- Data di nascita
- Data di morte4 novembre 2003 · Vosloorus, Sud Africa (cause naturali)
- Ken Gampu è nato il 28 agosto 1929. Luogo di nascita: Sud Africa. È conosciuto come attore e aiuto regista. È celebre per aver partecipato a Ma che siamo tutti matti? (1980), Allan Quatermain e le miniere di re Salomone (1985) e Zulu Dawn (1979). È stata sposato con Violet. Morì il 4 novembre 2003. Luogo di morte: Sud Africa.
- ConiugeViolet(? - November 4, 2003) (morte del marito, 2 bambini)
- Suffered indignities as a black actor in South Africa despite his success in Hollywood. In 1975, he was cast as Lennie in a South African stage production of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," but was allowed to play the role only after the government gave him permission to share a stage with white actors.
- Became a member of the Screen Actors Guild in 1970.
- Married with two sons: Ken Jr. and Gatsha.
- Was involved in many theatre musicals by Bertha Egnos, including "Dingaka" and "Ipi Tombi," the most successful musical ever staged in South Africa. He was also featured in the jazz opera "King Kong."
- His first film was the 1960 South-African-made "Tremor" which dealt with the Coalbrook mining disaster.
- I would walk through Joubert Park in Johannesburg and dream about sitting on one of those benches marked Europeans Only.
- "For the first time the black man was on an equal footing with the white man, and you know - the heavens didn't fall" - on his role in a 1975 production of 'Of Mice and Men'.
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