Paul Slabolepszy

Paul Slabolepszy

Born: January 1, 1948
in Bolton, England
Paul Slabolepszy (born 1948) is an English-born South African playwright and actor best known for his seminal play (and later feature film) Saturday Night at the Palace (1987), which he also starred in. He was a founder member of The Space Theatre, South Africa's first non-racial theatre company, with Athol Fugard, Yvonne Bryceland and John Kani in 1972. He was also a founder member of world renowned Market Theatre in Johannesburg, together with Mannie Manim and Barney Simon, in 1976. He created and wrote the SABC2 sitcom Konsternasie Oppie Stasie, which debuted in July 2009. He also plays the recurring role of Snowy in six episodes.

Movies for Paul Slabolepszy...

Vaatjie gets owned
Title: Vaatjie gets owned
Character: Smuggler
Released: December 24, 2008
Type: Movie
The misadventures Vaatjie Venter, a talented pastry chef and the top student at the hotel school where he is training. Vattjie becomes the lead candidate to win a scholarship to train under world famous master chef Pierre Cousteau in Paris. But Vaatjie's charmed life is tested to its limits when his jealous classmate James tries to prevent Vaatije from winning the opportunity of a lifetime.
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Running Riot
Title: Running Riot
Character: Crispin Wentzel
Released: December 14, 2006
Type: Movie
Tjokkie and Crispin decide to take a bet with their rival, Ratkas Koekemoor that Crispin can beat him in the Comrades marathon.His wife suspect he really wants to go to Durban to fool around, so she hires a private detective to keep an on him. In Durban, he meets and falls for a stunning Russian athlete, but her ex-KGB trainer also has his eye on her. One thing leads to another, and after the race, things come to a head as the competing lovers, coach, and private detective find themselves in compromising and complicated situations.
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Heel Against the Head
Title: Heel Against the Head
Character: Crispin Wentzel
Released: August 15, 1999
Type: Movie
Two rugby fans, Tjokkie and Crispin arrive in Wales for the Rugby World Cup in search of sport and females. All hell breaks loose when Crispin's wife arrives unexpectedly and Tjokkie has to cover for his friend.
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Taxi to Soweto
Title: Taxi to Soweto
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: October 31, 1991
Type: Movie
A Gentle story with a moral of forgive and forget at the kernel of its’ comedy exterior ~ but also one that accurately foretold the changes that were to sweep across South Africa in 1994, as an uptight suburban Johannesburg housewife (Elize Cawood, with an equally uptight husband played by Marius Weyers) accepts a lift from a Sowetan taxi driver (Patrick Shai) and gets taken into another world entirely
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Reason to Die
Title: Reason to Die
Character: Kyle Bellows
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A cop sets up his girlfriend as a target in order to trap a serial killer.
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Saturday Night at the Palace
Title: Saturday Night at the Palace
Released: December 12, 1987
Type: Movie
South African drama set at a roadhouse in Apartheid.
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Wild Maneuvres
Title: Wild Maneuvres
Character: The Horror
Released: June 25, 1985
Type: Movie
Military-Comedy. Sequel to "Boetie gaan border toe". Boetie (Translated into English as 'Buddy' or "Brother") wants to win his girlfriend Liza back, who just dumped him. With the help of some money, he engineers that she is assigned as reporter to the planned manoeuvres, where he would love to impress her. However, things turn out different as Buddy and his comrades are assigned to do the manual labour during the manoeuvres, and the arrogant Captain humiliating them turns out to be Liza's new boyfriend. But when a bunch of criminal madmen disturb the manoeuvre and take a hostage, it is up to Buddy and his comrades to rescue the hostage, their honour - and the girl's love.
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Title: Auf Achse
Released: October 28, 1980
Type: TV