Acting

Gordon Van Rooyen

Acting credits

Skin poster
6.4

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

Skin

2009

After the Rain poster
5.3

Steph, an Afrikaner, struggles with his past and heritage in the new South Africa. When his girlfriend befriends a black South African man called Vusisizwe, trouble brews.

After the Rain

1999

The Chimes poster
7.0

A claymation adaptation of "The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In". The Chimes was a short novel by Charles Dickens which was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books": five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s.

The Chimes

1999

Mandela and de Klerk poster
7.0

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.

Mandela and de Klerk

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

The Visual Bible: Matthew poster
8.8

The only dramatization using the actual scriptures...word for word from the New International Version (NIV). In Israel, then known as Judea of the Roman Empire, Nazarene Jesus Christ travels around the country with His disciples preaching to the people about God and salvation of their souls.

The Visual Bible: Matthew

1993

The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy poster
4.5

Laurel and Hardy are in Florida where they meet archeologist Henry Covington, whose daughter they try to protect from the wrath of a mummy.

The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy

1999

Deadly Jaws poster
7.4

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.

Deadly Jaws

1974

The First Christmas poster
6.7

The story of the birth of Christ brought to life in this claymation short film.

The First Christmas

1998

Michael the Visitor poster
8.0

Stockard Channing narrates this inspiring story adapted from Leo Tolstoy's tale "Truths We Live By." Simon the shoemaker barely makes enough to get by, but that doesn't stop the kind cobbler from taking in a needy homeless man named Michael. Simon provides Michael with food, shelter and a job as his assistant. Mysteries unfold, relationships strengthen and new purpose is found as Simon slowly unravels the details of Michael's life.

Michael the Visitor

1995