Ian Roberts
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Biography: Ian Roberts is a South African actor, playwright and singer best known to television viewers for his roles in the drama series Arende and Snitch, and as the character Boet in a series of long-running advertisements for Castrol motor oil. Roberts was born in Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape and raised on a citrus farm near the town. He attended St. Andrew's Preparatory School and St. Andrew's College in Grahamstown. After completing high school he performed his compulsory national service in the South African Army, which he completed in 1971. After a variety of different jobs and a course in photography at the Port Elizabeth Technical College from 1973 to 1975, Roberts enrolled at Rhodes University in 1976 for a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Speech, Drama and Social Anthropology. Ian Roberts has built up an extensive acting career in theatre, television and film. Roberts was married to South African actress Michele Botes, but the couple divorced in 1999. They have two children.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fort Beaufort, South Africa
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Birthday: November 30, 1951
Age: 73 years old
Gender: Male
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Bakgat!
Overview: Katrien (Cherié van der Merwe) is dumped by her boyfriend, high school rugby star Werner (Altus Theart), so he can focus his energy on the sport. To get even, she makes a bet with her friends that she can make a star out of the school's dorkiest boy, 'Wimpie' Koekemoer (Ivan Botha), by pretending to be his girlfriend. The awkward Koekemoer rises to the challenge but Katrien finds herself falling unexpectedly in love with him, until he realizes she is merely using him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-11
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Overview: A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-15
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Red Dust
Overview: Sarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood dwelling place to intercede for Alex Mpondo, a Black South African politician who was tortured during apartheid.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-11
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Tarzan and the Lost City
Overview: Tarzan returns to his homeland of Africa to save his home from destruction.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-24
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Bakgat 2
Overview: The Unitas u/21 rugby team hero, Wimpie Koekemoer, is offered a contract to play rugby in England. Katrien rehearses a play with autistic children, while doing everything in her power to keep Wimpie in the country. Fanie is struggling to get used to Christie's post-high school chubby body and Japie is experiencing a very embarrassing problem in his sexual pursuit of Liezl... Muscle man, Werner "Killer" Botha joins the Unitas rugby team and threatens Wimpie's position in the team. (Written by Henk Pretorius)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-10
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You Must Be Joking! Too
Overview: This time, Leon Schuster plays a filmmaker who is making a candid camera movie, only to discover that another filmmaker has stolen his ideas and is making the identical picture. How so? It seems that the thieving rival is blackmailing Schuster´s girlfriend. With the help of his friends and an ingenious talking cap that he designed himself, the good director manages to outwit the baddie, get the girl and make the country laugh.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Paljas
Overview: Follows the deterioration of an Afrikaner family isolated and shunned in the small community of Toorwater. Nothing seems to happen. Then a circus train loses its way and comes to rest in Toorwater, and a mysterious clown brings fresh magic to the stagnating family, but he also poses a threat to the rest of the community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 1998-01-23
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The Crossing
Overview: A South African girl guides anti-apartheid guerrilla fighters across the border from Botswana to South Africa.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-22
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A Reasonable Man
Overview: With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-13
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Wild Maneuvres
Overview: Military-Comedy. Sequel to "Boetie gaan border toe". Boetie (Translated into English as 'Buddy' or "Brother") wants to win his girlfriend Liza back, who just dumped him. With the help of some money, he engineers that she is assigned as reporter to the planned manoeuvres, where he would love to impress her. However, things turn out different as Buddy and his comrades are assigned to do the manual labour during the manoeuvres, and the arrogant Captain humiliating them turns out to be Liza's new boyfriend. But when a bunch of criminal madmen disturb the manoeuvre and take a hostage, it is up to Buddy and his comrades to rescue the hostage, their honour - and the girl's love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: af
Release Date: 1985-06-25
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Kalahari Harry
Overview: Kalahari Harry is a noble story of the plight of the Kalahari bushman in their struggle for land and survival. A rich Johannesburg business man Mr. Kowalski is sent to the Northern Cape (home of the indigenous bushman), to asses the potential of building a state-of-the-art casino. Kalahari Harry, a member of the local Bushman tribe is decidedly opposed to this corporate move and sets into motion a series of ingenious plans to prevent this from happening.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-06
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Heroes
Overview: South African TV Movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-03
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The Horse Smuggler
Overview: South African TV Movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: af
Release Date: 1982-05-03
