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- Barack Obama Sr. was born on 18 June 1934 in Nyangoma-Kogela, Kenya. He was married to Jael Otieno, Ruth Beatrice Baker, Ann Dunham and Kezia Grace Aoko. He died on 24 November 1982 in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Cinematographer
Gordon Parks Jr. was born as Gordon Roger Parks in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, the son of photographer and filmmaker Gordon Alexander Parks and Sally Alvis. He is best remembered for the successful if controversial crime film "Super Fly" (1972). He worked as a musician and photographer, early on using the name Gordon Rogers to distinguish himself from his father. He served as a cameraman on his father's first directorial effort, "The Learning Tree" (1969), and did both still and motion picture photography for other movies including "The Godfather" (1971) before directing his own project, "Super Fly" (1972). He made several subsequent films but none were as successful as his first. He was killed in a plane crash in Nairobi, Kenya, 3 April 1979, while making a film entitled "Revenge" that was more than half-finished at the time.- Henrik Scheele was born on 5 February 1952. He was an actor, known for Fortuna (1993), Sirup (1990) and Vestavind (1994). He died on 18 February 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Beryl Markham was born on 26 October 1902 in Ashwell, Rutland, England. She was married to Raoul Schumacher, Mansfield Markham and Jock Purves. She died on 3 August 1986 in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Kamoya Kimeu was born in 1938 in Makueni County, British East Africa [now Kenya]. He was married to Mary Mbiki. He died on 20 July 2022 in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Peter Lukoye was an actor, known for Born Free (1966), Born Free (1974) and Living Free (1972). He died on 4 February 2004 in Jericho Estate, Eastlands, Nairobi, Kenya.
- Jock Leslie-Melville was born on 28 February 1933 in Kensington, London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Last Giraffe (1979), Jack Paar Tonite (1973) and The Pet Set (1971). He was married to Betty Leslie-Melville. He died on 30 April 1984 in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Frank Plummer was born on 2 December 1952 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was married to Jo Kennelly. He died on 4 February 2020 in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Richard Leakey (19 December 1944 - 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan palaeoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. He held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife conservation. He had been Director of the National Museum of Kenya, founded the NGO WildlifeDirect, and was the chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Jasper Maskelyne was born on 29 September 1892 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Lady in Distress (1940), The Dizzy Limit (1930) and Terror on Tiptoe (1936). He died on 15 March 1973 in Nairobi, Kenya.- William Munuhe died on 14 January 2003 in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Additional Crew
Daphne Sheldrick was born on 4 June 1934 in Kenya. She is known for The Flame Trees of Thika (1981), Bloody Ivory (1978) and For the Love of Elephants (2010). She was married to Bill Woodley and David Sheldrick. She died on 12 April 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya.- Wangari Maathai was born on 1 April 1940 in Nyeri, Kenya. She was an actress, known for The Challenge for Africa (2009), The 11th Hour (2007) and Earth Keepers (2009). She was married to Mwangi Mathai. She died on 25 September 2011 in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Bob Collymore was born on 13 January 1958 in Guyana. He was married to Wambui Kamiru. He died on 1 July 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya.
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- Producer
- Director
Alan Root was born on 12 May 1937 in London, England, UK. He was a cinematographer and producer, known for Gorillas in the Mist (1988), Mysterious Castles of Clay (1978) and Here be dragons (1990). He was married to Joan Root, Fran Michelmore and Jenny Hammond. He died on 26 August 2017 in Nairobi, Kenya.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Jane Morrison was born in 1947. She was a director and writer, known for Los dos Mundos de Angelita (1983). She died on 21 January 1987 in Nairobi, Kenya.- Additional Crew
Mary Leakey was born on 6 February 1913 in London, England, UK. She is known for Africa: The Serengeti (1994) and National Geographic Specials (1965). She was married to Louis Leakey. She died on 9 December 1996 in Nairobi, Kenya.- Director
- Producer
- Cinematographer
Michaela Denis was a pioneer of wildlife television. With her glamorous image and immaculate make-up, she roamed Africa with her husband, Armand. She was charged by a hippopotamus and nearly strangled by a python but never lost her fifties poise. She was born Michaela Wandsworth in London to a White Russian mother and an archaelogist who was killed in the First World War when Michaela was three months old. She trained as a dress designer, got engaged to an American admiral, then met the Belgian film-maker Armand Denis. They were married in the Andes but Africa was their passion. Their first British television series, "Filming Wild Animals", was in 1954 with Michaela as presenter and Armand doing the voice-over. This was followed by "On Safari", "Safari to Asia" and "Armand and Michaela Denis". They settled in Nairobi, where Armand died in 1971. Michaela married Sir William O'Brian Lindsay, the former chief justice of Sudan, but he died three months later. Michaela died on the 4th of May, 2003, aged 88.- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Armand Denis was an Anglo-Belgian filmmaker known known for his documentaries for both the silver screen and television, primarily about Africa. The son of a judge, he was born on December 2, 1896 in Brussels. He moved to England after his World War One military service, where he studied chemistry at Oxford. After working for a chemist in England and Belgium, he moved to America in 1926. His invention of an automatic volume control for radio brought him enough income to travel and shoot movies of exotic locales.
