Ian Roberts

Ian Roberts

  • Birthday: 1951-11-30
  • Place of birth: Fort Beaufort, South Africa

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.

Filmography

Kalahari Harry

1994

As Kalahari Harry Morgan

Arende

1994

As Sloet Steenkamp

Babalas

2013

As Boet

Heroes

1986

As Hendrik 'Hennie' du Preez

Number 10

2006

As Marius Kramer

The Crossing

1988

As

Wild Maneuvres

1985

As Corp. White

The Race-Ist

2010

As Noel Oosthuizen

Red Dust

2004

As Piet Müller

The Windmill

2014

As Doctor Rossouw

Inside

1996

As Guard Moolman

Sweepers

1998

As Yager

Van der Merwe

2017

As Oupa Van der Merwe

Askari

2001

As Ripshaw

Paljas

1998

As Frans

Eternity

2010

As Professor Tevis Shapiro

Bakgat 3

2013

As Basjan

Mandela and de Klerk

1997

As Kobie Coetsee

The Fourth Reich

1990

As Johannes van der Walt

Bakgat 2

2010

As Basjan du Preez

A Reasonable Man

1999

As Chris Van Rooyen

The Power of One

1992

As Hoppie Gruenewald

Tremors 5: Bloodlines

2015

As Den Bravers

Bakgat!

2008

As Basjan du Preez

Tarzan and the Lost City

1998

As Captain Dooley

You Must Be Joking! Too

1987

As Various

Cyborg Cop III

1995

As Sheen

Tsotsi

2005

As Captain Smit

I Dreamed of Africa

2000

As Mike Donovan

In a Time of Violence: The Line

1994

As Lt. Danie Visser

Mia and the White Lion

2018

As John's Father

Production

Kalahari Harry

1994

As Screenplay

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