Ken Gampu

Ken Gampu

Nacimiento : 1929-08-28, Germiston, South Africa

Muerte : 2003-11-04

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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

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Ken Gampu

Películas

A Reasonable Man
Headman
With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.
Black Velvet Band
Witch Doctor
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.
Fools
The Elder
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.
Aristotle's Plot
Policeman
Tourneur, a self-proclaimed cinéaste, feuds with Cinema and his gang, who are obsessed with foreign action movies.
Misión final 2 (Cyborg Cop 2)
Police Chief
Jack, un estrambótico y solitario policía pierde a su compañero a manos de un terrorista demente durante una operación de rescate de rehenes. Finalmente consigue enviarlo al corredor de la muerte, pero lo que Jack no sabe es que el terrorista será reclutado y transformado en un cyborg por un "Grupo Antiterrorista". Cuando el cyborg "Spartacus" despierta accidentalmente, mata a los científicos y a los invitados presentes y comienza a preparar las cosas para crear un Imperio Cyborg. Sólo Jack y sus amigos sabrán cómo detenerle.
Rescate suicida
Ndumo
Siguiendo las profecías de Nostradamus, un químico loco llamado Frank pretende envenenar el agua que abastece a la población. Para llevar a cabo su plan, contratará los servicios de un grupo de Ninjas que eliminarán a cualquiera que se ponga en su camino, y raptarán a la esposa de Ross, un ex agente de la CIA, con tal de chantajear al gobierno.
Oh Schucks...! Here Comes UNTAG
Tjicombo
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.
El guerrero americano 4
Dr. Tamba
Cuando Brad Norris y tres de sus comandos de la Fuerza Delta son capturados por Ninjas Negros en un bosque tropical africano, la oficina central en Washington D.C. avisa entonces a Sean Davidson y Carl Brackston para rescatarles. Pero ellos también son capturados y la misión de rescate pasa a un sólo hombre, Joe Armstrong.
Enemy Unseen
Malanga
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."
Quiet Thunder
President Zalabok
A bush pilot and a senator's wife try to survive in the jungles of Africa after witnessing an assassination.
Act of Piracy
Herb Bunting
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...
Bush Shrink
Gapu
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.
Operation Hit Squad
Ken
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.
Scavengers
Dr. Nduma
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.
John Ross: An African Adventure
Jacob
Zulu tribesmen escort a shipwrecked 19th-century English sailor on a 600-mile round trip for supplies.
Jake Speed
Joe Smith
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.
Van der Merwe PI
Wiley
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.
Las minas del rey Salomón
Umbopo
Allan Quatermain, un famoso cazador, emprende un safari por el corazón de Africa. Al mismo tiempo, Elizabeth Curtis, acompañada de su hermano John, se interna en la zona más inhóspita del continente para buscar a su marido, desaparecido mientras buscaba las minas del Rey.
City of Blood
Black Leader
A medical examiner investigating a series of prostitute murders discovers that the culprit is an ancient tribal witch doctor come back to life.
Claws
Moses
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.
Bullet on the Run
Joe Bullet
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.
My Friend
Khumalo
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.
Mata y mata otra vez
Gorilla
Dr. Horatio Kane ha sido secuestrado y está siendo a para crear un ejército de artistas marciales que le ayudarán a un dictador a dominar el mundo. Su hija, Kandy Kane, solicita la ayuda de Steve Chase y algunos de sus amigos para rescatar a su padre antes de que sea demasiado tarde.
Juego de buitres
Sixpence
En plena lucha del pueblo de Zimbawe, por recuperar su libertad en Rodhesia, un grupo de empresarios especuladores británicos, sin escrupulos tratan de hacer negocios con el gobierno rodhesiano, con la venta de unos helicópteros, sin importar ni el fin ni la causa. A su vez la guerrilla independentista, en su brutal lucha en la selva, trata de impedir la operación con métodos poco ortodoxos.
Los dioses deben estar locos
President
Los Bushman son una simpática y apacible tribu africana que vive armoniosamente lejos de la civilización. Un día, Xi, uno de sus miembros, recoge en la llanura una botella vacía de un refresco de Coca-cola. Pensando que se trata de un regalo de los dioses, la lleva a la tribu. El extraño objeto, codiciado por todos, acabará por romper la paz que reinaba entre los Bushman.
Flashpoint Africa
Matari
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.
King Solomon's Treasure
Umpslopogas
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.
Amanecer Zulú
Mantshonga
1879 el Imperio Británico trata de imponer su voluntad sobre el poderoso rey zulú Cetshwayo, que controla parte de la zona de ZuluLand. Al negarse Cetshwayo a cumplir las órdenes de su Majestad la Reina de Inglaterra, los británicos deciden movilizar sus tropas lideradas por el General Chelmsford hacia los dominios de los zulús para someterlos confiando en su aparente superioridad táctica, técnica, militar y armamentística.
Patos salvajes
Alexander
Película de acción con un argumento muy similar al de "Los profesionales", pero ambientada en África. Granger es un hombre de negocios británico que contrata a Burton y sus mercenarios para realizar una peligrosa misión en Rhodesia: liberar a un líder del movimiento liberal negro liberal que está en poder de un dictador.
Slavers
Musulna
A story about slave hunting, colonialism, revenge and love.
Los tigres no lloran
Minister Manga
Un líder africano enfermo es ingresado en un hospital. Un paciente le secuestra, pero nada es lo que parece...
Chantaje al Pentágono
Sue
Geoffrey Graves es un agente secreto retirado que es llamado de regreso y enviado a Sudáfrica para rescatar a un ingeniero aeroespacial secuestrado antes de que pueda revelar los secretos del "transbordador solar" experimental del gobierno.
Death of a Snowman
Steve Chaka
A white cop and a black reporter join forces to investigate apparent vigilante killings in the South African underworld.
Forever Young, Forever Free
Thomas Luke
"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.
La diosa virgen
Gampu
El destino hace que una hermosa mujer que naufraga sea hallada por una peligrosa tribu africana, quienes la confunden con una diosa blanca de una leyenda. En la tribu adoran a la diosa y creen que puede disfrutar de la vida eterna mientras siga siendo una virgen. Pero el encuentro de un hombre blanco hará poner en riesgo el futuro de la venerada virgen.
Joe Bullet
Joe Bullet
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!
Rogue Lion
Mashoda
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.
All the Way to Paris
Sudanese Delegate at Conference
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.
La presa desnuda
Leader of the warriors
A finales del siglo XIX, en la selva africana, un guía llamado Wilde conduce un safari cuyo objetivo es traficar con el marfil de los colmillos de elefante. Tras encontrarse con una tribu belicosa, Wilde aconseja apaciguar a los guerreros ofreciéndoles un regalo simbólico, pero el arrogante jefe de la expedición, se niega, ofendiendo así al jefe de la tribu. Como consecuencia de ello, los cazadores son hechos prisioneros y asesinados. El único superviviente es el guía, al que el jefe de la tribu le ofrece la oportunidad de salvarse. Armado tan solo con un cuchillo, lo abandonan en la jungla y lo persiguen. Si consiguen alcanzarlo, lo matarán. En caso contrario, podrá escapar. Pero Wilde no sólo tendrá que eludir a sus perseguidores, sino que además habrá de defenderse de las fieras feroces que le salgan al paso.
Dingaka
Ntuku Makwena
An African tribesman seeks revenge against the people who murdered his daughter.