Ian Roberts

Ian Roberts

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.

  • Title : Ian Roberts
  • Popularity : 9.134
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1951-11-30
  • Place of Birth : Fort Beaufort, South Africa
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Ian Roberts Movies

  • 2008
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    Bakgat!

    Bakgat!

    6.2 2008 HD

    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...

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  • 1995
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    Cry, the Beloved Country

    Cry, the Beloved Country

    6.7 1995 HD

    A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.

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  • 2004
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    Red Dust

    Red Dust

    5.8 2004 HD

    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...

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  • 1998
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    Tarzan and the Lost City

    Tarzan and the Lost City

    4.2 1998 HD

    Tarzan returns to his homeland of Africa to save his home from destruction.

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  • 2010
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    Bakgat 2

    Bakgat 2

    6 2010 HD

    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,...

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  • 1987
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    You Must Be Joking! Too

    You Must Be Joking! Too

    6 1987 HD

    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...

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  • 1998
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    Paljas

    Paljas

    7.2 1998 HD

    Follows the deterioration of an Afrikaner family isolated and shunned in the small community of Toorwater. Nothing seems to happen. Then a circus...

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  • 1988
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    The Crossing

    The Crossing

    1 1988 HD

    A South African girl guides anti-apartheid guerrilla fighters across the border from Botswana to South Africa.

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  • 1999
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    A Reasonable Man

    A Reasonable Man

    4.5 1999 HD

    With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.

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  • 1985
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    Wild Maneuvres

    Wild Maneuvres

    6.9 1985 HD

    Military-Comedy. Sequel to "Boetie gaan border toe". Boetie (Translated into English as 'Buddy' or "Brother") wants to win his girlfriend Liza back,...

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  • 1994
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    Kalahari Harry

    Kalahari Harry

    5 1994 HD

    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....

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  • 1986
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    Heroes

    Heroes

    1 1986 HD

    South African TV Movie

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  • 1983
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    Anna Meintjies

    Anna Meintjies

    1 1983 HD

    South African TV Movie

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  • 1982
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    The Horse Smuggler

    The Horse Smuggler

    1 1982 HD

    South African TV Movie

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  • 2001
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    Askari

    Askari

    1 2001 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    Cape Rebel

    Cape Rebel

    6.5 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 2013
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    Bakgat 3

    Bakgat 3

    5.1 2013 HD

    Rugby hero, Wimpie Koekemoer, and his wild friends return to our screens in the third instalment of the successful Bakgat! movies. Newly engaged...

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  • 2010
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    The Race-Ist

    The Race-Ist

    10 2010 HD

    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...

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  • 2010
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    Eternity

    Eternity

    1 2010 HD

    Handsome young vampire Billy (Andre Frauenstein) seems to have finally found his true love in Jenny Shapiro (Rikki Brest), a beautiful young woman he...

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  • 2013
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    Babalas

    Babalas

    5.5 2013 HD

    Mia Moolman works for a Sandton-based event coordination company that has been commissioned by the department of Trade and Industry to create an...

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  • 1990
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    The Fourth Reich

    The Fourth Reich

    6 1990 HD

    Robey Leibbrandt was a South African boxer who became fascinated with Nazi ideology during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. In1939 he led an...

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  • 2013
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    Musiek Vir Die Agtergrond

    Musiek Vir Die Agtergrond

    1 2013 HD

    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...

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  • 2014
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    The Windmill

    The Windmill

    5.5 2014 HD

    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...

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  • 2013
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    Stuur Groete Aan Mannetjies Roux

    Stuur Groete Aan Mannetjies Roux

    7 2013 HD

    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...

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  • 2005
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    Tsotsi

    Tsotsi

    7 2005 HD

    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...

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  • 2000
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    I Dreamed of Africa

    I Dreamed of Africa

    5.481 2000 HD

    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...

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  • 1996
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    Inside

    Inside

    4.6 1996 HD

    A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the...

