Ian Roberts
Acting
Born 1951-11-30
Fort Beaufort, South Africa
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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.
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Filmography
Acting
51 credits
The Wild
The Play on One
Reyka
King Solomon's Mines
Mia and the White Lion
Tremors 5: Bloodlines
Erfsondes
Arende
Sweepers
The Power of One
Musiekpaniek
Cape Town
Tsotsi
Daisy de Melker
Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond
Tarzan and the Lost City
Red Dust
I Dreamed of Africa
Appels en Tee
Cry, the Beloved Country
Paljas
3 Needles
Arsenaal
Jane and the Lost City
Cyborg Cop III
Askari
Inside
Wasted Spring
Bakgat!
Mandela and de Klerk
Bakgat 3
In a Time of Violence: The Line
Wild Maneuvres
Van der Merwe
A Kind of Madness
Dancing in the Forest
Bakgat 2
The Fourth Reich
Kalahari Harry
Stuur Groete Aan Mannetjies Roux
A Reasonable Man
Eternity
The Windmill
You Must Be Joking! Too
The Race-Ist
Babalas
Night of Fear
Number 10
Cape Rebel
Heroes
Musiek Vir Die Agtergrond
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Writing
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