Marius Weyers

Marius Weyers

Born: February 3, 1945
in Johannesburg, South Africa

Movies for Marius Weyers...

The Story of Racheltjie De Beer
Title: The Story of Racheltjie De Beer
Character: George
Released: October 18, 2019
Type: Movie
South African wilderness 1800's. Five years after their mother died, Rachel, a girl on the cusp of adolescence and 5-year-old Jamie find themselves on their way to the virgin gold fields with their father, Herman, as he tries to start a new life. When Jamie goes missing in a freak snow blizzard, Rachel braves the storm to look for her little brother.
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Die Seemeeu
Title: Die Seemeeu
Character: Piet
Released: April 5, 2019
Type: Movie
Christiaan Olwagen (Johnny is nie Dood nie, Kanarie) adapts Anton Chekhov's classic play, The Seagull, to film, and places it in South Africa in the 1990’s, almost one hundred years after it was written.
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The Recce
Title: The Recce
Character: General Piet Visagie
Released: September 28, 2018
Type: Movie
After the South African Defense Force wrongfully declares young Recce Henk Viljoen dead behind enemy lines, it’s up to him alone to use every skill and tool in his arsenal to make it back to his grieving wife.
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Two Degrees of Murder
Title: Two Degrees of Murder
Character: Ben Cloete
Released: July 22, 2016
Type: Movie
An Afrikaans film. Two women, two murders. One homicide reflects the ultimate act of self-centredness, the other the greatest selfless act of them all.
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Title: Die Byl
Character: Petrus "Priester" Lotz
Released: July 12, 2016
Type: TV
The unit specializes in the investigation of serial murders and is led by Van der Bijl, a former murder and robbery detective who gained fame for his handling of several high-profile cases. Each episode focuses on a serial killer. The main character, Colonel Piet van der Bijl, also known as Die Byl, is loosely modeled on the famous ex-detective Piet Byleveld.
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Dis ek, Anna
Title: Dis ek, Anna
Character: Windhond Weber
Released: October 23, 2015
Type: Movie
Set in modern-day South Africa, it tells the story of Anna Bruwer, who avenges years of abuse suffered at the hands of her stepfather and the court case that ensues.
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Title: Republiek van Zoid Afrika
Character: Self
Released: July 10, 2014
Type: TV
Karen Zoid's talk show with comic sketches, visits with influential and exceptional people, and music that will take your breath away.
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Pad Na Jou Hart
Title: Pad Na Jou Hart
Character: Basson Snr
Released: February 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Basson has five days to make it to his father's funeral in Cape Town, but needs to complete certain tasks on this trip before he can call the family company his own. On the road he meets free-spirited bohemian girl, Amory. As they journey across the breathtaking landscape of South Africa, they meet wonderful characters that allow for hilarious moments and life-changing experiences. Their trip takes a sudden turn for the worst when a villainous figure makes an appearance. Basson and Amory are faced with disappointment and heartache. On the road called life, it is inevitable that you will take some wrong turns. But no matter how hard the road might be, on route to true love is where you will find your true north.
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Faan's Train
Title: Faan's Train
Released: January 24, 2014
Type: Movie
Faan se Trein is about a simple-minded man living in a tiny Karoo community. When his father dies, leaving all his possessions to Faan and the church, greed rears its head and divides the community... Until love restores their sanity.
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Nothing for Mahala
Title: Nothing for Mahala
Character: Hendrik Botha
Released: October 4, 2013
Type: Movie
Nothing for Mahala is a comedic film that follows Ace (Thapelo Mokoena) into his deep and unpleasant hole of debt and financial woes. Ace who likes to play the part of the high flier is forced to get money from illegal loan sharks, which eventually lands him into some legal trouble. The result is Ace doing community service at an old age home, where much is learnt about finances, life and what really holds value.
