Ian Roberts
Actor
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.
Filmography
Tremors 5: Bloodlines
as Den Bravers 2015
Tsotsi
as Captain Smit 2005
The Power of One
as Hoppie Gruenewald 1992
I Dreamed of Africa
as Mike Donovan 2000
Sweepers
as Yager 1998
Tarzan and the Lost City
as Captain Dooley 1998
Red Dust
as Piet Müller 2004
Cry, the Beloved Country
as Evans 1995
Jane and the Lost City
as Carl 1987
Cyborg Cop III
as Sheen 1995
Bakgat!
as Basjan du Preez 2008
Inside
as Guard Moolman 1996
Paljas
as Frans 1998
Wild Maneuvres
as Corp. White 1985
Mandela and de Klerk
as Kobie Coetsee 1997
A Kind of Madness
as Dan Hart 2025