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  1. Sep 9, 1994 · A British diplomat in West Africa faces political and personal troubles in this 1994 satire based on a novel by William Boyd. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, and more for this movie.

    • (2.7K)
    • Comedy
    • Bruce Beresford
    • 1994-09-09
  2. A Good Man in Africa is a 1994 comedy-drama film, based on William Boyd's 1981 novel A Good Man in Africa and directed by Bruce Beresford. The film starred Colin Friels, Sean Connery, John Lithgow, Joanne Whalley, Diana Rigg and Louis Gossett Jr.

  3. The movie's most interesting character, who inspires the title, is an unbending Scotish doctor named Murray, played by Sean Connery with a certain droll anger that seems just right. The movie takes place in a fictional African nation where Morgan Leafy ( Colin Friels) is first secretary at the British High Commission.

  4. Morgan Leafy (Colin Friels) is a British diplomat living in Kinjanja, an African nation recently freed from British rule. Arthur Fanshawe (John Lithgow), a new diplomat eager to leave Africa ...

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    • Bruce Beresford
    • R
    • Colin Friels
  5. A Good Man in Africa (1994) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

  6. In this comedy of manners set in a fictional West African country a British diplomat must convince an official to alter his vote on a project to make up for being caught with the wife of a corrupt politician.

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  8. A comedy film about a British diplomat who faces political and personal troubles in West Africa. He clashes with a corrupt politician, a principled doctor, and his own boss and family.