Grant Swanby

Grant Swanby

Born: July 25, 1967
in Durban, South Africa

Movies for Grant Swanby...

Title: Invasion
Character: General Mitchell
Released: October 21, 2021
Type: TV
Earth is visited by an alien species that threatens humanity's existence. Events unfold in real time through the eyes of five ordinary people across the globe as they struggle to make sense of the chaos unraveling around them.
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Fried Barry
Title: Fried Barry
Character: Doctor
Released: March 6, 2020
Type: Movie
Barry is a drug-addled, abusive bastard who - after yet another bender - is abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as an alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town. What follows is an onslaught of drugs, sex, and violence as our alien tourist enters the weird and wonderful world of humankind.
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Sulphur & White
Title: Sulphur & White
Character: Koetze
Released: February 28, 2020
Type: Movie
David is a successful city trader in London who is relentlessly focused on work. Beneath the confident facade, he is trapped by memories of the past and hostile to anyone who dares to help. Flashbacks reveal a childhood in South Africa at the mercy of an inadequate bully of a father Donald and an ineffectual mother Joanne. The physical and sexual abuse he suffered threatens any chance of happiness he might have now.
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Title: Projek Dina
Character: Robert du Preez
Released: January 14, 2020
Type: TV
A south African series that takes place in the work and life environment of the emergency response task force, where the pressure is sky high and the room for error is tiny. Now that the task force has just been set up by the Western Cape police - as a way to combat the rapidly increasing cases of missing persons in South Africa - the members of the task force have a seemingly impossible task at hand: to find the missing persons in Cape Town and bring them home one by one.
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Cut-Out Girls
Title: Cut-Out Girls
Character: Leigh’s dad
Released: October 17, 2018
Type: Movie
Kevin and Mike are young men trying to get ahead in the competitive world of tennis. When one of them discovers a dangerous key that can unlock their potential, things get out of hand. Their worlds become intertwined and spiral out of control. A small series of seemingly insignificant moments weave together with devastating consequences.
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The Recce
Title: The Recce
Character: Captain Le Roux
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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Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story
Title: Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story
Character: Pastor Abrahams
Released: September 7, 2018
Type: Movie
Based on true events, the film tells a story of the damaged relationship between a woman and her son, who is addicted to drug abuse. It also narrates the itenary of events that led to the murder of her son, as well as the legal process that followed afterwards.
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Title: The Last Post
Character: SAS Commanding Officer
Released: October 1, 2017
Type: TV
Drama series set in the mid-sixties, in which a unit of Royal Military Police officers and their families deal with the challenges of politics, love and war in British-controlled Aden.
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Finders Keepers
Title: Finders Keepers
Character: Kiril
Released: August 18, 2017
Type: Movie
Lonnie and Brian go on the run from the Cape Town underworld, after finding a box filled with cash and a valuable wrist watch. They steal a lucky fish that they use to barter with the gangsters.
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Beyond the River
Title: Beyond the River
Character: Steve
Released: April 28, 2017
Type: Movie
Inspired by the true story of Siseko Ntondini and Piers Cruickshanks, who together won gold in the 2014 Dusi, Beyond the River delivers a nail-biting adventure story about the triumph of the human spirit.
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Title: Ice
Character: Antwerp Board Member
Released: November 16, 2016
Type: TV
A diamond dealer navigates the culturally diverse and treacherous world of the diamond business.
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Title: Die Byl
Character: Carel Massyn
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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Blood and Glory
Title: Blood and Glory
Character: Colonel Swannell
Released: April 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Set in 1901, this period epic follows Willem Morkel, a Boer family man whose wife and son are murdered during the Anglo-Boer War. Captured as a prisoner of war, Willem must survive incarceration in the notorious St. Helena concentration camp and defeat the ruthless Colonel Swannell, at his own game—Rugby
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Shark Killer
Title: Shark Killer
Character: Diggler
Released: March 23, 2015
Type: Movie
The services of shark killer have been engaged by his brother Jake, the head of a West Coast crime ring. The gig: kill the black-finned shark that swallowed a valuable diamond during a gang transaction.
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Spud 3: Learning to Fly
Title: Spud 3: Learning to Fly
Character: Frank
Released: December 16, 2014
Type: Movie
As Spud Milton continues his awkward stagger through adolescence, he learns one of life's most important lessons: When dealing with women and cretins, nothing is ever quite as it seems. "I'm practically a man in most areas," writes Spud confidently on his sixteenth birthday. The year is 1992 and, in South Africa, radical change is in the air. The country may be on the bumpy road to an uncertain future, but Spud Milton is hoping for a smooth ride as he returns to boarding school as a senior. Instead, he discovers that his vindictive arch enemy is back to taunt him and that a garrulous Malawian has taken residence in his dormitory, along with the regular inmates and misfits he calls friends. Spud's world has never seemed less certain; he attempts to master Shakespeare, wrestles constantly with his God, and the power of negative thinking, and develops an aversion to fried fish after a shocking discovery about his grandmother, Wombat.
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The Salvation
Title: The Salvation
Character: Joe No Leg
Released: May 22, 2014
Type: Movie
In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.
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Copposites
Title: Copposites
Character: Captain Kruger
Released: October 9, 2012
Type: Movie
A cop and a crook are exposed to a DNA altering formula that switches them into each other's bodies and forces them to work together in order to switch back.
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Taste of Rain
Title: Taste of Rain
Character: Tomas
Released: July 24, 2012
Type: Movie
Rachel struggles to survive a drought that has hit her farm and her life. A water-diviner brings dramatic changes to her life. She is confronted with a desert deep within herself and discovers a way to survive.
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Jail Caesar
Title: Jail Caesar
