Isaach de Bankolé

Isaach or Isaac de Bankolé (born 12 August 1957; Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire) is an Ivorian actor. De Bankolé was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, to Yoruba parents from Benin. His grandparents are from Nigeria.[6] He moved to Paris in 1975 for his last year of lycée and pursued a master's degree in physics and mathematics. He then attended an aviation school and earned a private pilot licence, before a chance encounter with French director Gérard Vergez led him to enroll in the Cours Simon, a Parisian drama school.

Known For: Acting

Born: Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, 1957-08-12

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1986	Black Mic Mac	Lemi	55
2	1987	Lady Cops	Inspecteur Lacroix	48
3	1988	Chocolat	Protée	67
4	1989	How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired	Vieux	43
5	1989	Vanille fraise	Hippolyte N'Go	53
6	1990	No Fear, No Die	Dah	59
7	1991	Night on Earth	Cab Driver Paris	75
8	1993	Heart of Darkness	Mfumu	57
9	1995	Casa de Lava	Leão	69
10	1995	The Keeper	Jean Baptiste	50
11	1999	Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai	Raymond	73
12	2004	Coffee and Cigarettes	Isaach (segment "No Problem")	69
13	2004	From Other Worlds	Abraham	44
14	2005	Manderlay	Timothy	69
15	2005	The Skeleton Key	Creole Gas Station Owner	66
16	2006	Casino Royale	Steven Obanno	76
17	2007	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Laurent	76
18	2007	The Fifth Patient	Cpt. Mugambe	65
19	2008	Machetero		0
20	2008	The Guitar	Roscoe Wasz	56
21	2009	The Limits of Control	Lone Man	60
22	2010	White Material	Boxer	68
23	2010	I Am Slave	Bah	64
24	2011	Oka!	Bassoun	37
25	2012	Chaos	Vincent	55
26	2013	Mother of George	Ayodele Balogun	54
27	2014	Calvary	Simon	71
28	2014	Run	Assa	54
29	2022	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	River Tribe Elder	71
30	2022	The People We Hate at the Wedding	Henrique	63
31	2024	The Brutalist	Gordon	61
32		Celui qui soigne - Muganga	Denis Mukwege	0
33	1984	Comment draguer tous les mecs		20
34	1984	The Syringe		45
35	1986	Noir et blanc		43
36	1986	Taxi Boy	Touré	30
37	1988	Ada in the Jungle	Bumbo	20
38	1998	A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries	Mamadou	60
39	1999	Otomo	Otomo	53
40	1999	Cherry	Menu Man	45
41	2000	Bàttu	Saar	0
42	2001	3 A.M.	Angus	55
43	2002	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life	Sgt. Barthelmy	58
44	2003	The Killing Zone	Malcolm	30
45	2004	Homework	Jean	0
46	2005	Before It Had a Name	Waiter	34
47	2005	Stay	Professor	66
48	2006	Miami Vice	Neptune	60
49	2007	Battle in Seattle	Abasi	63
50	2008	24: Redemption	President Ule Matobo	0
51	2010	Behind Jim Jarmusch	Self	0
52	2014	Mirage	Francis	58
53	2014	Where the Road Runs Out	George	57
54	2015	The Last Witch Hunter	Max Schlesinger	60
55	2016	Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer		55
56	2017	Femme Noire		0
57	2017	Double Play	Ernesto	40
58	2017	Kiss Me!	Bernard	55
59	2018	Black Panther	River Tribe Elder	74
60	2018	Black Is Beltza	Wilson Clever (voice)	58
61	2019	A Violent Man	Pete	58
62	2019	Shaft	Pierro 'Gordito' Carrera	65
63	2021	French Exit	Julius	57
64	2024	Snakeeater	Frank	0
65		The Cry of the Guards	Alboury	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	62
2	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	62
3	1990	Les Nuls, l'émission	Self - Guest	84
4	1999	The Sopranos	Father Obosi	87
5	2001	24		78
6	2001	24	Prime Minister Ule Matobo	78
7	2002	Az ifjú Indiana Jones Kalandjai	Barthelemy Boganda	70
8	2006	The Unit	General Togar	73
9	2009	The Good Wife	Larry Oliver	76
10	2009	White Collar	Luc Renaud	83
11	2017	S.W.A.T.	Aden Syed	81
12	2019	Godfather of Harlem	Monsieur 98	81
13	2024	Parish	Tongai Sr.	65