Ian Roberts
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.
Acting
Movie
Mia and the White Lion
as John's Father
2018
Movie
Tremors 5: Bloodlines
as Den Bravers
2015
Movie
Tsotsi
as Captain Smit
2005
TV
King Solomon's Mines
as Sir Henry
2004
Movie
The Power of One
as Hoppie Gruenewald
1992
Movie
I Dreamed of Africa
as Mike Donovan
2000
Movie
Sweepers
as Yager
1998
Movie
Tarzan and the Lost City
as Captain Dooley
1998
Movie
Red Dust
as Piet Müller
2004
Movie
Cry, the Beloved Country
as Evans
1995
Movie
Jane and the Lost City
as Carl
1987
Movie
Cyborg Cop III
as Sheen
1995
Movie
Inside
as Guard Moolman
1996
Movie
Bakgat!
as Basjan du Preez
2008
Movie
Paljas
as Frans
1998
TV
Cape Town
as Gerbrand Vos
2016
Movie
Wild Maneuvres
as Corp. White
1985
Movie
Mandela and de Klerk
as Kobie Coetsee
1997
Movie
A Kind of Madness
as Dan Hart
2025
Movie
In a Time of Violence: The Line
as Lt. Danie Visser
1994
Movie
Bakgat 3
as Basjan
2013
TV
The Wild
as Karel van Reenen
2011
Movie
A Reasonable Man
as Chris Van Rooyen
1999
Movie
Askari
as Ripshaw
2001
