
Ian Roberts
Known for: Acting
Born: November 30, 1951
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 t…
Known for

Kalahari Harry
1994
Heroes
1986

Cape Rebel
1989

Babalas
2013

Night of Fear
1986
The Crossing
1988

Stuur Groete Aan Mannetjies Roux
2013

Dancing in the Forest
1988
Number 10
2006

A Kind of Madness
2025

Wild Maneuvres
1985

The Race-Ist
2010

Red Dust
2004

Askari
2001

Musiek Vir Die Agtergrond
2013

Inside
1996

Sweepers
1998

Van der Merwe
2017

The Windmill
2014

Mandela and de Klerk
1997

Pusha Pressa Phanda
2021

Paljas
1998
The Horse Smuggler
1982
Anna Meintjies
1983
Eternity
2010

Bakgat 3
2013

The Fourth Reich
1990

Bakgat 2
2010

A Reasonable Man
1999

The Power of One
1992

Jane and the Lost City
1987

Tremors 5: Bloodlines
2015

Bakgat!
2008

Cry, the Beloved Country
1995

Tarzan and the Lost City
1998

You Must Be Joking! Too
1987

Cyborg Cop III
1995

Tsotsi
2005

I Dreamed of Africa
2000

In a Time of Violence: The Line
1994

3 Needles
2005

Mia and the White Lion
2018

Arsenaal
2002

Cape Town
2016

Erfsondes
2007
Wasted Spring
1983

King Solomon's Mines
2004

The Wild
2011

Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond
1997

Musiekpaniek
2020

Arende
1989

Appels en Tee
2025

Daisy de Melker
1993

The Play on One
1988

Reyka
2021