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The Last Tango
Title: The Last Tango
Character: Capt Mauritz Duvenhage
Released: July 5, 2013
Type: Movie
The story revolves around a 34-year old, workaholic detective who is burnt out, having immersed himself in an investigation involving the ruthless murder of nine girls. He managed to capture the killer, but his emotions get the better of him, possibly jeopardising the trial. His boss sends him away to cool down, and he ends up in a small town in the middle of the Karoo. Here, he meets a passionate and beautiful woman who is dying of cancer. His only goal is to fight boredom until he is allowed to resume his detective duties, while her dying wish is to dance one last tango before her life is over. He reluctantly agrees. Meanwhile the murderer wakes from his sedation and puts his plan for revenge into motion
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The Miracle Worker
Title: The Miracle Worker
Character: Gys van Rooyen
Released: September 7, 2012
Type: Movie
Die Wonderwerker tells the story of Eugène Marais, a famous Afrikaans writer, poet and researcher. The story focuses on the few months he spends on the Van Rooyen's farm, where he falls in love with the 19-year-old Jane Brayshaw.
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Deadly Harvest
Title: Deadly Harvest
Released: February 18, 2008
Type: Movie
Marisa and Frank honeymoon in South Africa. A particularly favourable offer lures them to a lonely and run-down hotel. There, they are attacked by men. Frank is beaten and kidnapped, while Marisa barely escapes. She receives help from the young South African Biko, who helps her to escape the men. Marisa and Biko find out that people are abducted to be cannibalized for the trade in organs. Finally, the two try to find frank and save him.
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Blood Diamond
Title: Blood Diamond
Character: Van De Kaap
Released: December 8, 2006
Type: Movie
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
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Catch a Fire
Title: Catch a Fire
Character: Police Brigadier
Released: October 27, 2006
Type: Movie
The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.
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Title: The Triangle
Character: Karl Sheedy
Released: December 5, 2005
Type: TV
A shipping magnate hires four experts from various fields to investigate what happened to his ships that went missing in the Bermuda Triangle. The team discovers a threat that might unravel time itself and cause the world to end.
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Title: The Triangle
Released: December 5, 2005
Type: TV
A shipping magnate hires four experts from various fields to investigate what happened to his ships that went missing in the Bermuda Triangle. The team discovers a threat that might unravel time itself and cause the world to end.
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Title: Amalia
Character: kapt. Wollie de Wet
Released: April 14, 2005
Type: TV
Amalia is a South African television drama series created by Chris Barnard, directed by Katinka Heyns and produced by Sonneblom Films about an unsolved murder where all the inhabitants of a small town are suspects. The series is in Afrikaans, with English subtitles.
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Skilpoppe
Title: Skilpoppe
Character: Mr. Meyer
Released: September 27, 2004
Type: Movie
Skilpoppe is a gripping look at a South African tragedy, as seen through the eyes of a 17 year old girl. It touches on social issues like suicide, drug addiction and homophobia in a tender and humerous way. The story follows Anna Meyer, a schoolgirl who wins the role of Juliet in her school's production of Romeo and Juliet. She struggles to come to terms with the deeper, darker side of her personality; mostly because she still needs to exercise the demons from a tragedy in her own life.
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Red Dust
Title: Red Dust
Character: Ben Hoffman
Released: January 11, 2004
Type: Movie
Sarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood dwelling place to intercede for Alex Mpondo, a Black South African politician who was tortured during apartheid.
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Critical Assignment
Title: Critical Assignment
Character: Thomas Rhines
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
The President of an African country decrees that the Arms budget will be diverted in to the "Water For All", project. The journalist, Michael Power, discovers a Coup set by the arms dealers.
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Stander
Title: Stander
Character: General Stander
Released: October 10, 2003
Type: Movie
The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.
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Pure Blood
Title: Pure Blood
Character: General
Released: July 14, 2000
Type: Movie
Combining a new age black maid, blood-drinking zombie racists and a plot to poison the town with blood cakes, what ensues is a dark comedy that pits the forces of fascism against the redeeming power of true love and home cooking…
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Paljas
Title: Paljas
Character: Hendrik MacDonald
Released: January 23, 1998
Type: Movie
Follows the deterioration of an Afrikaner family isolated and shunned in the small community of Toorwater. Nothing seems to happen. Then a circus train loses its way and comes to rest in Toorwater, and a mysterious clown brings fresh magic to the stagnating family, but he also poses a threat to the rest of the community.
