Kurt Egelhof

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Kurt Egelhof. (19*-) Actor.

Biography

The performer Talia Egelhof is his daughter.

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 wrote and performed in For Generations presented by Applauz Arts Initiative at the National Arts Festival Fringe, 2008 and Montecasino Theatre in 2009, directed by Nicholas Fine. (Star 26 May 2009).

New theatre company, ECE Productions, founded by Charles Comyn, Elliot Frans and Kurt Egelhof, (The Citizen of 2.5.1989).

He founded the Johannesburg-based film company Kurt Egelhof Productions in the 1990s.

He had roles in the films The Native Who Caused All the Trouble and Zulu Love Letter.

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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