Marius Weyers

Acting

Marius Weyers

Born

1945-02-03 (81)

Place of birth

Johannesburg, South Africa

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Known for

7de Laan poster
8.3

7de Laan is an extraordinary microcosm where good and bad, evil and wholesome characters find themselves forming part of a wholesome community where no matter what – everyone counts and everyone cares…

7de Laan

2000

The Golden Girls poster
7.6

Four Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Bright, promiscuous, clueless and hilarious, these lovely, mismatched ladies form the perfect circle of friends.

The Golden Girls

1985

Blood Diamond poster
7.6

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.

Blood Diamond

2006

Designing Women poster
6.8

Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.

Designing Women

1986

Die Byl poster
8.0

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.

Die Byl

2016

The Gods Must Be Crazy poster
7.3

A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.

The Gods Must Be Crazy

1980

Film credits

2010s · 11 titles

Road to Your Heart poster
6.4

Basson has five days to make it to his father's funeral in Cape Town, but needs to complete certain tasks on this trip before he can call the family company his own. On the road he meets free-spirited bohemian girl, Amory. As they journey across the breathtaking landscape of South Africa, they meet wonderful characters that allow for hilarious moments and life-changing experiences. Their trip takes a sudden turn for the worst when a villainous figure makes an appearance. Basson and Amory are faced with disappointment and heartache. On the road called life, it is inevitable that you will take some wrong turns. But no matter how hard the road might be, on route to true love is where you will find your true north.

Road to Your Heart

2014

The Recce poster
3.2

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.

The Recce

2018

Two Degrees of Murder poster
6.0

An Afrikaans film. Two women, two murders. One homicide reflects the ultimate act of self-centredness, the other the greatest selfless act of them all.

Two Degrees of Murder

2016

The Story of Racheltjie De Beer poster
8.5

South African wilderness 1800's. Five years after their mother died, Rachel, a girl on the cusp of adolescence and 5-year-old Jamie find themselves on their way to the virgin gold fields with their father, Herman, as he tries to start a new life. When Jamie goes missing in a freak snow blizzard, Rachel braves the storm to look for her little brother.

The Story of Racheltjie De Beer

2019

Dis ek, Anna poster
8.2

Set in modern-day South Africa, it tells the story of Anna Bruwer, who avenges years of abuse suffered at the hands of her stepfather and the court case that ensues.

Dis ek, Anna

2015

Nothing for Mahala poster
NR

Nothing for Mahala is a comedic film that follows Ace (Thapelo Mokoena) into his deep and unpleasant hole of debt and financial woes. Ace who likes to play the part of the high flier is forced to get money from illegal loan sharks, which eventually lands him into some legal trouble. The result is Ace doing community service at an old age home, where much is learnt about finances, life and what really holds value.

Nothing for Mahala

2013

The Miracle Worker poster
6.0

Die Wonderwerker tells the story of Eugène Marais, a famous Afrikaans writer, poet and researcher. The story focuses on the few months he spends on the Van Rooyen's farm, where he falls in love with the 19-year-old Jane Brayshaw.

The Miracle Worker

2012

Chickens can Fly poster
NR

Pieter discovered at a very young age that “the world he found himself in was not a comfortable one”. At around the age of four he decided that this life was not for him so he began creating another world for himself – in pictures. This documentary follows the life path of Pieter van der Westhuizen. It displays his great talent and his extraordinary adaption to a life that was not without challenges - his fascination with Israel, his failed marriages and the influence that his life tragedies had on creating the world that he chose to escape to through his art.

Chickens can Fly

2010

The Last Tango poster
5.0

The story revolves around a 34-year old, workaholic detective who is burnt out, having immersed himself in an investigation involving the ruthless murder of nine girls. He managed to capture the killer, but his emotions get the better of him, possibly jeopardising the trial. His boss sends him away to cool down, and he ends up in a small town in the middle of the Karoo. Here, he meets a passionate and beautiful woman who is dying of cancer. His only goal is to fight boredom until he is allowed to resume his detective duties, while her dying wish is to dance one last tango before her life is over. He reluctantly agrees. Meanwhile the murderer wakes from his sedation and puts his plan for revenge into motion

The Last Tango

2013

Faan's Train poster
6.2

Faan se Trein is about a simple-minded man living in a tiny Karoo community. When his father dies, leaving all his possessions to Faan and the church, greed rears its head and divides the community... Until love restores their sanity.

Faan's Train

2014

Die Seemeeu poster
NR

Christiaan Olwagen (Johnny is nie Dood nie, Kanarie) adapts Anton Chekhov's classic play, The Seagull, to film, and places it in South Africa in the 1990’s, almost one hundred years after it was written.

