Mike Huff

Mike Huff (19**-) is an architect and a cabaret artist, session singer, dramatic actor.

Though best known in theatre, film and TV by his stage name, Mike Huff, he is also known as Michael Huff, Michael Hough or Mike Hough, and he appears to have signed contracts as Michael Hough.

Biography

Born Michael Hough, he attended in Churchill High School in Harare and Homestead High - Mequon, Milwaukee, USA. Then completed a Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) degree at the University of Cape Town.

Career as architect

He worked as a self-employed architect alongside his growing theatrical career, working for various firms, including Colyn & Meiring, Britz & Scholes, and others.

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

Stage

In his early days as a student (apparently performing as Michael Hough or Mike Hough), he was a cast member of a production of Hamlet by the University of Cape Town Drama Department in the Little Theatre (1969), and had a role in The Sport of My Mad Mother at the The Space (1972).

Taking on the stage name of Mike Huff, he went on to become a well known and widely appreciated performer. Among his many stage appearances have been:

Musicals

Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, The Rocky Horror Show and in Edith Piaf – No Regrets. He starred in Brickhill-Burke’s production of Neil Simon’s They're Playing Our Song together with Marloe Scott-Wilson at His Majesty’s in 1980. He starred in the Brickhill-Burke production of Jerry Herman’s musical Hello Dolly! together with Joan Brickhill, Victor Melleney, Iain Henderson, Andrea Catzel, June Hern and Charles Stodel. It was directed by Louis Burke and staged at His Majesty’s in 1980, Jimmy Righteous (1981). He starred in Janice Honeyman’s production, Forbidden Fruits, together with Jeremy Crutchley, Vanessa Cooke, Danny Keogh, Amanda Strydom and Annelisa Weiland at Upstairs at the Market in 1983/84. Little Shop of Horrors, Pieter Toerien, Richard Loring, (ass. Prod) Cameron Mackintosh, produced by Constance Grappo, set by Edward T. Gianfrancesco, Jannie Swanepoel’s lighting, André Huguenet Theatre, Jhb & Baxter Theatre 1985. He appeared as Colonel Goosen in The Biko Inquest (1985) as well as in Steve Biko: The Inquest. He starred in Grin and Bare It at the Victory Theatre in 1990. Played "Gaston" for PACT in Gigi (1992). He starred in Don't Dress for Dinner in 1993, The Sound of Music at the Staatstater, Pretoria in 1995,the musical Milestones (1999).

Other appearances on stage were in Antjie Somers, The Odd Couple, The Wizard of Oz, Milestones, Doubles, Hello, Dolly!, A Tale of Two Cities, Kafka Dances, Please tell us what's going on, please!, Singin' in the Rain, The Sound of Music, Sunset Boulevard, Cabaret (2015).

Marlow in She Stoops to Conquer for NAPAC, the Messenger in Barney Simon's The Dybbuk (1986), the jogger in I'm not Rappaport for CAPAB, David in We and Them.

Film and TV work

He has appeared in many international and South Arican films and TV dramas and series. among them Let the Music Be (1990)

Final Cut (1989)

Schweitzer (1990)

District 9 (2009),

Reed's Point (2022) Reed's Point 2.8 Radio announcer 2022

Oats Studios (2017) Oats Studios 6.3 TV Mini Series Politician 2017 1 episode

Rakka (2017) Rakka 7.3 Short Politician 2017

Blood and Glory (2016) Blood and Glory 6.4 English Doctor (uncredited) 2016

Diaan Lawrenson, Melanie du Bois, Jacques Blignaut, Anelisa Phewa, Hennie Jacobs, Corne Crous, Markus Haywood, Hildegardt Whites, and Masego Sehoole in 7de Laan (2000) 7de Laan 4.8 TV Series Douglas Fletcher 2016 1 episode

Jonathan Bailey, Akemnji Ndifornyen, Flora Spencer-Longhurst, and Colin Ryan in Leonardo (2011) Leonardo 6.4 TV Series Valerio 2011 4 episodes

Amanda Holden, Stephen Tompkinson, Lucy-Jo Hudson, Rafaella Hutchinson, and Luke Ward-Wilkinson in Wild at Heart (2006) Wild at Heart 7.4 TV Series Nick 2011 1 episode

District 9 (2009) District 9 7.9 MNU Doctor 2009

Endgame (2009) Endgame 6.2 Willem de Klerk 2009

Evolution Takes Care of Nature's Mistakes... It Missed One Cryptid 4.4 Eric 2006

The Trail (2006) The Trail 5.5 Mr. Barton 2006

Providence Kwimo in Whiskey Echo (2005) Whiskey Echo 8.1 TV Movie Antoine 2005

A Drink in the Passage 7.6 Short Mr. Du Toit 2002

Behind the Badge TV Series Director Brenen (2002) 2002

37 Honey St TV Series Prof. Larry Thompson (1998) 1998

George Buza and Zen Gesner in The Adventures of Sinbad (1996) The Adventures of Sinbad 7.0 TV Series Borell 1998 1 episode

My Liedjie van Verlange (1975), Westgate (1981), Thicker Than Water (1986), American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989), Vleuels (1989), Final Cut (1989), Crazy Camera (1989), Let the Music Be (1990), The Final Alliance (1990), Schweitzer (1990), River of Diamonds (1990), American Kickboxer (1991), African Skies (1992), Glaskasteel (1993), Die Sonkring II (1993), Project Shadowchaser II (1994), Dark Desires: Thelma (1994), The Adventures of Sinbad (1996), 37 Honey St (1998),

Radio and television

His work includes The Sound of Murder, The Beatle Song Book, Die Lewe Is..., Thicker Than Water.

Awards, etc

Nominated for Vita Award (Gauteng) 1996 for his role in Kafka Dances [best supporting actor].

Sources

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-huff-hough-b302619/?originalSubdomain=za

Astbury 1979.

Various entries in the NELM catalogue, including the Mannie Manim collection (MANIM, Mannie]_ 2010. 38. 2. 34. 12)

Hamlet programme, University of Cape Town Drama Department (1969).

SACD 1977/78; 1978/79.

Beeld, 12 August 1995.

Tucker, 1997.

We and Them programme notes, 1989.

http://www.artlink.co.za/news_article.htm?contentID=37197

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