N!xau

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Dec 16, 1944 (80 years old)

N!xau

Known For

In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
1h 54m
Movie 1994

In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid

A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid.

Crazy Hong Kong
1h 31m
Movie 1993

Crazy Hong Kong

In the early 1990s, Nǃxau was cast in three low-budget unofficial sequels that continued the fish-out-of-water aspects of the first two films.

The Gods Must Be Crazy: Crazy Safari
1h 36m
Movie 1991

The Gods Must Be Crazy: Crazy Safari

Two guys, one of them a magician, are transporting an ancient chinese vampire who can only be controlled by a series of yellow tapes, and is the ancestor of the other guy. On the way, while flying over Africa, their plane stalls. And of all places, where do they land? That's right, in the village of the tribe of "The Gods Must Be Crazy".

The Gods Must Be Crazy II
1h 38m
Movie 1989

The Gods Must Be Crazy II

Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a couple of soldiers trying to capture each other and a pilot and passenger of a small plane, who are each having a few problems of their own.

Biography

Nǃxau ǂToma(short: Nǃxau, alternative spelling Gcao Tekene Çoma; 16 December 1944 – 1 July 2003) was a Namibian bush farmer and actor who was made famous by his roles in the 1980 movie The Gods Must Be Crazy and its sequels, in which he played the Kalahari Bushman Xixo. The Namibian called him "Namibia's most famous actor". On 5 July 2003, he died from multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis while he was out on an excursion for hunting guinea fowl. According to official estimates he was about 58 or 59 years old at the time. He was buried on 12 July in a semi-traditional ceremony at Tsumkwe, next to the grave of his second wife. He had six surviving children.

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