M.P.O. Burgers
M.P.O. Burgers (19*-) was a journalist, stage, radio and film actor, playwright and translator.
Also known as M.P. Olivier Burgers, M.P. Burgers or Olivier Burgers, he was the brother of the beloved comedian of stage, radio and film, Frederik Burgers.
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Biography
Born in Johannesburg, the son of Philip Rudolph Burgers and Johanna Catharina Wilhelmina Adendorff. His father was an occasional actor.
Olivier Burgers was one of the first full-time broadcasters of the Afrikaans service of the Suid-Afrikaanse Uitsaaikorporasie (SAUK /SABC).
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
As writer
He adapted Eugène N. Marais's story Wegraak van Sannie as Sannie''. Published by J.L. van Schaik, Pretoria.
Translated Ibsen's Ghosts into Afrikaans as Spoke (first produced by ** with André Huguenet and Anna Neethling-Pohl in 194*), *.
As actor
One of the performers in the classic Afrikaans Hamlet]] of 1947.
As journalist
He reviewed and wrote on theatre for a number of publications, including Trans-Afrika, **, and **.
Sources
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