He worked as a cameraman in Hollywood in the late silent era before hooking up with Theodore Roosevelt's French-born cousin Andre Roosevelt to travel to Bali in 1928, which they documented on film. Roosevelt wanted to develop the tourist industry in Bali in the 1920s in order to preserve the native culture by turning the island into a national park. As part of his aspirations, he wrote the screenplay for the 1932 movie "Goona-Goona, An Authentic Melodrama" (a.k.a. Kriss (1931)) that he co-produced and co-directed with Denis.
The two had begun filming Bali on their '28 trip and eventually combined their documentary footage with a fictional romantic story about the love between a native prince and a servant girl. The first version of the film, called "Love Powder", was released in 1930. Two years later, a re-edited version that conformed to censorship strictures was released and was a hit, creating a Bali craze in The States. Denis subsequently married Roosevelt's daughter Leila and they had four children.
Denis capitalized on the success of the picture and directed the 1934 African jungle adventure film Wild Cargo (1934), which starred great white hunter Frank Buck. Subsequently, he and Leila traveled to the Belgian Congo in 1934-35 and shot sound footage that could be used in movies set in Africa. Their footage included the first recordings of the dances and music of the Tutsi and Mangbetu tribes. In addition to releasing the music commercially, the created a movie of their trip, called "Wheels Across Africa" (1936).
The couple worked making documentary shorts in the 1930s and '40s, but Denis divorced his wife to marry English dress designer Michaela Holdsworth, whom he met in 1948. Along with Michaela, with whom he lived in Nairobi, Kenya, Denis continued to make documentaries in Africa. Their TV program "Filming Wild Animals" was broadcast on the British Broadcasting Co. in 1954, and thereafter, they regularly contributed African documentaries to the BBC and ITV.
Armand Denis died from Parkinson's disease on April 15, 1971. He was 74 years old.- Ali Mahdi Muhammad was born on 1 January 1939 in Jowhar, Italian Somaliland, Reign of Italy [now Somalia]. He died on 10 March 2021 in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Actor
- Casting Department
James Falkland was born James Brown in Scotland and began acting at the age of eleven. While serving in the R.A.F., he met and married his wife Debonnaire while both were serving as instructors in Berlin. Upon completing service, he returned to the U.K., where he later joined the Shakespeare Company at Stratford. In the 1960's the family moved to Malta, where he joined the Malta Amateur Dramatic Society as actor and director. In 1970 they moved to Kenya, where the couple became regular repertory players the Donovan Maule Theatre in Nairobi, which was at the time the only full-time rep company in Africa. He took over management of the theatre in 1979, but due to the combination of limited audiences and rising costs, he gave up his lease on the theatre in 1983, at which time he, Debbonaire, long-time Maul regular Kenneth Mason (the banker in Out of Africa), and former UK children's show host James Ward, established the appropriately named-Phoenix players, with its intimate basement theater on Parliament Road near the former site of the Donovan Maule Theatre. Falkland maintained a year-round repertory schedule and produced an annual musical, complete with a pocket orchestra, maintaining an impressive level of quality. Working with the American international school, he also produced and directed a series of truly stunning musicals, including Guys and Dolls and Fiddler on the Roof; the latter involving spectacular revolving sets that set a new standard for theatre in East Africa. In the late 1980's, with the goal of bringing theatre to remote locations for the first time, he put together a small company that held performances at various locations around Kenya.- Angelo D'Agostino was born on 26 January 1926 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He died on 20 November 2006 in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Daniel Arap Moi was born on 2 September 1924 in Kenya. He died on 4 February 2020 in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Additional Crew
Peter Colemore was born on 22 November 1919 in London, England, UK. He is known for Tarzan's Peril (1951). He died on 24 January 2004 in Nairobi, Kenya.- David Sheldrick was married to Daphne Sheldrick. He died on 13 June 1977 in Nairobi, Kenya.