Rufus Swart
There appear to be two theatre and film personalities bearing this name, with South African links .
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Rufus Swart (1959-1994), film actor
Biography
According to a statement in TVSA, repeated in several other sources, he was born in South Africa in 1959 and died in a car accident in Hawaii in 1994. .
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Training
Sources
TVSA https://www.tvsa.co.za/actors/viewactor.aspx?actorid=17885.
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Rufus Swart (19*-). South African actor, director, playwright and teacher.
Biography
According to a statement in TVSA, repeated in several other sources, he died in Hawaii in 1994. This is incorrect. Rufus taught at the Stellenbosch University Drama Department for a number of years until 2015. His date of birth is given as 1959.
Training
BA Dramatic Art at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, (1981 – 82); he also trained at the Herbert Bergof Studio in New York
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Rufus performed in ten student productions before turning professional.
He also performed in a number of workshop productions based on high school set works whilst a repertory player with the Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal (PACT) in ’84, including Macbeth. He acted in Superheroes at the Market Theatre in the early 1980s and as “Maxime” in Hotel Paradiso (PACT 1984), in William M. Hoffman’s As Is which was directed by Janice Honeyman in 1986, Carvings of Conflict (for CAPAB at the 1987 Grahamstown Festival) and in Corpse! 1987.
He directed and starred in Softer than Rock, 1990.
He wrote the play Let the Spear Fit the Wound and is a co-writer of 'n Skewe Sirkel.
Rufus directed a student production of Roep van die Naguiltjie in 2010.
On television he is best known for his starring role as Dekker Hattingh in the TV1 drama series Sonkring, from 1991-1993. Other television series he has acted in include Die Rooi Komplot, Skoolplaas Stories, Ouens Soos Ons, Slimjanne, and Tropical Heat.
Sources
Tucker, 1997. 451.
TVSA https://www.tvsa.co.za/actors/viewactor.aspx?actorid=17885.
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