# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lionel-ngakane
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:32:38.217Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lionel-ngakane"
name: "Lionel Ngakane"
slug: "lionel-ngakane"
description: "Lionel Ngakane 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) and Fespaco, the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO)."
tagline: "South African filmmaker"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/cHfpVC5vULokJ0x2g7u4MaYdfMZ.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1920-07-17"
deathDate: "2003-11-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.60702
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0618470/"
    handle:    "nm0618470"
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Ngakane"
    title: "Lionel Ngakane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ليونيل نجاكان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Ngakane"
    title: "Lionel Ngakane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Ngakane"
    title: "Lionel Ngakane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Ngakane"
    title: "Lionel Ngakane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Ngakane"
    title: "Lionel Ngakane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Ngakane"
    title: "Lionel Ngakane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6555737"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/937159"
    title: "Lionel Ngakane"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump