Arnold Vosloo
Also Known As: Арнольд Вослу, 아놀드 보슬루, آرنولد وسلو
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arnold Vosloo (born June 16, 1962) is a South African actor, best-known for playing the role of the villain Imhotep in the 1999 film The Mummy, and its 2001 sequel, The Mummy Returns, also known for playing the role of the superhero Darkman in the sequel Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1994) and its 1996 sequel, Darkman III: Die Darkman Die. and more recently, a South African Mercenary named Colonel Coetzee (loosely based on Eeben Barlow) in the film Blood Diamond, a Middle Eastern terrorist named Habib Marwan in the television series 24, and Zartan in the film G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Birthday: June 16, 1962
Adult: No
Gender: Male
TMDb-Id: 16743
IMDb-Id: nm0903677
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Known For
The Mummy
Overview: Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It has been over three thousand years since former High Priest Imhotep suffered a fate worse than death as a punishment for a forbidden love—along with a curse that guarantees eternal doom upon the world if he is ever awoken.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-16
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Blood Diamond
Overview: An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-08
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The Mummy Returns
Overview: Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn’t above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis’s otherworldly army.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-04
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Hard Target
Overview: When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-27
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Buried Alive
Overview: A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by some unusual types. Spurred on by a series of horrific hallucinations, she begins to investigate the mysterious disappearances of several students.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-01
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Boetie Goes to the Border
Overview: Boetie is the type of guy who will do anything to get out of military service. Until his father makes him an offer he can't refuse. Its a story of a rich kid who learns the value of being a man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: af
Release Date: 1984-06-06
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Steel Dawn
Overview: In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of settlers who are being menaced by a murderous gang that is after the water they control.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-06
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Odysseus & the Isle of Mists
Overview: King Odysseus has been away from Ithaca for twenty years.The first ten he spent fighting the Trojan War the last ten he spent fighting to get home. Among his adventures is the tale Homer felt was too horrible to tell, the missing book of the Odyssey known as The Isle of the Mists. Here the Warrior King and his men face the Goddess of the Underworld and her winged horrific creatures.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-15
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Act of Piracy
Overview: A large motor yacht becomes the focal point in this action tale when a group of mercenaries decide to capture the vessel. The original owner, who was delivering it to Sydney, Australia, is believed dead but is in fact very much alive, and determined to recover the yacht...
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-07
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Zeus & Roxanne
Overview: Mary Beth is a marine biologist that gets annoyed when a dog called Zeus stows aboard her research boat. Nevertheless she is intrigued when the intrusive canine makes best-friends with her captive dolphin, Roxanne. She falls in love with Zeus's owner, Terry, a musician who rides a bike.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-24
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Overview: From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-03
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Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam
Overview: Chosen the world’s protector against the Seven Deadly Enemies of Man – pride, envy, greed, hatred, selfishness, laziness and injustice – young Billy Batson accepts his destiny as Captain Marvel. Battling alongside Superman against nefarious Black Adam, Billy soon discovers the challenge super heroes ultimately face: is it revenge or justice?
Genres: Animation Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-16
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Fire and Ice: The Dragon Chronicles
Overview: Princess Luisa and knight Gabriel must face a dragon to save their kingdom.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-18
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Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
Overview: As the home planet of the Green Lantern Corps faces a battle with an ancient enemy, Hal Jordan prepares new recruit Arisia for the coming conflict by relating stories of the first Green Lantern and several of Hal's comrades.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-09
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Darkman III: Die Darkman Die
Overview: Darkman, needing money to continue his experiments on synthetic skin, steals a crate of cash from drug lord Peter Rooker...
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-14
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Darkman II: The Return of Durant
Overview: Darkman and Durant return and they hate each other as much as ever. This time, Durant has plans to take over the city's drug trade using high-tech weaponry. Darkman must step in and try to stop Durant once and for all.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Thriller Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-11
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Skeleton Coast
Overview: A retired Army colonel attempts to rescue his imprisoned son in this action packed thriller. To save his CIA operative son from terrorists, Col. Smith (Ernest Borgnine) and a group of mercenaries head to war-torn Angola's Skeleton Coast, where they must infiltrate an armed compound run by a sadistic East German officer before Smith's son is tortured to death. Robert Vaughn, Oliver Reed and Herbert Lom costar.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-14
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Overview: Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-27
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The Red Phone: Checkmate
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-04-01
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All Star Superman
Overview: Lex Luthor enacts his plan to rid the world of Superman, once and for all. Succeeding with solar radiation poisoning, the Man of Steel is slowly dying. With what little times remains, the Last Son of Krypton must confront the revealing of his secret identity to Lois Lane and face Luthor in a final battle.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Progeny
Overview: An unsuspecting woman is impregnated by aliens who are experimenting on the human population.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-30
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Rough Draft
Overview: A struggling freelance writer, while investigating the transvestite night life, stumbles across a serial killer in action. The two then strike up a bizarre partnership to document the killer's motives and handiwork as a possessed detective struggling with his own personal demons tries to solve the crimes.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-06
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Silverton Siege
Overview: After a failed sabotage mission, a trio of anti-apartheid freedom fighters ends up in a tense bank hostage situation. Based on a true story.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-27
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Living To Die
Overview: A burned-out private detective in Las Vegas gets involved in blackmail and murder.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-08
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Endangered Species
Overview: When police are puzzled by several horrific murders, they assume they have a serial killer on their hands. But soon they realise that the unimaginable has happened. A killing machine from another world has arrived on Earth determined to brutally execute human beings. Finding themselves out of their depth they are forced to rely on a mysterious alien hunter that has volunteered his help.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-14
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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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Circles in a Forest
Overview: Saul Barnard grew up in a family of woodcutters. The woodcutters are scared of the elephants in the forest, but there's one elephant that never seems to threaten Saul. Tired of being exploited by wood buyers, Saul takes a stand and his father chases him away. He goes to work on the wood buyer MacDonald's wood yard, where he gets to know MacDonald's daughter, Kate, and falls in love with her. After a few years he leaves MacDonald and joins the first prospectors in the forest, searching for gold. Millwood becomes a small town with hotels and bars and houses. Kate appears again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-01
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Global Effect
Overview: Terrorists steal the only cure to a deadly virus that has been unleashed in Africa.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-12
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Reason to Die
Overview: A cop sets up his girlfriend as a target in order to trap a serial killer.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Red Phone: Manhunt
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Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-11-10
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Saturday Night at the Palace
Overview: South African drama set at a roadhouse in Apartheid.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-12
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Forgiveness
Overview: A disgraced ex-cop's arrival in a small town triggers a cathartic journey of forgiveness and revenge for himself and the family of the activist he killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-25
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Warrior Angels
Overview: Elizabeth of Cooke (Joanna Pacula), a beautiful and valiant warrior returns from the Crusades to discover that her son Peter (Sander Kolosov) has been taken by Grekkor (Rutger Hauer), an ex-Lord wreaking havoc throughout the land. She sets out to locate and save Peter.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-11
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1492: Conquest of Paradise
Overview: 1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-09
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Gor
Overview: American professor Tarl Cabot is transported via a magical ring to planet Gor, where he must help an oppressed country overthrow its evil king and his barbarian henchmen.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-08
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Odd Thomas
Overview: In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-29
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The Revenger
Overview: When saxophonist Mike Teller's brother Mackie is killed before being able to deliver $500,000 to mob boss Jack Fisher, Mike is arrested as an accomplice and thrown into prison for five years. Upon his release, he finds Fisher has kidnapped his wife, Lisa, believing Mike has the stolen drug money. With the help of Mackie's old Vietnam war buddy, Harry Crawford, Mike and Harry rescue Lisa, but now have to escape the clutches of the mob in Harry's remote cabin. Will Jack Fisher retrieve his money or will Mike get his revenge?
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Finishing Touch
Overview: Sam Stone is a cop with personal as well as professional problems. Stone investigates a series of killings in the night club scene. His ex-wife, also a cop, goes undercover to find the killer and Stone is faced with a double problem: keeping her alive and catching the killer before another woman is killed.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-16
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Shark Killer
Overview: The services of shark killer have been engaged by his brother Jake, the head of a West Coast crime ring. The gig: kill the black-finned shark that swallowed a valuable diamond during a gang transaction.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-23
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London Calling
Overview: After fleeing the UK from a job gone wrong, a down on his luck hitman is forced to babysit the son of his new crime boss and show him how to become a man.
Genres: Action Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-06-12
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Condor's Nest
Overview: American war veteran Will Spalding has tracked the sadistic Nazi Colonel who executed his bomber crew during WWII to a remote location in South America. But he is in for more than he bargained for when he uncovers a secret Nazi headquarters known as the Condor's Nest.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-27
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Living & Dying
Overview: Four desperate bank robbers are forced to abandon their lucrative heist plans and become the reluctant heroes when two of their hostages turn out to be psychotic killers who won't stop until everyone in the bank has been ruthlessly slaughtered. As the police surround the building and the killers begin methodically executing the hostages.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-30
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Agent Cody Banks
Overview: Recruited by the U.S. government to be a special agent, nerdy teenager Cody Banks must get closer to cute classmate Natalie in order to learn about an evil plan hatched by her father. But despite the agent persona, Cody struggles with teen angst.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-14
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Lasko - Death Train
Overview: A peace-seeking monk must save a train full of pilgrims from terrorists intending to unleash a deadly virus.
Genres: Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-03-16
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Red Shoe Diaries 2: Double Dare
Overview: A cab ride with a dangerously seductive stranger ignites a steamy, purely sexual affair for a woman torn between her hunger for lust and her passion for love. An adventurous married woman becomes enticed by an anonymous office worker in the building next door, playing a tantalizing game of daring all by baring all. And when a beautiful female cop gets shunned by the man she desires, she arrests him, handcuffs him and makes him a slave to her passions in payment for his crime in this Red Shoe Diaries collection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-23
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The Harrowing
Overview: Accused of the ritualistic murder of his best friend, a vice detective bent on finding the truth is plunged into Hell when he goes undercover and discovers that demons might be real.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-03
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The Rutanga Tapes
Overview: A U.S. agent saves a journalist and her son from an East German-Libyan chemical warfare plot in Africa.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-20
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Building A Better Mummy
Overview: An in-depth look into the creative and technical processes that brought us the heart-stopping visual effects of the film, with director Stephen Sommers and the crew at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-28
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DC Showcase Original Shorts Collection
Overview: An anthology of DC Showcase stories consisting of a new Superman/Shazam feature and extended versions of older shorts.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-09
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Con Express
Overview: A hotheaded Alaskan customs agent (Sean Patrick Flannery) unwillingly teams up with a coldhearted but beautiful Soviet agent (Ursula Karven) to capture a rogue Russian general (Arnold Vosloo), selling a shipment of deadly nerve gas. Tensions and passions spin out of control after two agents are left for dead and they must combine forces to survive. They have one chance laft to take out the General and destroy the "Apocalypse in a can" nerve agent, both speeding toward freedom on a runaway mountain train. Unexpected twists and terrifying turns along the way put everyone on a collision course for explosive action, pulse-pounding thrill and a devastating betrayal of trust.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-23
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American Meltdown
Overview: The telefilm centers on a present-day nuclear plant disaster and its aftermath.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-06
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Griekwastad
Overview: In 2012, Deon Steenkamp was murdered along with his wife Christel and their teenage daughter Marthella on their farm Naauwhoek. GRIEKWASTAD, based on the bestselling true crime novel by Jacques Steenkamp, tells the tale of the search to find the truth around these murders, however difficult and upsetting it may be.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2020-06-05
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Sniper: The Last Stand
Overview: To stop an arms dealer from unleashing a deadly superweapon, Ace sniper Brandon Beckett and Agent Zero are deployed to Costa Verde to lead a group of elite soldiers against an unrelenting militia. Taking an untested sniper under his wing, Beckett faces his newest challenge: giving orders instead of receiving them. With both time and ammo running low in a race to save humanity, the team must overcome all odds just to survive.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-21
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