Winston Ntshona (Actor)

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Movies starring Winston Ntshona have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 62%.

Gandhi - released in 1982 - is Winston Ntshona's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 647 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Winston Ntshona is Tarzan and the Lost City - released in 1998 - with a score of 34% based on 33 reviews.

Actor Biography

Winston Ntshona (born 6 October 1941) is a South African playwright and actor.

Born in Port Elizabeth, Ntshona worked alongside fellow South African Athol Fugard on several occasions and played a minor role in Richard Attenborough's acclaimed film Gandhi.

Ntshona also played deposed President Julius Limbani, the subject of a rescue attempt in The Wild Geese (1977). Limbani is based on Moise Tshombe.

With Fugard and John Kani, Ntshona wrote the 1973 play The Island, in which he and Kani starred in a number of major international productions over the next thirty years. He and Kani were co-winners of the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for their performance in both The Island and Sizwe Banzi is Dead, which he also co-wrote.

Winston Ntshona has acted in films with Marius Weyers, Ian Roberts, Daniel Craig and John Gielgud.

Winston Ntshona has worked with these film directors: Richard Attenborough, Edward Zwick, Paul Michael Glaser and John G. Avildsen.