are long gone. Now he teaches South African history in the Afrikaner language and grudgingly organizes the picnic for National Day, which commemorates the Boers' massacre of the Zulu nation... When Zani, the rape victim's brother, returns from Swaziland where he won a place in school, he is determined to change everything. In the small hours, in the waiting room at Johannesburg station, he runs into Prof. Zamani, who's spent the night on the town. They travel back together to the harsh reality of the township. In due course, Zamani regains some of his pride and Zani, inevitably, loses some of his...under the gaze of the women, who never renounced their dignity.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-02
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Askari
Overview: Set on a game reserve in Africa. Askari is an angry old elephant, the only survivor of the "A' family group which has been anhilitated in a government cull and he has turned rogue. Involved in the culling are Patrick Khumalo, a corrupt government official and Ribshaw, an unscrupulous white poacher accompanied by Ndhlovu, an old African tracker who is being blackmailed by Ribshaw. Anxious to save the elephants are game warden Joss Mckinley and his conservationist wife Paula who is studying and monitoring various family groups of elephants. When Paula's sixteen year old niece Emma Crawshay is orphaned she is sent to live with her aunt and uncle at Morena Game Park. She feels alienated but is gradually drawn into her aunt's passion for her work and her favourite elephant family the 'O' group, in particular a calf named Ollie.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-01
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Slavers
Overview: A story about slave hunting, colonialism, revenge and love.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-24
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Forever Young, Forever Free
Overview: "e’Lollipop" is the extraordinary story of two inseparable South African children, Tsepo and his orphaned friend Jannie. Jannie is sent to a missionary station in Tsepo’s village where they become best friends as Jannie finds his place in his new home. Life is full of childhood fun and antics until tragedy strikes: Jannie, now 10 years old, is seriously injured. In the face of much adversity, Tsepo and his community pull together so that Jannie can get specialised medical treatment. A daunting challenge lies ahead... At what cost will Jannie survive? Tsepo and Jannie’s inspirational story unfolds against the breathtaking backdrops of a dramatic African landscape and New York City in the mid-1970s. "e’Lollipop" is a life-changing story that reminds us of the true value of friendship, community, sacrifice and family - despite our color or creed.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-24
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Claws
Overview: Set on a lonely South African farm, in the 1920’s. The film revolves around a young boy who is forced into manhood when his father is injured in a riding accident and he is left to fend for himself. The boy is terrorized by an unseen animal.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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The Virgin Goddess
Overview: Reworking of H. Ridder Haggard's SHE with softcore sex star Sarli as the white "goddess" who lives among the tribes of South Africa and can enjoy eternal life as long as she remains a virgin. Enter adventurer Bo and the trouble begins.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-08-18
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Game for Vultures
Overview: The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-25
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Joe Bullet
Overview: When local soccer team The Eagles fall prey to a series of onslaughts from a mysterious gangster only a week before the championship final, the team turns to the one man that can help save their chances at victory – Joe Bullet (Ken Gampu). Joe will have to battle against villainous henchmen, escape booby-trap bombs and bring his martial arts expertise to the fore in order to survive an attack from a deadly assassin. In the end he will have to infiltrate the mysterious gangster’s hide-out in a dangerous cat-and-mouse rescue mission to save not only The Eagles’ two kidnapped star players, but that of his beautiful love interest, Beauty (Abigail Kubeka). The odds will be stacked against him, but he’s the man that fights crime, the man that no one can tie down! Joe Bullet!
