Kurt Egelhof
EGELHOF, Kurt. (19*-) Actor. *
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Biography
Training
Graduated from the University of Natal in 1980 where he majored in Speech and Drama and Economic History.
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Starred in Bobby Heaney's productions of Samuel Beckett's Catastrophe at the Wits Theatre in 1985, ** He also appeared in En Die Son Skyn in Suid-Afrika, Brothers in Blood, Black Dog-Inj'emnyama!, Just Business, Just Like Home, Gathering of the Beasts, Man Friday, Daniel, Smitty in Fortune and Men's Eyes. For The Company at the Market Theatre he appeared in Black Nativity and The Bacchae. In 1985 he played John in the SATO production of The Island.
He founded the Johannesburg-based film company Kurt Egelhof Productions in the 1990s.
Awards, etc
He was nominated for "Best Newcomer to the Stage Award" in 1981 by the Durban Critics Circle.
Sources
The Island (SATO production) theatre programme, 1983.
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