Zakes Makgona Mokae (August 5, 1934 – September 11, 2009) was a South African stage and screen actor. For his role in playwright Athol Fugard's "Master Harold"...and the Boys, Mokae won the 1982 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. His major films include Cry Freedom (1987), A Dry White Season (1989), The Island (1980), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), Outbreak (1995), and Waterworld (1995). He also had memorable guest appearances on many television series such as The X-Files, The West Wing, and Monk.

Filmography

• Monk — Tonday
• The West Wing — President Nimbala
• 1998Krippendorf's Tribe — Sulukim
• Oz — Kipekemie Jara
• Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child — Mr. Bakoosa (voice)
• 1995Outbreak — Dr. Benjamin Iwabi
• 1995Vampire in Brooklyn — Dr. Zeko
• 1995Waterworld — Priam
• 1994Rise & Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story — Harding
• 1993Percy & Thunder — Pee Wee
• 1993Slaughter of the Innocents — Library Janitor
• The X-Files — Diabria
• 1992Dust Devil — Ben Mukurob
• 1991A Rage in Harlem — Big Kathy
• 1991Body Parts — Detective Sawchuck
• 1991The Doctor — Dr. Charles Reed (uncredited)
• Dream On — U.N. Dignitary
• Law & Order — Edgar Barkley
• 1990Parker Kane — Kid Lightning
• 1989A Dry White Season — Stanley Makhaya
• 1989Dad — Dr. Chad
• 1989Gross Anatomy — Dr. Banumbra
• 1988The Serpent and the Rainbow — Dargent Peytraud
• A Different World — Marcus Mpepo
• 1987Cry Freedom — Father Kani
• 1985'Master Harold'... and the Boys — Sam
• 1983A Caribbean Mystery — Cap. Daventry
• Knight Rider — Tsombe Kuna
• 1981Roar — Committee
• 1980The Island — Wescott
• Roots: The Next Generations — African Minister
• 1978One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story — Pee Wee Spencer
• 1976The River Niger
• Starsky & Hutch — Lord Harry
• 1970Fragment of Fear — (uncredited)
• 1970The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer — Mugger (uncredited)
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre — John Smith
• Plays of Today — Nguru
• 1968Separation — Uncredited
• ITV Playhouse — Gavin Lesotho
• 1967The Comedians — Michel
• 1966Jemima + Johnny — Blind Man
• 1965Darling — Black Man at French Party (uncredited)
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Colonel Okpara
• Story Parade — Nathaniel
• Theatre 625 — Shale
• 1962Dilemma — Steven Sitole
• 1957Dark Africa — Sergeant (as Zachariah Nokae)

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 1994In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee