Ian Roberts
Born: 1951-11-30 in Fort Beaufort, South Africa
Known For: Acting
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
2025
- Appels en Tee as Jakkals Boshoff
- A Kind of Madness as Dan Hart
2021
2020
- Musiekpaniek as Self
2018
- Mia and the White Lion as John's Father
2017
- Van der Merwe as Oupa Van der Merwe
2016
- Cape Town as Gerbrand Vos
2015
- Tremors 5: Bloodlines as Den Bravers
2014
- The Windmill as Doctor Rossouw
2013
- Bakgat 3 as Basjan
- Stuur Groete Aan Mannetjies Roux as Frans
- Babalas as Boet
- Musiek Vir Die Agtergrond as Chris
2011
- The Wild as Karel van Reenen
2010
- Eternity as Professor Tevis Shapiro
- Bakgat 2 as Basjan du Preez
- The Race-Ist as Noel Oosthuizen
2008
- Bakgat! as Basjan du Preez
2007
- Erfsondes as Pote du Toit
2006
- Number 10 as Marius Kramer
2005
- Tsotsi as Captain Smit
2004
- King Solomon's Mines as Sir Henry
- Red Dust as Piet Müller
2002
- Arsenaal as Jack Degenaar
2001
- Askari as Ripshaw
2000
- I Dreamed of Africa as Mike Donovan
1999
- A Reasonable Man as Chris Van Rooyen
1998
- Sweepers as Yager
- Tarzan and the Lost City as Captain Dooley
- Paljas as Frans
1997
- Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond as Thys Tredoux
- Mandela and de Klerk as Kobie Coetsee
1996
- Inside as Guard Moolman
1995
- Cry, the Beloved Country as Evans
- Cyborg Cop III as Sheen
1994
- Kalahari Harry as Kalahari Harry Morgan
- In a Time of Violence: The Line as Lt. Danie Visser
1993
- Daisy de Melker as Sid de Melker
1992
- The Power of One as Hoppie Gruenewald
1990
- The Fourth Reich as Johannes van der Walt
1989
- Arende as Sloet Steenkamp
- Cape Rebel as Sloet Steenkamp
1988
- Dancing in the Forest as Thor
- The Crossing
1987
- Jane and the Lost City as Carl
- You Must Be Joking! Too as Various
1986
- Night of Fear as Steve Vosloo
- Heroes as Hendrik 'Hennie' du Preez
1985
- Wild Maneuvres as Corp. White
1983
- Wasted Spring as Hermaans Cronjé
- Anna Meintjies