Ian Roberts

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1951-11-30 (72 years old)

Place of Birth Fort Beaufort, South Africa

Ian Roberts

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

Actor

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

2013
Babalas

as Boet

2011
The Wild

as Karel van Reenen

2010
Eternity

as Professor Tevis Shapiro

2010
Bakgat 2

as Basjan du Preez

2010
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
Red Dust

as Piet Müller

2004
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

1998
Tarzan and the Lost City

as Captain Dooley

1998
Paljas

as Frans

1997
Mandela and de Klerk

as Kobie Coetsee

1997
1996
Inside

as Guard Moolman

1995
1994
Kalahari Harry

as Kalahari Harry Morgan

1994
1992
The Power of One

as Hoppie Gruenewald

1990
The Fourth Reich

as Johannes van der Walt

1989
Cape Rebel

as Sloet Steenkamp

1989
Arende

as Sloet Steenkamp

1986
Heroes

as Hendrik 'Hennie' du Preez

1985
Wild Maneuvres

as Corp. White

1983
Wasted Spring

as Hermaans Cronjé

Writer

1994
Kalahari Harry

as Screenplay