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. Andrews Preparatory School and St. Andrews 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.

All movies available from Ian Roberts

Poster movie I Dreamed of Africa

I Dreamed of Africa

Movie
Poster movie Tremors 5: Bloodlines

Tremors 5: Bloodlines

Movie
Poster movie The Power of One

The Power of One

Movie

Movies unavailable from Ian Roberts

Bakgat!

Basjan du Preez

Movie 2008

Cry, the Beloved Country

Evans

Movie 1995

Red Dust

Piet Müller

Movie 2004

Tarzan and the Lost City

Captain Dooley

Movie 1998

Bakgat 2

Basjan du Preez

Movie 2010

You Must Be Joking! Too

Various

Movie 1987

Paljas

Frans

Movie 1998

The Crossing

Movie 1988

A Reasonable Man

Chris Van Rooyen

Movie 1999

Wild Maneuvres

Corp. White

Movie 1985

Kalahari Harry

Kalahari Harry Morgan

Movie 1994

Heroes

Hendrik 'Hennie' du Preez

Movie 1986

The Horse Smuggler

Movie 1982

Anna Meintjies

Movie 1983

Askari

Ripshaw

Movie 2001

Cape Rebel

Sloet Steenkamp

Movie 1989

Bakgat 3

Basjan

Movie 2013

The Race-Ist

Noel Oosthuizen

Movie 2010

Eternity

Professor Tevis Shapiro

Movie 2010

Babalas

Boet

Movie 2013

The Fourth Reich

Johannes van der Walt

Movie 1990

Musiek Vir Die Agtergrond

Chris

Movie 2013

The Windmill

Doctor Rossouw

Movie 2014

Stuur Groete Aan Mannetjies Roux

Frans

Movie 2013

Tsotsi

Captain Smit

Movie 2005

Inside

Guard Moolman

Movie 1996

Sweepers

Yager

Movie 1998

Van der Merwe

Oupa Van der Merwe

Movie 2017

Dancing in the Forest

Thor

Movie 1988

Mia and the White Lion

John's Father

Movie 2018

In a Time of Violence: The Line

Lt. Danie Visser

Movie 1994

Cyborg Cop III

Sheen

Movie 1995

Number 10

Marius Kramer

Movie 2006

Mandela and de Klerk

Kobie Coetsee

Movie 1997

Jane and the Lost City

Carl

Movie 1987

Pusha Pressa Phanda

Movie 2021

Tv series unavailable from Ian Roberts

Arsenaal

Jack Degenaar

Tv 2002

Cape Town

Gerbrand Vos

Tv 2016

Erfsondes

Pote du Toit

Tv 2007

Wasted Spring

Hermaans Cronjé

Tv 1983

King Solomon's Mines

Sir Henry

Tv 2004

The Wild

Karel van Reenen

Tv 2011

Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond

Thys Tredoux

Tv 1997

Musiekpaniek

Self

Tv 2020

Arende

Sloet Steenkamp

Tv 1989