Idi Amin
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Idi Amin Dada (30 May 1928 – 16 August 2003) was a military leader and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King's African Rifles, in 1946, and eventually held the rank of Major General and Commander of the Ugandan Army before taking power in the military coup of January 1971, deposing Milton Obote. He later promoted himself to Field Marshal while he was the head of state. Amin's rule was characterized by human rights abuse, political repression,...
Known For
Basketball: A Love Story
Self (archive footage)
World in Action
How to Become a Tyrant
Self (archive footage)
A Life Among Elephants
Self (archive footage)
Christmas Karma
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
General Idi Amin Dada
Himself (as Idi Amin Dada)
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
Self (archive footage)
Un siècle d'écrivains
Filmography
Christmas Karma
2025
as Self (archive footage, uncredited)
A Life Among Elephants
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Thrown into Canada
2022
Året var 1972
2021
as Self (archive footage)
How to Become a Tyrant
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Basketball: A Love Story
2018
as Self (archive footage)
How to Stage a Coup
2017
Dictator: One Crazy Job
2013
as Self (archive footage)
How to Be Foreign Secretary
1998
as Self (archive footage)
Un siècle d'écrivains
1995
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
1977
as Self (archive footage)
General Idi Amin Dada
1974
as Himself (as Idi Amin Dada)
Aikamme uskomuksia - ei ainoastaan leivästä
1973
as Himself, president of Uganda (archive footage)
World in Action
1963