Ian Roberts

Known for ActingBorn 1951-11-30 (age 74)Fort Beaufort, South Africa

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Appels en Tee

The Race-Ist

Erfsondes

Daisy de Melker

Heroes

Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond

Number 10

Arsenaal

Van der Merwe

A Kind of Madness

Mia and the White Lion

The Power of One

Paljas

Musiekpaniek

Stuur Groete Aan Mannetjies Roux

Askari

Tsotsi

Mandela and de Klerk

Anna Meintjies

Cry, the Beloved Country

Cape Rebel

King Solomon's Mines

Bakgat 2

Cape Town

Kalahari Harry

3 Needles

The Fourth Reich

Dancing in the Forest

The Play on One

You Must Be Joking! Too

Red Dust

Wild Maneuvres

Bakgat!

In a Time of Violence: The Line

Reyka

Tremors 5: Bloodlines

A Reasonable Man

Babalas

I Dreamed of Africa

Bakgat 3

The Windmill

Inside

Jane and the Lost City

Sweepers

Tarzan and the Lost City

Cyborg Cop III

The Wild

Pusha Pressa Phanda