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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. 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	1984	Comment draguer tous les mecs		20
2	1984	The Syringe		45
3	1986	Noir et blanc		43
4	1986	Black Mic Mac	Lemi	56
5	1986	Taxi Boy	Touré	30
6	1987	Lady Cops	Inspecteur Lacroix	48
7	1988	Chocolat	Protée	69
8	1988	Ada in the Jungle	Bumbo	20
9	1989	How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired	Vieux	43
10	1989	Vanille fraise	Hippolyte N'Go	52
11	1990	No Fear, No Die	Dah	60
12	1991	Night on Earth	Cab Driver Paris	75
13	1993	Heart of Darkness	Mfumu	57
14	1995	Casa de Lava	Leão	69
15	1995	The Keeper	Jean Baptiste	50
16	1998	A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries	Mamadou	60
17	1999	Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai	Raymond	73
18	1999	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life	Sgt. Barthelmy	59
19	1999	Otomo	Otomo	53
20	1999	Cherry	Menu Man	45
21	2000	Bàttu	Saar	10
22	2001	3 A.M.	Angus	55
23	2003	The Killing Zone	Malcolm	30
24	2004	Coffee and Cigarettes	Isaach (segment "No Problem")	69
25	2004	Homework	Jean	0
26	2004	From Other Worlds	Abraham	38
27	2005	Manderlay	Timothy	69
28	2005	The Skeleton Key	Creole Gas Station Owner	66
29	2005	Before It Had a Name	Waiter	33
30	2005	Stay	Professor	66
31	2006	Miami Vice	Neptune	60
32	2006	Casino Royale	Steven Obanno	76
33	2007	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Laurent	76
34	2007	Battle in Seattle	Abasi	63
35	2007	The Fifth Patient	Cpt. Mugambe	61
36	2008	Machetero		0
37	2008	The Guitar	Roscoe Wasz	55
38	2009	The Limits of Control	Lone Man	60
39	2010	White Material	Boxer	68
40	2010	Behind Jim Jarmusch	Self	0
41	2010	I Am Slave	Bah	63
42	2011	Oka!	Bassoun	37
43	2012	Chaos	Vincent	55
44	2013	Mother of George	Ayodele Balogun	54
45	2014	Calvary	Simon	71
46	2014	Mirage	Francis	64
47	2014	Where the Road Runs Out	George	57
48	2014	Run	Assa	54
49	2015	The Last Witch Hunter	Max Schlesinger	60
50	2016	Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer		55
51	2017	Femme Noire		0
52	2017	Double Play	Ernesto	38
53	2017	Kiss Me!	Bernard	55
54	2018	Black Panther	River Tribe Elder	74
55	2018	Black Is Beltza	Wilson Clever (voice)	59
56	2019	A Violent Man	Pete	46
57	2019	Shaft	Pierro 'Gordito' Carrera	65
58	2021	French Exit	Julius	56
59	2022	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	River Tribe Elder	71
60	2022	The People We Hate at the Wedding	Henrique	63
61	2024	Snakeeater	Frank	0
62	2024	The Brutalist	Gordon	70
63	2025	Muganga	Denis Mukwege	0
64		The Fence	Alboury	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
2	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
3	1990	Les Nuls, l'émission	Self - Guest	83
4	1999	The Sopranos	Father Obosi	87
5	2001	24		78
6	2006	The Unit	General Togar	73
7	2009	The Good Wife	Larry Oliver	76
8	2009	White Collar	Luc Renaud	82
9	2017	S.W.A.T.	Aden Syed	81
10	2019	Godfather of Harlem	Monsieur 98	81
11	2024	Parish	Tongai Sr.	66