Martin Le Maitre

Acting

Martin Le Maitre

Born

1960-05-06 (66)

Place of birth

Zimbabwe

Known for

Acting

Credits

17 titles

Martin Le Maitre is a Zimbabwean-born South African actor best known for his leading television roles as Billy Dwyer in the sitcom Suburban Bliss and as the hard bitten journalist Ivan Ferris in the SABC3 drama series Hard Copy.

Known for

Black Sails poster
7.6

The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver. Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.

Black Sails

2014

Hard Copy poster
NR

A struggling tabloid finds new direction when a crime reporter takes the helm and pivots writers back to bold investigative journalism.

Hard Copy

2005

The Devil's Whore poster
6.8

The Devil's Whore is a four-part television drama serial produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, broadcast from 19 November to 10 December 2008. As the English Civil War rages, when both politics and religion divide the nation, spirited aristocrat Angelica Fanshawe is drawn to the anti-monarchist cause. She tells the story as England dares to execute its king and search for an alternative means of government.

The Devil's Whore

2008

Housekeepers poster
NR

When nurse June is framed for killing her patient, her daughter, Linda, leaves her law career to exonerate her mother.

Housekeepers

2018

Sniper: Reloaded poster
5.8

Marine Sgt. Brandon Beckett, son of the U.S. Marine Corps' deadliest sniper, Thomas Beckett, must turn to his father's former protégé (Billy Zane) to track down and kill a mysterious sniper before he kills his next target.

Sniper: Reloaded

2011

Goodbye Bafana poster
6.9

The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.

Goodbye Bafana

2007

Film credits

2000s · 5 titles

Goodbye Bafana poster
6.9

The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.

Goodbye Bafana

2007

The Three Investigators in The Secret of Terror Castle poster
6.3

A new case for the cult detectives! Not by coincidence, a mysterious videotape falls into the hands of Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw and Bob Andrews during Jupiter's birthday party in Rocky Beach. On it is a recording of Jupiter's long dead parents. In their message they want to communicate to their son the key to an especially tricky riddle.

The Three Investigators in The Secret of Terror Castle

2009

The Sorcerer's Apprentice poster
4.4

Every hundred years, the evil sorceress Morgana returns to claim Fingall's talisman from Merlin, with which she intends to destroy the world. For the last fourteen hundred years she has failed... now she intends to conquer all. Young Ben Clark moves with his parents to a new town, where he befriends his elderly magician neighbor, Milner. Ben has a natural talent for magic and wants to learn all that he can from this old man. Ben carries the same scar as the original staff-bearer 1,400 years before. Both Morgana and Milner, who is revealed to be Merlin, see this as a sign that this time, the battle between good and evil will be stronger and harder than ever. Ben must make his own choice between good and evil as he is drawn into a battle and must draw on his own spirit and magic to decide which path to follow and hence, the fate of the world as we know it.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

2002

Berserker: Hell's Warrior poster
3.3

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.

Berserker: Hell's Warrior

2004

Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea poster
6.3

The story of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 after she was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The story is told from the perspective of Prof. Holbourn (a passenger), the German U-boat and its captain and crew, and other passengers, crew and Admiralty staff

Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea

2007

1990s · 5 titles

Oh Schucks...! Here Comes UNTAG poster
6.0

Kwagga Robertse owns a farm shop in the fictional Southern African country of Nambabwe and usually cons foreign tourists by pretending to kill a lion, thus earning him the nickname 'Urumbo' (Lion Killer) from the country's natives. Kwagga is upset when the UN sends a platoon of incompetent soldiers with the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (U.N.T.A.G.), to monitor the peace process, and ensure free and fair elections after the Nambabwean War for Independence. The U.N.T.A.G's American leader, Major Bradick D. Mackay and his second-in-command, Captain Zapman are offered a diamond worth a lot of money in the U.S., and they must pay 200,000 USD to Duan Robertse, Kwagga's competitive brother trying to buy a farm left to them by their dead father.

Oh Schucks...! Here Comes UNTAG

1990

Time poster
6.4

Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local white landowner in which her father is killed. She settles in Abidjan, where, ten years later, she has become a university student. As part of her studies, she visits the Taureg tribe on the edge of the Sahara before at last returning to post-Apartheid South Africa.

Time

1995

To the Death poster
4.1

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.

To the Death

1992

Hearts & Minds poster
7.0

In the final days of the pro-apartheid government, bigoted policeman and assassin Andries Fourie is assigned an undercover job. His task is to pose as a political progressive to infiltrate the African National Congress and assassinate one of the party’s leaders.

Hearts & Minds

1995

Dark Desires: Thelma poster
3.3

In South Africa, Vincent has spent 5 years in jail for having unintentionally killed a man. Now, he just wants to forget it, finds a job in a garage and starts a relationship with his boss's daughter, Agnes. Not far away, his ex-girlfriend, now married to a rich man, tries to seduce him again. As he resists, she murders her husband and tries to put the blame on Vincent.

Dark Desires: Thelma

1994

Series credits

Black Sails poster
7.6

The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver. Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.

Black Sails

2014

Hard Copy poster
NR

A struggling tabloid finds new direction when a crime reporter takes the helm and pivots writers back to bold investigative journalism.

Hard Copy

2005

The Devil's Whore poster
6.8

The Devil's Whore is a four-part television drama serial produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, broadcast from 19 November to 10 December 2008. As the English Civil War rages, when both politics and religion divide the nation, spirited aristocrat Angelica Fanshawe is drawn to the anti-monarchist cause. She tells the story as England dares to execute its king and search for an alternative means of government.

The Devil's Whore

2008

Housekeepers poster
NR

When nurse June is framed for killing her patient, her daughter, Linda, leaves her law career to exonerate her mother.

Housekeepers

2018

Daisy de Melker poster
9.0

The infamous poisoner, Daisy Louisa de Melker (née Hancorn-Smith) was born on 1 July 1886 near Grahamstown. Daisy was charged with the murder of her two previous husbands and her son. Her trial began in October 1932 before Judge Greenberg in Johannesburg. Daisy was not found guilty of the murder of her two previous husbands, but she was found guilty of the murder of her son. On 30 December 1932, Daisy was hanged in Pretoria Central Prison, without ever pleading guilty or showing any remorse. Daisy was the second woman in South Africa to be hanged.

Daisy de Melker

1993