Acting

Frantz Dobrowsky

Born 1947-05-31

Frantz Dobrowsky (31 May 1947 - 18 Jan 2006) was a South African actor best known for his role as Jack Paddaman in the Leon Schuster comedy film Panic Mechanic in 1997. He was also well known for an extensive theatre repertoire, particularly in Durban. On 18 January 2006, Dobrowsky shot himself shortly after his home was repossessed. He was 58.

Acting credits

American Ninja 4: The Annihilation poster
5.3

The two American Ninjas, Joe Armstrong and Sean Davidson, team up to do battle against a terrorist and his band of Ninjas.

American Ninja 4: The Annihilation

1990

Operation Delta Force poster
3.8

A team of military experts and scientists go after a terrorist group that has seized a deadly virus and is threatening to release it.

Operation Delta Force

1997

Dirty Games poster
5.0

The beautiful daughter of a murdered scientist determines to apprehend her father's brutal killer at a nuclear waste site they're both inspecting as part of a team of international delegates. But the visiting scientists soon realize that ruthless terrorists intend to blow up the complex.

Dirty Games

1989

Panic Mechanic poster
5.7

When Hanky Pranky (alias Schucks), star of a candid camera TV show, loses his job to affirmative action, he applies for a job at a stress academy. It´s not long before Schucks discovers his new boss, Jack Paddaman, is as crooked as they come, but it´s too late: the employment contract is signed and sealed.A year passes, and Schucks is no better off. However, his candid camera videos, which poke fun at all sectors of post-1994 South Africa, prove a big hit with stressed-out government ministers. When the president asks Paddaman to make a movie to benefit street children, Schucks and his pals do all the hard work while Paddaman plans how he can get hold of the profits from the video sales. Add a scatterbrained secretary, a lovelorn traffic cop and a cunning street child and you have a roll-in-the aisles comedy with a distinctly South African flavour.

Panic Mechanic

1996

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8.0

A young woman called Amy, without scruple or taboo, embarks upon a career of robbery and murder, eventually taking up with the family of an upper middle class man and briefly leading a provincial life. Because she has nothing to lose, Amy is desperate to gain money and power. If men are susceptible to her charms, women must be even more wary of her diabolic schemes. For love or money there is no mercy for women.

Dark Desires: A Taste for Murder

1997

Black Velvet Band poster
7.7

Period drama Black Velvet Band takes us back to Victorian times when a gang of petty crooks find themselves sentenced to transportation to Australia, their ship, however, docks in South Africa and the gang manage to make their escape. The film starred Nick Berry, Chris McHallem and Todd Carty, who had all previously appeared in EastEnders together. The initial idea came from McHallem, whilst Nick Berry, thanks to being the darling of ITV at the time because of his hit show Heartbeat, had the clout to get it made.

Black Velvet Band

1997

The Visual Bible: Acts poster
7.3

The Visual Bible: Acts is a 1994 film that depicts the events of Book of Acts from the Bible's New Testament. All of the dialogue is word-for-word Scripture, taken directly from the New International Version of the Bible.

The Visual Bible: Acts

1994

Live Wire: Human Timebomb poster
5.4

A computer chip turns an FBI agent into a lethal weapon.

Live Wire: Human Timebomb

1996

The Stick poster
7.0

A squad (stick) of South African soldiers is sent into the bush to track down some rebel fighters when things take a supernatural turn.

The Stick

1988

The Native Who Caused All the Trouble poster
8.0

True story of a man who believes God owns the earth and land cannot be owned by anyone, therefore he's at liberty to build his church on ground occupied by others.

The Native Who Caused All the Trouble

1990