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  • 1998
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    Sweepers

    Sweepers

    4.2 1998 HD

    Dolph Lundgren is Christian Erickson, a leading demolition expert trained to disarm mine fields in a humanitarian minesweeping operation in Angola....

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  • 2015
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    Tremors 5: Bloodlines

    Tremors 5: Bloodlines

    5.5 2015 HD

    When Gummer is hired to capture a deadly creature terrorizing South Africa, he and his new sidekick, Travis Welker, engage in another battle of...

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  • 2017
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    Van der Merwe

    Van der Merwe

    7.5 2017 HD

    Van der Merwe, a bumbling farmer from a traditional Afrikaans family, struggles to keep his family together when his daughter returns from England...

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  • 1988
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    Dancing in the Forest

    Dancing in the Forest

    4 1988 HD

    Sy Winter, a young idealistic American, becomes stranded high in the mountain woods. Attracted by the beautiful Tanya, he is trapped into working for...

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  • 2018
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    Mia and the White Lion

    Mia and the White Lion

    7.3 2018 HD

    A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

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  • 1994
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    In a Time of Violence: The Line

    In a Time of Violence: The Line

    5 1994 HD

    This controversial political thriller, which provoked mass demonstrations and nine deaths in South Africa when it was first shown, gives dramatic...

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  • 1995
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    Cyborg Cop III

    Cyborg Cop III

    3.5 1995 HD

    A cop tries to stop a scientist's experiments to turn students into cyborg-mercenaries.

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  • 1992
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    The Power of One

    The Power of One

    7.5 1992 HD

    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....

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  • 2006
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    Number 10

    Number 10

    1 2006 HD

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  • 1997
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    Mandela and de Klerk

    Mandela and de Klerk

    6.4 1997 HD

    Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's...

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  • 1987
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    Jane and the Lost City

    Jane and the Lost City

    4.3 1987 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    Pusha Pressa Phanda

    Pusha Pressa Phanda

    1 2021 HD

    “Pusha Pressa Phanda” is a dissection of freedom. Taking place in one day, the film follows street youth Mandisa as she struggles to...

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  • 1994
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    Kalahari Harry

    Kalahari Harry

    5 1994 HD

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  • 2002
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    Arsenaal

    Arsenaal

    8 2002 HD

    Arsenaal is a South African, Afrikaans-language thriller drama television series created, written and directed by Jan Scholtz and produced by his...

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  • 2016
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    Cape Town

    Cape Town

    6.4 2016 HD

    Cape Town. Police captain Mat Joubert used to be the best, solved every crime, got every killer. But that was a year ago, before his wife Lara was...

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  • 2007
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    Erfsondes

    Erfsondes

    9 2007 HD

    A South African Afrikaans series about broken families and the lies and deceit within them and how sins committed to do good can come back to haunt...

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  • 1983
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    Wasted Spring

    Wasted Spring

    1 1983 HD

    Pop le Roux is a beautiful, but relatively uneducated, boer girl from a poor family. The young men of the county all compete with each other to win...

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  • 2004
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    King Solomon's Mines

    King Solomon's Mines

    6.3 2004 HD

    Renowned safari hunter Allan Quatermain is lured back into the unknown recesses of the African jungles to find a man who disappeared while searching...

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  • 2011
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    The Wild

    The Wild

    4 2011 HD

    The Wild is a South African soap opera created by Rohan Dickson, Richard Nosworthy and Bronwyn Berry and produced by M-Net's in-house production arm...

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  • 1997
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    Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond

    Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond

    8.5 1997 HD

    Onder Draai die Duiwel Rond is a South African television drama series created and written by Chris Barnard and produced by Sonneblom Films about...

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  • 2020
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    Musiekpaniek

    Musiekpaniek

    7 2020 HD

    A game show in which top Afrikaans music artists and their fans battle it out in the studio in a tough music quiz.

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  • 1989
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    Arende

    Arende

    1 1989 HD

    Epic drama follows a group of Boers during significant events in South African history. The first series is primarily set on St. Helena and follows...

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