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Revision as of 06:53, 12 February 2024
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.
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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)
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
6.2
Willem de Klerk
2009
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), Behind the Badge (2002), A Drink in the Passage (2002), Whiskey Echo (2005), The Trail (2006), Wild at Heart (2006), Endgame (2009), District 9 (2009), Leonardo (2011),
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
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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