André Scholtz
André Scholtz (1945-2024). Filmmaker.
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Biography
He studied at the University of the Orange free State in the 1960s, and before becoming a producer, he was the financial and planning manager for Ster-Kinekor Films, completing a masters degree in business leadership in the same period.
He passed away peacefully at his home in Cape Town on 30 September, 2024, having battled cancer for a while. He is survived by his wife Riana, five children, Gertruida, Michael, Mara-lee, Dries and Kristo and seven grandchildren.
André Scholtz worked for five decades in South Africa's film and TV industry and was a producer and co-producer of more than 29 full-length feature films, as well as seven drama and comedy series for the SABC, M-Net and kykNET.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Scholtz’s career in the entertainment industry spanned more than five decades, during which time he produced and co-produced 35 feature films including South African favourites such as 'n PawPaw vir My Darling, Meerkat Maantuig, two instalments of You Must Be Joking, Die Wonderwerker released in 2012 and Toorbos (2016) and all of the movies in the Oh Shucks franchise, where he worked with his long-time friend and award-winning film-maker, Leon Schuster. Panic Mechanic (1996), Rainbow Skellums (2009) and Ek Joke Net (2011), Angus Buchan's Ordinary People (2012) .
He had also produced numerous television series, including Dryfsand (Kyknet, 2007) and P.G. du Plessis's Feast of the Uninvited.
Sources
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0774652/
Thinus Ferreira. 2024. "Veteran producer André Scholtz dead at 79 after losing his battle against cancer", TV with Thinus[1] (posted Monday, September 30, 2024)
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