Tertius Meintjes

Tertius Meintjes

Performed in the Afrikaans production of Equus (as “Alan Strang”), late 1970s. Other stage productions include Sing jy van Bomme (PACT 1988), Paulus (KKNK 2007). He wrote the stage play Dis Seker die Honde and the television screenplay The Pink Leather Chair. On television he played one of the lead roles in Plek van die Vleisvreters, had a lead role in Isidingo and played in numerous other productions.

Movies for Tertius Meintjes...

An Elephant's Journey
Title: An Elephant's Journey
Character: Uncle Jack
Released: April 16, 2018
Type: Movie
A lost orphan boy and a giant elephant team up to take down an elephant poaching syndicate.
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Hunting Emma
Title: Hunting Emma
Character: Jacques Le Roux
Released: June 12, 2017
Type: Movie
Emma le Roux just wants to go home for the holidays. Gentle, beautiful, pacifist Emma. She's made the trip to her father's farm a thousand times. Piece of cake. But not today. Today she will cross paths with members of a violent drug syndicate. Everything starts falling apart, and fast. At first they were driven by hate and revenge. Suddenly, it's survival.
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Title: Die Byl
Character: Generaal Neels van As
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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Die Ontwaking
Title: Die Ontwaking
Character: Dr. Koster
Released: February 26, 2016
Type: Movie
Abel is preparing for a special gift to himself on his 50th Birthday. He wants to find himself a new face, that of a beautiful young woman. Ella Nesser is the attractive, but inexperienced murder detective, in charge of the case to track down the serial killer who has been praying on the city's young woman. When Abel develops an obsession with not only her face, but also her tattooed skin - the Hunter becomes the Hunted.
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The Lost Future
Title: The Lost Future
Character: Uri
Released: November 13, 2010
Type: Movie
A group of post-apocalyptic survivors, struggle to survive in a world where jungles and forests and primeval wetlands and deserts have obliterated civilization. They staunchly face genetically mutating beasts and mysterious diseases in an attempt to re-establish the human race as masters of Earth.
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Die Ongelooflike Avonture van Hanna Hoekom
Title: Die Ongelooflike Avonture van Hanna Hoekom
Character: Gavin
Released: August 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Based on the favourite Afrikaans children's novel, Hanna is 14 going on 15 and is part of a rather unconventional family. They go on holiday to the Cederberg for a family reunion, which leads to plenty of surprises and reconciliation. Hanna is an intelligent and imaginative young girl who's earned herself the nickname "Hoekom," because she's forever questioning things. When her eccentric mother decides that the family – including her gay biological dad, actor stepfather, detestable half-brother and two stepbrothers – should spend their winter holiday in a remote house on a mountain, they end up stranded with nowhere to go and no-one to turn to except each other.
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The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
Title: The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
Character: Rogan
Released: September 9, 2006
Type: Movie
After retrieving the Crystal Skull in Utah, Flynn Carsen receives a map in the mail with the secret location of King Solomon's Mines. When the scroll is stolen, Judson explains the power of the Key of Solomon's book and assigns Flynn to retrieve the map. The map is useless without the legend piece to decipher it, which is located in Volubilis near the Roman ruins in Morocco. Flynn heads to Casablanca to the ruins where he is chased by a group of mercenaries leaded by General Samir. They too want to find the location of King Solomon's mines. Flynn teams-up with Professor Emily Davenport working in the dig and they escape from General Samir and his men. While traveling to Gedi, they save the local Jomo from death and the trio faces a dangerous journey through the wild Africa.
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Title: Begeertes
Character: Hugo Wessels
Released: February 1, 2006
Type: TV
An Afrikaans series about the love intrigues and life dramas of a group of people in East London.
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Title: Binnelanders
Character: Buks
Released: October 13, 2005
Type: TV
A South African Afrikaans soap opera. It is set in and around the fictional private hospital, Binneland Kliniek, in Pretoria, and the storyline follows the trials, trauma and tribulations of the staff and patients of the hospital.
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Berserker: Hell's Warrior
Title: Berserker: Hell's Warrior
Character: Father
Released: May 11, 2004
Type: Movie
Kari Wührer stars as a witch, who turns the king's son Barek into an immortal berserker. The enmity between Barek and the witch extends to the present day in his attempts to become mortal again and break Odin's curse.
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Title: Plek van die Vleisvreters
Character: Frans du Toit
Released: April 15, 2004
Type: TV
A South African Afrikaans-language television drama series produced by Spectro Productions in association with M-Net Original Productions in which a murder mystery unravels on a game farm against the backdrop of sibling rivalries and revenge.
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Mandela and de Klerk
Title: Mandela and de Klerk
Character: Kykendal
Released: February 16, 1997
Type: Movie
Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid.
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Friends
Title: Friends
Character: Jeremy
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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Sarafina!
Title: Sarafina!
Character: Lieutenant Bloem
Released: September 18, 1992
Type: Movie
The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.
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To the Death
Title: To the Death
Character: TV Evangelist
Released: July 23, 1992
Type: Movie
Kickboxing champ Rick Quinn decides to retire from the ring, but his main adversary, Denard, wants him to fight again and murders Quinn's wife. Quinn suspects Denard, but can't do anything. Three month later, Quinn is jailed after a drunken bar brawl; a rich man named Le Braque bails him out and asks him to fight for him.
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The Fourth Reich
Title: The Fourth Reich
Character: Doors Erasmus
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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Agter elke man
Title: Agter elke man
Character: Joyboy du Toit
Released: September 28, 1990
Type: Movie
A concluding movie to the Afrikaans television series that ran for two seasons, this movie focuses mainly on Bruce Beyers after he is released from jail (2 years after the second season ended). Many main characters from the TV series did not return for the movie. The movie also features Steve Hofmeyer's song, "Agter Elke Man", which he wrote for the movie.
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Jobman
Title: Jobman
Released: September 12, 1989
Type: Movie
Smith, the deaf and dumb son of a rural coloured preacher, refuses to accept the menial labour on offer in the small farming community where he’s grown up. He tries to earn a living in the city, but this ends in assault, and his return home sparks off a cycle of vengeful violence.
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Title: Wasted Spring
Character: Gert Greyling
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: TV
Pop le Roux is a beautiful, but relatively uneducated, boer girl from a poor family. The young men of the county all compete with each other to win her favor. The man she loves is Manie Cronjé, He is just as poor and Pop sees no chance of suffering further. She eventually marries Jan Greyling, the rich widower. Gradually she adapts to her new life and becomes a good wife for Jan.
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Blink Stefaans
Title: Blink Stefaans
Character: Barry
Released: June 22, 1981
Type: Movie
Fanus is a nerdy sound technician who is never noticed by anyone, and especially not by the boss’s pretty but temperamental daughter, Linda. All this changes with the arrival of alter ego 'Blink Stefaans', who has plenty of advice for Fanus, from how to be more assertive to how to dress. 'Blink' translates to bright or shiny. Suddenly Fanus life changes into a roller-coaster ride of ups and downs. Blink Stefaans, in this gentle romantic comedy.