Dick Reineke

Dick Reineke (19**-). Actor. Also credited as Dick Reinecke.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

His career started in the 1950s, followed by many years with PACT and Adam Leslie. In the early 1970s he founded the strolling players company Prester John Enterprises. He has both performed in and directed many Shakespearean productions, including the lead in Hamlet, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew and Ariel in The Tempest.

He starred in The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1965), Fireking1 (1988) and in the one-man play Goya at the 1994 National Arts Festival.

He has also performed in television and feature films.

Sources

1994 National Arts Festival programme, 53.

IMDb [1].

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