Rufus Swart

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Rufus Swart (1959-1994), film actor

Biography

According to a statement in IMDb and TVSA, repeated in several other sources, he was born in South Africa in 1959 and died in a car accident in Hawaii on February 17, 1994 in Hawaii, USA.

Career

He has had roles in Captive Rage (1988, as "Eddie"); The Shadowed Mind (wrote screenplay, played "Paul", 1988); River of Death (1989, as "Pare"), Purgatory (1989), The Fall of the House of Usher (1990), Massage in a Bottle (1993, as "Hollister"), Dust Devil (1993, as "Mark Robinson"), Cyborg Cop (1993, as "Cyborg").

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Sources

TVSA https://www.tvsa.co.za/actors/viewactor.aspx?actorid=17885.

https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba87d7433

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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.

He completed a doctoral thesis called Towards An Integrated Theory of Actor Training : Conjunctio Oppositorum and The Importance of Dual Consciousness at Stellenbosch University in 2014.

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.

In later years he has guest starred in numerous television series including the role of Yster in the kykNET drama series Vloeksteen, appearing in Season 1, Episode 2, which aired on 24 April, 2012.

The following year he guest starred in the kykNET crime drama anthology series Die Boland Moorde, playing the role of Pierre in Season 1, Episode 4 (which aired on 23 April, 2013).

Rufus next guest starred as Louis Saunders in the kykNET drama series Die Byl, appearing in Season 1, Episode 5 (which aired on 9 August, 2016).

Sources

Tucker, 1997. 451.

TVSA https://www.tvsa.co.za/actors/viewactor.aspx?actorid=17885.

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