Released: June 28, 2012
Type: Movie
The early life of Roman ruler Julius Caesar as told in three working prisons in South Africa, the UK and Canada. A small group of professional actors is joined by a cast of real-life inmates to tell the story of one of history's foremost personalities.
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Skeem
Title: Skeem
Character: Drikus
Released: October 27, 2011
Type: Movie
South African crime/comedy movie. Forced to spend the night at a creepy old holiday resort, two wannabe gangsters run into trouble when, unpacking the car, their box of cash splits open, spilling a million bucks in eye-catching bundles all over the driveway
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Title: Women in Love
Character: Wolfgang Loerke
Released: March 24, 2011
Type: TV
Powerful adaptation of DH Lawrence's novels The Rainbow and Women in Love, focusing on the lives of two sisters as they struggle with love, passion and commitment in the build-up to WWI.
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Black Butterflies
Title: Black Butterflies
Character: Jan Rabie
Released: February 6, 2011
Type: Movie
Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of Censorship, Ingrid Jonker searched for a home, searched for love. With men like Jack Cope and André Brink she found much love, but no home. Later, in his first speech to the South African Parliament Nelson Mandela read her poem "The Dead Child of Nyanga" and addressed her as one of the finest poets of South Africa.
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Title: The Sinking of the Laconia
Character: Colonel Ronin
Released: January 6, 2011
Type: TV
The true story of the Allied ship Laconia, sunk in WWII by a German U-Boat, which then surfaced against orders to rescue the civilian crew
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Invictus
Title: Invictus
Character: Co-Captain of 747
Released: December 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.
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White Wedding
Title: White Wedding
Character: Slang
Released: April 29, 2009
Type: Movie
A young groom and his best man lost on the road trip to the wedding, run into a young English doctor. Set against South Africa's breathtaking landscapes, White Wedding is a high-spirited modern-day road comedy about love, commitment, intimacy, friendship, and the unbelievable obstacles that can get in the way of a fairy-tale ending.
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Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
Title: Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
Character: Barkeeper
Released: July 19, 2008
Type: Movie
The war against the Bugs continues! A Federation Starship crash-lands on the distant Alien planet OM-1, stranding beloved leader Sky Marshal Anoke and several others, including comely but tough pilot Lola Beck. It's up to Colonel/General Johnny Rico, reluctant hero of the original Bug Invasion on Planet P, to lead a team of Troopers on a daring rescue mission.
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Deadly Harvest
Title: Deadly Harvest
Character: Dr. Geyer
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: UNCHR Official
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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The Fall
Title: The Fall
Character: Father Augustine
Released: September 9, 2006
Type: Movie
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
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Slipstream
Title: Slipstream
Character: Tokin
Released: February 3, 2005
Type: Movie
A scientist plots a bank robbery based around his newest invention -- a time travel gadget that will send its user 10 minutes into the past. Everything goes according to plan, until he encounters a group of thieves who've planned their heist for the same day.
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Ring of the Nibelungs
Title: Ring of the Nibelungs
Released: November 19, 2004
Type: Movie
In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried after two malevolent kings murder his father. But a fiery meteor sent by the gods reveals Siegfried's destiny, sending him on the quest of a lifetime. To save a crumbling kingdom claim the heart of his true love, he'll have to slay the nefarious dragon, Fafnir.
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Dracula 3000
Title: Dracula 3000
Character: Arthur "The Professor" Holmwood
Released: August 9, 2004
Type: Movie
In the year 3000, the deep space salvage ship Mother III locates the vanished starship Demeter in the Carpathian System. Captain Abraham Van Helsing and his crew composed of the blonde assistant Aurora Ash; the crippled navigator Arthur "The Professor" Holmwood, who believes that he is a genius; the strong and dumb Humvee; the intern Mina Murry; and the drug addicted 187, decide to claim the possession of Demeter. While exploring the spacecraft, they see a tape of fifty years ago of Captain Varna telling that he was locked in his cabin since his crew was acting weird after getting a cargo of coffins in Transylvania station. When 187 decides to search in the coffins for some possible hidden dope, he cuts his hand and his blood awakes Count Orlock, a.k.a. Count Dracula. When Aurora discloses who Dracula is, the survivors try to find a way to destroy the vampire.
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Critical Assignment
Title: Critical Assignment
Character: Jon Marshall
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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Proteus
Title: Proteus
Character: Willer
Released: September 7, 2003
Type: Movie
An exquisite period piece that skillfully explores the intersections of sex, race and politics takes place in 18th century South Africa, telling the passionate (true) story of two men caught in an unjust system rife with racism, homophobia and cruelty.
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Consequence
Title: Consequence
Character: Doc
Released: July 11, 2003
Type: Movie
A man does an identity switch to collect insurance money but finds himself in danger.
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Pavement
Title: Pavement
Character: Ted Hansen
Released: December 13, 2002
Type: Movie
Samuel Browne is a tracker in Alaska. When his sister meets a grisly death in San Francisco, he goes there to hunt her killer. As more murders occur, police investigator Buckley Clarke reluctantly joins forces with Sam. The brass are convinced this is a serial killer choosing victims at random, but Sam and Buckley discover a pattern involving health personnel who work in neonatal intensive care. Doctors aren't supposed to play god, but someone's decision years before has driven a killer over the brink. Can they find him?
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Sweepers
Title: Sweepers
Released: December 2, 1998
Type: Movie
Dolph Lundgren is Christian Erickson, a leading demolition expert trained to disarm mine fields in a humanitarian minesweeping operation in Angola. His son is killed and he discovers that mines are being planted during the war to kill people in the area.
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Tarzan and the Lost City
Title: Tarzan and the Lost City
Character: Douglas
Released: April 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Tarzan returns to his homeland of Africa to save his home from destruction.