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The White Lioness
Title: The White Lioness
Released: November 1, 1996
Type: Movie
In Cape Town, a police inspector named September color discovers that the dreaded Mabasha, hired murderer, is in talks with a right-wing organization. In Skåne, southwest of Sweden, is given to the real estate agent Louise Åkerblom by missing and the case is assigned to Inspector Wallander. Just start research supposedly empty building explodes. An unusual weapon, a transmitter Russian and index finger of a man of color are found in the wreckage of the building ...
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Title: The Adventures of Sinbad
Released: September 28, 1996
Type: TV
The Adventures of Sinbad is a Canadian television series which aired from 1996 to 1998. It follows on the story from the pilot of the same name, and revolves around the series' protagonist, Sinbad. The series is a re-telling of the adventures of Sinbad from The Arabian Nights.
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Bopha!
Title: Bopha!
Character: Van Tonder
Released: September 16, 1993
Type: Movie
In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid movement, he finds himself torn between his family and what he believes is his duty.
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Friends
Title: Friends
Character: Johan
Released: May 26, 1993
Type: Movie
The beginning of the end of the apartheid era in South Africa is seen through the perspectives of three female friends: Sophie, who is of English descent; Aninka, who is an Afrikaner; and Thoko, who is black.
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The Power of One
Title: The Power of One
Character: Prof. Daniel Marais
Released: March 27, 1992
Type: Movie
PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel teaches him how to box with the motto “fight with your fists and lead with your heart”. As he grows to manhood, PK uses these words to take on the system and the injustices he sees around him - and finds that one person really can make a difference.
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Taxi to Soweto
Title: Taxi to Soweto
Character: Horace du Toit
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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Title: Good & Evil
Released: September 25, 1991
Type: TV
Good & Evil is a situation comedy which was broadcast in the United States by ABC from September 25, 1991 until October 30, 1991. The series was created by Susan Harris, and produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions in association with Touchstone Television.
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The Fourth Reich
Title: The Fourth Reich
Character: Jan Taillard
Released: October 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Robey Leibbrandt was a South African boxer who became fascinated with Nazi ideology during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. In1939 he led an operation to overthrow the pro-Allied government of General Jan Smuts.
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Windprints
Title: Windprints
Character: Henning
Released: June 29, 1990
Type: Movie
A South African journalist is sent to Namibia to investigate a serial killer.
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Jewel of the Gods
Title: Jewel of the Gods
Character: Snowy Grinder
Released: June 18, 1989
Type: Movie
While doing field work in Australia’s Gibson Desert, Snowy Grinder meets up with a weirdo named Archie. Together they set off to find the missing Dr. Jim Hartwell and Monomotapa, the Palace of Purple Diamonds...but they haven't accounted for the Gods.
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Happy Together
Title: Happy Together
Character: Denny Dollenbacher
Released: May 4, 1989
Type: Movie
Christopher is an ambitious college freshman, striving to become a writer. Through a computer fault he's assigned the same room as Alex, a real party freak and... a girl! He's annoyed and tries to get a different room as soon as possible, but when he learns to know her, he also starts to like her. She not only improves his sexual life, but also his writing skills
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Farewell to the King
Title: Farewell to the King
Character: Sgt. Conklin
Released: March 3, 1989
Type: Movie
An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.
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DeepStar Six
Title: DeepStar Six
Character: John Van Gelder
Released: January 13, 1989
Type: Movie
The crew of an experimental underwater nuclear base are forced to struggle for their lives when their explorations disturb a creature who threatens to destroy their base.
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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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The Mantis Project
Title: The Mantis Project
Character: Alec Baartman
Released: July 9, 1987
Type: Movie
A Test Group Travels to The Kalahari Desert
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Torn Allegiance
Title: Torn Allegiance
Released: October 21, 1986
Type: Movie
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Title: Designing Women
Released: September 29, 1986
Type: TV
Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.
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Title: The Golden Girls
Character: Derek
Released: September 14, 1985
Type: TV
Four Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Bright, promiscuous, clueless and hilarious, these lovely, mismatched ladies form the perfect circle of friends.
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The Leopard
Title: The Leopard
Character: Nicolas / Nick Denver
Released: March 14, 1984
Type: Movie
A former secret agent, who retired and wrote a first novel which tells the eventful adventures of his hero "Le Léopard ", comes back to work, reluctantly helped by an old maid.