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Aristotle's Plot
Overview: Tourneur, a self-proclaimed cinéaste, feuds with Cinema and his gang, who are obsessed with foreign action movies.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-06-01
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Van der Merwe PI
Overview: South African beauty and former Miss World, Anneline Kriel stars in this action comedy about Van der Merwe, a struggling private eye. The detective’s bad luck seems set to change when drug lord Jack Barnard hires him to find Barnard’s missing girlfriend, Angel Labuschagne.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: af
Release Date: 1985-11-22
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Bullet on the Run
Overview: Bullet is back, and this time he will have to stake his entire reputation on the line as he goes deep undercover in prison to unfold the mystery of a police corruption ring, being run by one of the most wanted mob bosses in the country, a man known only as Snake.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-21
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Bush Shrink
Overview: In an unstable African country, US psychiatrist Martin Cypher teams up with a street-smart poacher to save his patient and her uncle Kingsley, who runs a diamond mine, from some rebels led by white mercenaries, who took them for ransom.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Dingaka
Overview: An African tribesman seeks revenge against the people who murdered his daughter.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-28
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Scavengers
Overview: A college professor and his ex-girlfriend find themselves being hunted by the CIA, the KGB and an African drug smuggler. Seems they have inadvertently gotten information that would show how the KGB gave the CIA state secrets in return for a cut of the African drug-smuggling market.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-08
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Act of Piracy
Overview: A large motor yacht becomes the focal point in this action tale when a group of mercenaries decide to capture the vessel. The original owner, who was delivering it to Sydney, Australia, is believed dead but is in fact very much alive, and determined to recover the yacht...
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-07
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The Wild Geese
Overview: A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-28
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Zulu Dawn
Overview: In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
Genres: Adventure Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-14
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My Friend
Overview: Two prisoners, a white racist and a black man escape. They discover that the only way to survive is to bury their prejudice and rely on one another.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ny
Release Date: 1982-05-14
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Flashpoint Africa
Overview: A black revolutionary group kidnaps a couple of young white women in a southern African state in the 1970s. They ask for a specific female reporter to interview them. She arrives and decides to stay with them until the girls are released.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Enemy Unseen
Overview: A couple of young scientists, Mel Noble and Roxeanne Tangent, travel to an island in Africa thought to be deserted in search of crocodile life, when African Natives storm the camp and kidnap Roxeanne. Her father, Gordon hires Steiger and his team of investigators to track down the natives that worship crocodiles as sacred animals. The problem is: they can't be seen. With natives in the jungles and crocodiles in the waters, Steiger and his crew must fight to survive and save Roxeanne from being sacrificed in a gruesome ritual with an "Enemy Unseen."
Genres: Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Quiet Thunder
Overview: A bush pilot and a senator's wife try to survive in the jungles of Africa after witnessing an assassination.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-11
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Jake Speed
Overview: Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves lives on paper, but when a young girl is kidnapped and her sister (Karen Kopins) begs the real-life Speed for help, he must find a way to be as gallant as the book hero whose creation he's inspired. Accompanied by the victim's sibling, Speed flies to Africa to see if he's up to the task.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-30
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Cyborg Cop II
Overview: Jack, a cop, loses his partner to a crazed terrorist during a hostage rescue sending the man to death row. What Jack doesn't know is that the terrorist will be taken and turned into a cyborg for the "Anti-Terrorist Group".
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-01
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Mister Deathman
Overview: Geoffrey Graves is a secret agent who comes ourt of retirement for a mission in South Africa. Stella Stevens stars as an enemy agent.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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King Solomon's Treasure
Overview: Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city ruled by a beautiful queen.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-31
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Target of an Assassin
Overview: An ailing African leader is kidnapped by a nurse after being admitted to hospital, and finds himself stuck between two men who have different ideas of what to do with him.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-10
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All the Way to Paris
Overview: When the Russian and American delegates at a global peace conference can't compromise on a conflict, they find themselves tricked into settling the matter with a walking race from Athens to Paris, having hilarious misadventures along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: af
Release Date: 1966-05-05
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Black Velvet Band
Overview: Period drama Black Velvet Band takes us back to Victorian times when a gang of petty crooks find themselves sentenced to transportation to Australia, their ship, however, docks in South Africa and the gang manage to make their escape. The film starred Nick Berry, Chris McHallem and Todd Carty, who had all previously appeared in EastEnders together. The initial idea came from McHallem, whilst Nick Berry, thanks to being the darling of ITV at the time because of his hit show Heartbeat, had the clout to get it made.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-24
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Operation Hit Squad
Overview: A couple of rich women get captured by a group of terrorists, a crack team of mercenaries called Operation Hit Squad are called in to rescue them.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-10
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Rogue Lion
Overview: In South Africa a new young ranger is transferred to a troubled game reserve. He struggles to be accepted by, and help, his boss, fending off poachers and intruding natives, and gets involved with a poacher's daughter he knew from university.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-05
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