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Anna Meintjies
Overview: South African TV Movie
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Original Language: af
Release Date: 1983-03-21
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Askari
Overview: Set on a game reserve in Africa. Askari is an angry old elephant, the only survivor of the "A' family group which has been anhilitated in a government cull and he has turned rogue. Involved in the culling are Patrick Khumalo, a corrupt government official and Ribshaw, an unscrupulous white poacher accompanied by Ndhlovu, an old African tracker who is being blackmailed by Ribshaw. Anxious to save the elephants are game warden Joss Mckinley and his conservationist wife Paula who is studying and monitoring various family groups of elephants. When Paula's sixteen year old niece Emma Crawshay is orphaned she is sent to live with her aunt and uncle at Morena Game Park. She feels alienated but is gradually drawn into her aunt's passion for her work and her favourite elephant family the 'O' group, in particular a calf named Ollie.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-01
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Cape Rebel
Overview: Movie version cut from the TV series (Arende) Epic drama of honor, passion and freedom set during the Anglo-Boer War and follows the bound fates of rebellious Boer farmer Sloet Steenkamp and Captain of the British Army James Kerwin. A period drama of a time when Britain colonised by might in Southern Africa. Sloet was a Cape Colonist who refused to surrender to the new rule, and was one of the Cape rebels. After being captured he and many others were taken captive and sent to British concentration camps in Saint Helena where Sloet was doomed to stay forever
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-27
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Bakgat 3
Overview: Rugby hero, Wimpie Koekemoer, and his wild friends return to our screens in the third instalment of the successful Bakgat! movies. Newly engaged couple, Wimpie and Katrien, move to London where Wimpie has received a contract to play rugby. However, he has to face stark reality when he arrives and realises that his dreams of fame and fortune were only an illusion. His apartment is everything but the palace he had imagined - and his teammates make his life unbearable from the get go.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-05
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The Race-Ist
Overview: As a kid in the eighties in South Africa, Lukas dreams of becoming a quarter mile racing champ. His mom tells him to stay away from those people because they are Racists. Lukas is too young to know what a racist is and hears it as 'Race-ist'. The Film follows his journey as a young man in modern South Africa where the limitation of color no longer applies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-10
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Eternity
Overview: Handsome young vampire Billy (Andre Frauenstein) seems to have finally found his true love in Jenny Shapiro (Rikki Brest), a beautiful young woman he meets at a nightclub. Despite efforts by those around them to keep the two apart, including Billy's past love Lisa (Christina Storm), they appear to be destined for one another. Their happiness is suddenly cut short when a scientist researching a treatment for HIV/AIDS accidentally discovers a serum that will allow vampires to walk in the daylight with humans. This leads to an all-out war between vampires; those who are against the serum and those who would use it to leave the shadows of night, including vicious upstart vampire Borlak (David James) who will stop at nothing to obtain it. Billy and police detective Joe Kau must now work together to protect Jenny and her family, and to keep this discovery from those who would use it against all of humanity
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-23
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Babalas
Overview: Mia Moolman works for a Sandton-based event coordination company that has been commissioned by the department of Trade and Industry to create an event celebrating the most successful ad campaigns in South African history. The gala event will happen at Emperors Palace, and the CEO of the company, Theodore, has asked his employees to pitch ideas for the show and whoever comes up with the best idea will be awarded a promotion and a special bonus. Mia comes up with the idea to make the three guys from the old Castrol commercials, Boet, Swaer and Mogae, part of the show. Her boss eventually agrees to this, but Mia must go and find them in the Kalahari and bring them to Emperors Palace in time for the big gala event. Will she get them to the big show in time?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-02
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The Fourth Reich
Overview: Robey Leibbrandt was a South African boxer who became fascinated with Nazi ideology during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. In1939 he led an operation to overthrow the pro-Allied government of General Jan Smuts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-25
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Musiek Vir Die Agtergrond
Overview: This is a story of a talented and ambitious musician who faces a major crossroads in his life. Paul’s career has progressed to the point where he plays his own music in pubs, but he has struggled to go beyond that. It is a hand-to-mouth existence and Paul and his girlfriend, Sera, struggle to keep the bank balance in check. However, one day an important music producer sees Paul play and, realizing he has talent, offers him a big contract. Paul throws caution to the wind and signs the deal, certain that this is his big break. Unfortunately, the fine print in the contract stipulates that Paul make the kind of commercial music he vowed he never would, and also forces him to act under a stage name. Now, Paul must decide if he is willing to sell his soul for financial stability. And whatever he decides, he realizes that it will have a lasting effect on his career and on his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2013-10-04
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The Windmill
