Lionel Ngakane

Acting

Lionel Ngakane

16 films

Lionel Ngakane (17 July 1928 – 26 November 2003) was a South African filmmaker and actor, who lived in exile in the United Kingdom from the 1950s until 1994, when he returned to South Africa after the end of apartheid. His 1965 film Jemima and Johnny, inspired by the 1958 "race riots" in Notting Hill, London, won awards at the Venice and Rimini film festivals. In the 1960s, Ngakane was a founding member of the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI) …

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Filmography

16 films
The Squeeze poster

An alcoholic London ex-cop becomes involved in a kidnapping drama and tries to free the daughter of…

The Squeeze

★ 5.5 1977

Child of Hope poster

Thirty-seven men from the disputed territory of South West Africa are on trial for their lives in P…

Child of Hope

★ 0.0 1975

Nothing Barred poster

Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to…

Nothing Barred

★ 7.0 1961