Gerrit Schoonhoven

Actor

September 27, 1958 (62 years)

† October 20, 2020

Biography

Gerrit Schoonhoven (27 Sep 1958 – 20 Oct 2020) was a South African filmmaker, television director and actor. He is best known for directing the soapie Binnelanders.

Filmography

8.5

Getroud Met Rugby

Elvis

Getroud met Rugby is a drama revolving around four stars of a Johannesburg rugby team and their wives as they become involved in various interconnected scandals.

4.9

The Mangler

Aaron Rodriguez

A laundry-folding machine has been possessed by a demon, causing it to develop homicidal tendencies.

5.4

Sweet 'n Short

Savage

A disgraced sports presenter falls victim to an accidental head trauma and slips into a coma. He awakens months later to find that South Africa was not as he left it, he is now in the New South Africa, and his multimillion-Rand idea has been stolen from beneath him.

8.8

The Visual Bible: Matthew

Peter

The only dramatization using the actual scriptures...word for word from the New International Version (NIV). In Israel, then known as Judea of the Roman Empire, Nazarene Jesus Christ travels around the country with His disciples preaching to the people about God and salvation of their souls.

N/A

Broer Matie

Dirk Delport

A senior farmer of the Little Karoo dies and determines in his will that a brown minister must observe his funeral service. However, it is 1961 and apartheid is the order of the day.

6.8

Schuks: Pay Back the Money

Savage

After losing rugby’s holy grail, the Currie Cup, Schuks (Leon Schuster) sets off on a hilarious journey to pay for what he has done. In lieu of a R1 million fine, the Sports Minister (Desmond Dube) offers Schuks a lifeline to create a documentary film that shows South Africa in a positive light.As the documentary takes shape, the Currie Cup traverses its own perilous journey as it moves from two clueless crooks, Bossie (Ivan Lucas) and Savage (Gerrit Schoonhoven), to an enterprising traffic officer and a conniving pawnbroker, among others.True to form, the “documentary” features a series of brand new candid camera gags for which Schuster is so well known, featuring unsuspecting South African citizens and a host of famous personalities and celebrities - both past and current.

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