Overview: The story is about 17-year-old Hendri who is forced to end up on the doorstep of his senile, withdrawn grandfather in a retirement home. Hendri soon realizes that there are so many more secrets hidden here than he could ever guess and that the biggest secret of all may just cost him the love of his life.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2014-04-25
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Stuur Groete Aan Mannetjies Roux
Overview: A family drama on the dangers of sweeping years of truth under the carpet and hoping for the best. A teenage girl, Engela, visits the Karoo farm of her uncle Frans and aunt Koba during the school holidays. A journey of discovery starts: she has to find out who she really is and where she comes from. Three visitors in one week change her life forever and her uncle’s obsession with the rugby try by Mannetjies Roux is at last explained.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2013-12-13
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Tsotsi
Overview: The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents, finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just stolen. He decides that it his responsibility to take care of the baby and in the process learns that maybe the gangster life isn’t the best way.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: tn
Release Date: 2005-12-23
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I Dreamed of Africa
Overview: Inspired by the true story of indomitable Kuki Gallmann, the film tells of a beautiful and inquisitive woman who had the courage to escape from her comfortable yet monotonous life in Italy to start anew in the African wilderness with her son, Emanuele, and her new husband, Paolo. Gallmann faces great danger there but eventually becomes a celebrated conservationist.
Genres: Romance Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-05
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Inside
Overview: A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the questioning is similarly held as prisoner and questioned about his past offenses.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-25
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Sweepers
Overview: Dolph Lundgren is Christian Erickson, a leading demolition expert trained to disarm mine fields in a humanitarian minesweeping operation in Angola. His son is killed and he discovers that mines are being planted during the war to kill people in the area.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-02
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Tremors 5: Bloodlines
Overview: When Gummer is hired to capture a deadly creature terrorizing South Africa, he and his new sidekick, Travis Welker, engage in another battle of survival against the fiercely aggressive Graboids.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-06
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Van der Merwe
Overview: Van der Merwe, a bumbling farmer from a traditional Afrikaans family, struggles to keep his family together when his daughter returns from England with her British fiancé and family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-28
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Dancing in the Forest
Overview: Sy Winter, a young idealistic American, becomes stranded high in the mountain woods. Attracted by the beautiful Tanya, he is trapped into working for her violent husband and his decrepit wheelchair-bound father. As the ominous surroundings deepen his tortured desires for Tanya, his fantasies become reality and Sy is plunged into a nightmare of murder and revenge from which he cannot escape until he faces his own tortured nightmares.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Mia and the White Lion
Overview: A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-08-02
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In a Time of Violence: The Line
Overview: This controversial political thriller, which provoked mass demonstrations and nine deaths in South Africa when it was first shown, gives dramatic form to the African National Congress's basic program of reconcilliation within a non-racialist, democratic society. A train massacre by an Inkatha militant causes the sole witness to the crime to flee the Soweto townships to take refuge in Johannesburg; but the violence follows him when his ANC comrades try to buy guns for a retaliatory raid against Inkatha supporters.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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Cyborg Cop III
Overview: A cop tries to stop a scientist's experiments to turn students into cyborg-mercenaries.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-17
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The Power of One
Overview: PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel teaches him how to box with the motto “fight with your fists and lead with your heart”. As he grows to manhood, PK uses these words to take on the system and the injustices he sees around him - and finds that one person really can make a difference.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-27
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Number 10
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-27
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Mandela and de Klerk
Overview: Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-02-16
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Jane and the Lost City
Overview: Jane and the Colonel must journey to Africa to the lost city to retrieve the diamonds before the Nazis do. Comedy based on the popular wartime comic strip.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-03
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Pusha Pressa Phanda
Overview: “Pusha Pressa Phanda” is a dissection of freedom. Taking place in one day, the film follows street youth Mandisa as she struggles to obtain medication and sanitary pads for her sister who is under her care. Faced with numerous obstacles along the way, Mandisa represents the struggle inherently facing women in their relentless pursuit for survival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-23
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