Ken Gampu

Ken Gampu

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

Morte : 2003-11-04

História

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

Perfil

Ken Gampu

Filmes

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.
Cyborg Cop 2: O Pior Pesadelo
Police Chief
O agente da narcóticos Jack Ryan dessa vez enfrenta Starkraven, o homem que matou seu companheiro, e que foi transformado em cyborg por uma agência do Governo.
Lethal Ninja
Ndumo
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.
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.
American Ninja 4: O Grande Kickboxer Americano
Dr. Tamba
Quando quatro soldados da "Delta Force" são capturados por ninjas numa floresta africana, Sean Davidson (David Bradley) e Brackston, dois experientes agentes, são enviados para libertá-los, mas após se refugiarem com Sarah, uma enfermeira do Corpo de Paz Americano, eles também são capturados. A única esperança de resgate está nas mãos de Joe Armstrong (Michael Dudikoff), um ex-agente que precisa ser convencido disso até que um terrível plano terrorista para detonar uma bomba nuclear contra um alvo americano é revelado.
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.
As Minas do Rei Salomão
Umbopo
Na África do início do século 20, o aventureiro e caçador de tesouros Allan Quatermain é contratado pela jovem norte-americana Jesse Huston para procurar seu pai arqueólogo, que desapareceu enquanto organizava uma expedição às lendárias Minas do Rei Salomão. Além de diversos perigos, Quatermain e Jesse também enfrentarão um destacamento alemão, liderado pelo Coronel Bockner e um grupo de mercenários sob o comando do vilão turco Dogati. Todos eles em busca da fortuna em diamantes escondida no interior das minas.
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.
Kill and Kill Again
Gorilla
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.
Game for Vultures
Sixpence
The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.
Os Deuses Devem Estar Loucos
President
Uma tribo tem uma vida feliz e tranquila em um remoto deserto da África, mas quando uma garrafa de Coca-Cola cai miraculosamente de um avião, a vida da deles se transforma num caos. O líder da tribo, Xi (N!xau), decide devolver o estranho objeto aos deuses para restaurar a paz no local.
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.
Alvorada Sangrenta
Mantshonga
Na sombra de uma colina chamada Isandlwana, o confiante exército britânico tristemente vai compreender o quanto têm subestimado a habilidade tática e a força da nação Zulu. Na África do Sul de 1879, os administradores da Colônia do Cabo Britânica têm projetos para eliminar os zulus que são um obstáculo para a sua economia colonial. Para atingir esse objetivo, os britânicos apresentam ao rei dos zulus, Cetshwayo, um ultimato impossível de ser cumprido. Querem provocar uma guerra que eles têm certeza de que podem vencer facilmente com seus fuzis e peças de artilharia contra as lanças nativas. No entanto, essa guerra se mostra mais difícil do que o arrogante comandante britânico, Lord Chelmsford, esperava porque seu exército sobrecarregado inutilmente procura um inimigo extremamente evasivo.
Selvagens Cães de Guerra
Alexander
Uma multinacional britânica pretende derrubar um ditador na África central. Então contrata um bando de mercenários em Londres e os envia para resgatar da prisão o democrático líder da oposição, que está gravemente doente. Mas quando a equipe realiza o resgate perfeito, a multinacional consegue fechar um acordo com o ditador e abandona o bando de mercenários que então precisa sair por conta própria da enrascada. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Slavers
Musulna
A story about slave hunting, colonialism, revenge and love.
Target of an Assassin
Minister Manga
Mister Deathman
Sue
Geoffrey Graves is a secret agent who comes ourt of retirement for a mission in South Africa. Stella Stevens stars as an enemy agent.
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.
The Virgin Goddess
Gampu
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.
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.
A Prova do Leão
Leader of the warriors
Um grupo de homens está em um safári na África, quando se deparam com uma tribo de nativos. Um deles se recusa a dar uma oferenda, o que deixa a tribo ofendida. Os nativos então matam cruelmente os homens brancos, deixando apenas um vivo. Este será objeto de uma competição para eles, que o fazem fugir como se fosse um leão para em seguida ser caçado
Dingaka
Ntuku Makwena
Nativo sul africano, vinga o assassinato de sua filha de acordo com as leis tribais tradicionais. Seu ato de vingança o leva a ser julgado sob as leis do governo, onde a justiça para o povo negro não existe.