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Ken Gampu

Ken Gampu

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.

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Movies Starring Ken Gampu (43)

Askari (2001)

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 ...

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A Reasonable Man (1999)

With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby. ...

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Black Velvet Band (1997)

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 Nic ...

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Fools (1997)

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 Sout ...

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Aristotle's Plot (1997)

Tourneur, a self-proclaimed cinéaste, feuds with Cinema and his gang, who are obsessed with foreign action movies. ...

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Cyborg Cop II (1994)

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". ...

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Lethal Ninja (1992)

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. ...

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Oh Schucks...! Here Comes UNTAG (1990)

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 ...

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American Ninja 4: The Annihilation (1990)

The two American Ninjas, Joe Armstrong and Sean Davidson, team up to do battle against a terrorist and his band of Ninjas. ...

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Enemy Unseen (1989)

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 invest ...

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Quiet Thunder (1988)

A bush pilot and a senator's wife try to survive in the jungles of Africa after witnessing an assassination. ...

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Act of Piracy (1988)

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 rec ...

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Bush Shrink (1988)

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. ...

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Operation Hit Squad (1987)

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. ...

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Scavengers (1987)

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 Afri ...

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John Ross: An African Adventure (1987)

Zulu tribesmen escort a shipwrecked 19th-century English sailor on a 600-mile round trip for supplies. ...

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City of Blood (1987)

A medical examiner investigating a series of prostitute murders discovers that the culprit is an ancient tribal witch doctor come back to life. ...

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Jake Speed (1986)

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 ...

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King Solomon's Mines (1985)

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 sini ...

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Van der Merwe PI (1985)

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, ...

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Morenga (1985)

Set in 1904, this is an uneven tale of war and intrigue between native South Africans, German colonialists, and British colonialists, a war no one really wins. ...

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Claws (1982)

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. ...

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Bullet on the Run (1982)

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 ...

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The Chain Gang Killings (1982)

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. ...

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Tuxedo Warrior (1982)

A jaded soldier-of-fortune who runs a bar in Zimbabwe aids a bank-robbing couple in their attempt to evade the authorities. ...

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Kill and Kill Again (1981)

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. ...

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The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)

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. ...

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Flashpoint Africa (1980)

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. ...

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Game for Vultures (1979)

The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man. ...

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King Solomon's Treasure (1979)

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. ...

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Zulu Dawn (1979)

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership. ...

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The Wild Geese (1978)

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 ...

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Slavers (1978)

A story about slave hunting, colonialism, revenge and love. ...

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Target of an Assassin (1977)

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. ...

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Mister Deathman (1977)

Geoffrey Graves is a secret agent who comes ourt of retirement for a mission in South Africa. Stella Stevens stars as an enemy agent. ...

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Black Trash (1976)

A white cop and a black reporter join forces to investigate apparent vigilante killings in the South African underworld. ...

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Forever Young, Forever Free (1975)

A poignant tale of friendship and resilience between two South African children, Tsepo and Jannie, set against the contrasting backdrops of rural Africa and 1970s New York City. Their bond faces trials as they navigate the challenges of injury and the ques ...

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The Virgin Goddess (1974)

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. ...

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Joe Bullet (1973)

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 ...

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Rogue Lion (1972)

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. ...

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All the Way to Paris (1966)

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. ...

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The Naked Prey (1965)

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 me ...

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Dingaka (1964)

An African tribesman seeks revenge against the people who murdered his daughter. ...

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