Willie Esterhuizen
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(****-****). Actor. Studied ballet at UCT and drama at Arts Educational in London. Worked with CAPAB. (SACD 1978/79)
He was the winner of the Amstel Playwright of the Year Special Merit Award in 1981 for his play Spaceships and Peanut Butter.
ESTERHUIZEN, Willie. (19**-) Actor for stage, television, and film, and hugely successful scriptwriter for television sitcoms. His most memorable television sitcom-series were Orkney Snork Nie (= “Orkney does not snore”) and Vetkoekpaleis (= “palace of doughnuts”). In the latter he also played the central character, “Worsie” (= “Little Sausage”).
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