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Anna Meintjies
Title: Anna Meintjies
Released: March 21, 1983
Type: Movie
South African TV Movie
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Gandhi
Title: Gandhi
Character: Conductor
Released: December 1, 1982
Type: Movie
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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The Gods Must Be Crazy
Title: The Gods Must Be Crazy
Character: Andrew Steyn
Released: September 10, 1980
Type: Movie
A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.
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Target of an Assassin
Title: Target of an Assassin
Character: Colonel Albert Pahler
Released: December 10, 1977
Type: Movie
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The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais
Title: The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais
Character: Dr. A.G. Visser
Released: September 25, 1977
Type: Movie
An episode in the Life of Eugène Marais
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Mister Deathman
Title: Mister Deathman
Character: Agent Donelly
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Geoffrey Graves is a secret agent who comes ourt of retirement for a mission in South Africa. Stella Stevens stars as an enemy agent.
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Daar Kom Tant Alie
Title: Daar Kom Tant Alie
Character: Jansonius Groeneweg
Released: February 16, 1976
Type: Movie
Based on the famous radio story of Mike Heine. Tant Alie, who can't handle being alone on the farm, decides to go stay with her daughter in town, with hilarious results.
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...und die Nacht kennt kein Erbarmen
Title: ...und die Nacht kennt kein Erbarmen
Character: Clark Burton
Released: September 23, 1974
Type: Movie
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Ongewenste Vreemdeling
Title: Ongewenste Vreemdeling
Character: Gerhard Steenberg
Released: May 20, 1974
Type: Movie
Gerhard Steenberg is a murderer on parole. He travels to Duiwelsvallei, a place where even the devil must tread lightly. He becomes entangled in the peculiar lives of the Duiwelsvallei's people. Initially, things go well, but then murder, jealousy, blood feuds, and betrayal rear their heads. Gerhard becomes ensnared in a love triangle. Not even his girlfriend's suicide can drive the unwanted stranger out of the valley. Only blood, his own, that of his ex-wife, and his best friend Bergsma's, will allow him to leave Duiwelsvallei.
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Deadly Jaws
Title: Deadly Jaws
Character: René Chagrin
Released: March 15, 1974
Type: Movie
Two divers find a treasure map, which apparently points to a sunken treasure below the ocean. They hire a professional to help them get the gold but this guy turns out to have a few secrets of his own.
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Bait
Title: Bait
Character: Dr. Stanley Martin
Released: January 30, 1974
Type: Movie
A murderer has strangled four pretty girls. Joan Nichols and her police officer fiancé come to the conclusion that the wrong man has been imprisoned for the crime. Joan’s cousin Carla is a medium. In a vision she sees the face of the real killer, the face of someone they know.
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Siener in die Suburbs
Title: Siener in die Suburbs
Character: Jake
Released: March 22, 1973
Type: Movie
Tjokkie, his mother and sister Tiemie live together on poverty row. Tjokkie has a gift of psychic ability and is prone to terrifying trance states which allow him to see the future.His mother's husband, a lay-about called Giel Swart (Yellow Black?) is sponging off his mother's war pension. He sees her children Tjokkie and Tiemie as his own because he has seen them "grow up before his eyes".The aggressive biker Jakes, a man who has built a dangerous reputation around the suburbs is Tiemie's new boyfriend. This Friday night he's visiting their house and drinking heavily with the constantly brow-beaten Giel.Tiemie announces that she's pregnant and not sure if Jakes is the father. Giel in complete financial devastation has laid the last of his money on a 'lucky horse'"
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The Bank Robber
Title: The Bank Robber
Released: March 12, 1973
Type: Movie
The son of a banker decides to steal money from the bank to double it through gambling and then returning it. Unfortunately for him, he is being watched as he succeeds, and interesting events and twists follow.
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Liebesnächte in der Taiga
Title: Liebesnächte in der Taiga
Character: Markjoff
Released: October 4, 1967
Type: Movie
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Title: Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond
Character: Pine Pienaar
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Onder Draai die Duiwel Rond is a South African television drama series created and written by Chris Barnard and produced by Sonneblom Films about beautiful people, good wine and respectable neighbours living on the banks of the Hartebeespoort Dam with lives that are seemingly idyllically peaceful and romantic, but which harbour deep secrets just beneath the surface of the facade.