Loading amazing content...
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 30, 1951
Place of Birth
Fort Beaufort, South Africa
Ian Roberts
0.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
10.0
Jakkals Boshoff
Appels en Tee
2025
7.5
Dan Hart
A Kind of Madness
2025
0.0
Pusha Pressa Phanda
2021
7.0
Self
Musiekpaniek
2020
7.3
John's Father
Mia and the White Lion
2018
7.5
Oupa Van der Merwe
Van der Merwe
2017
5.7
Gerbrand Vos
Cape Town
2016
5.5
Den Bravers
Tremors 5: Bloodlines
2015
5.5
Doctor Rossouw
The Windmill
2014
7.0
Frans
Stuur Groete Aan Mannetjies Roux
2013
Credits
Appels en Tee
as Jakkals Boshoff
2025
10.0
A Kind of Madness
as Dan Hart
2025
7.5
Pusha Pressa Phanda
2021
0.0
Musiekpaniek
as Self
2020
7.0
Mia and the White Lion
as John's Father
2018
7.3
Van der Merwe
as Oupa Van der Merwe
2017
7.5
Cape Town
as Gerbrand Vos
2016
5.7
Tremors 5: Bloodlines
as Den Bravers
2015
5.5
The Windmill
as Doctor Rossouw
2014
5.5
Stuur Groete Aan Mannetjies Roux
as Frans
2013
7.0
Musiek Vir Die Agtergrond
as Chris
2013
0.0
Bakgat 3
as Basjan
2013
5.1
Babalas
as Boet
2013
5.5
The Wild
as Karel van Reenen
2011
2.8
🎬
Eternity
as Professor Tevis Shapiro
2010
0.0
Bakgat 2
as Basjan du Preez
2010
6.0
The Race-Ist
as Noel Oosthuizen
2010
10.0
Bakgat!
as Basjan du Preez
2008
5.7
Erfsondes
as Pote du Toit
2007
9.0
🎬
Number 10
as Marius Kramer
2006
0.0
Tsotsi
as Captain Smit
2005
6.9
King Solomon's Mines
as Sir Henry
2004
6.2
Red Dust
as Piet Müller
2004
5.8
Arsenaal
as Jack Degenaar
2002
8.0
Askari
as Ripshaw
2001
5.5
I Dreamed of Africa
as Mike Donovan
2000
5.4
🎬
A Reasonable Man
as Chris Van Rooyen
1999
4.5
Sweepers
as Yager
1998
4.3
Tarzan and the Lost City
as Captain Dooley
1998
4.2
Paljas
as Frans
1998
7.2
Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond
as Thys Tredoux
1997
8.5
Mandela and de Klerk
as Kobie Coetsee
1997
6.5
Inside
as Guard Moolman
1996
4.3
Cry, the Beloved Country
as Evans
1995
6.7
Cyborg Cop III
as Sheen
1995
3.9
Kalahari Harry
as Kalahari Harry Morgan
1994
5.0
In a Time of Violence: The Line
as Lt. Danie Visser
1994
5.0
Daisy de Melker
as Sid de Melker
1993
9.0
The Power of One
as Hoppie Gruenewald
1992
7.5
The Fourth Reich
as Johannes van der Walt
1990
6.0
Arende
as Sloet Steenkamp
1989
0.0
Cape Rebel
as Sloet Steenkamp
1989
6.5
🎬
The Crossing
1988
0.0
Dancing in the Forest
as Thor
1988
4.0
Jane and the Lost City
as Carl
1987
4.2
You Must Be Joking! Too
as Various
1987
6.0
🎬
Heroes
as Hendrik 'Hennie' du Preez
1986
0.0
Night of Fear
as Steve Vosloo
1986
0.0
Wild Maneuvres
as Corp. White
1985
5.9
🎬
Anna Meintjies
1983
0.0
🎬
Wasted Spring
as Hermaans Cronjé
1983
0.0
🎬
The Horse Smuggler
1982
0.0