Die Seemeeu

2019

2000s · 9 titles

Blood Diamond poster
7.6

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.

Blood Diamond

2006

Catch a Fire poster
6.3

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.

Catch a Fire

2006

Stander poster
6.2

The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.

Stander

2003

Consequence poster
5.3

A man does an identity switch to collect insurance money but finds himself in danger.

Consequence

2003

Red Dust poster
5.8

Sarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood dwelling place to intercede for Alex Mpondo, a Black South African politician who was tortured during apartheid.

Red Dust

2004

Pure Blood poster
4.2

Combining a new age black maid, blood-drinking zombie racists and a plot to poison the town with blood cakes, what ensues is a dark comedy that pits the forces of fascism against the redeeming power of true love and home cooking…

Pure Blood

2000

Critical Assignment poster
7.0

The president of an African country decrees that the arms budget will be diverted in to the Water for All project. Journalist Michael Power discovers a coup set by the arms dealers.

Critical Assignment

2004

No artwork available
8.0

Skilpoppe is a gripping look at a South African tragedy, as seen through the eyes of a 17 year old girl. It touches on social issues like suicide, drug addiction and homophobia in a tender and humerous way. The story follows Anna Meyer, a schoolgirl who wins the role of Juliet in her school's production of Romeo and Juliet. She struggles to come to terms with the deeper, darker side of her personality; mostly because she still needs to exercise the demons from a tragedy in her own life.

Skilpoppe

2004

Deadly Harvest poster
5.8

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.

Deadly Harvest

2008

1990s · 8 titles

The Power of One poster
7.5

PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel teaches him how to box with the motto “fight with your fists and lead with your heart”. As he grows to manhood, PK uses these words to take on the system and the injustices he sees around him - and finds that one person really can make a difference.

The Power of One

1992

The White Lioness poster
5.2

In Cape Town, a police inspector named September color discovers that the dreaded Mabasha, hired murderer, is in talks with a right-wing organization. In Skåne, southwest of Sweden, is given to the real estate agent Louise Åkerblom by missing and the case is assigned to Inspector Wallander. Just start research supposedly empty building explodes. An unusual weapon, a transmitter Russian and index finger of a man of color are found in the wreckage of the building ...

The White Lioness

1996

Paljas poster
7.3

Follows the deterioration of an Afrikaner family isolated and shunned in the small community of Toorwater. Nothing seems to happen. Then a circus train loses its way and comes to rest in Toorwater, and a mysterious clown brings fresh magic to the stagnating family, but he also poses a threat to the rest of the community.

Paljas

1998

Bopha! poster
5.4

In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid movement, he finds himself torn between his family and what he believes is his duty.

Bopha!

1993

The Fourth Reich poster
6.0

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.

The Fourth Reich

1990

Friends poster
6.5

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.

Friends

1994

Windprints poster
6.5

A South African journalist is sent to Namibia to investigate a serial killer.

Windprints

1990

Taxi to Soweto poster
NR

A Gentle story with a moral of forgive and forget at the kernel of its’ comedy exterior ~ but also one that accurately foretold the changes that were to sweep across South Africa in 1994, as an uptight suburban Johannesburg housewife (Elize Cawood, with an equally uptight husband played by Marius Weyers) accepts a lift from a Sowetan taxi driver (Patrick Shai) and gets taken into another world entirely

Taxi to Soweto

1991

1980s · 11 titles

The Gods Must Be Crazy poster
7.3

A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.

The Gods Must Be Crazy

1980

Gandhi poster
7.6

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

Gandhi

1982

DeepStar Six poster
5.5

The crew of an experimental underwater nuclear base are forced to struggle for their lives when their explorations disturb a creature who threatens to destroy their base.

DeepStar Six

1989

Farewell to the King poster
6.0

An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.

Farewell to the King

1989

Happy Together poster
5.9

Christopher is an ambitious college freshman, striving to become a writer. Through a computer fault he's assigned the same room as Alex, a real party freak and... a girl! He's annoyed and tries to get a different room as soon as possible, but when he learns to know her, he also starts to like her. She not only improves his sexual life, but also his writing skills

Happy Together

1989

The Leopard poster
6.1

A former secret agent, who retired and wrote a first novel which tells the eventful adventures of his hero "Le Léopard ", comes back to work, reluctantly helped by an old maid.

The Leopard

1984

Jewel of the Gods poster
5.0

While doing field work in Australia’s Gibson Desert, Snowy Grinder meets up with a weirdo named Archie. Together they set off to find the missing Dr. Jim Hartwell and Monomotapa, the Palace of Purple Diamonds...but they haven't accounted for the Gods.

Jewel of the Gods

1989

Torn Allegiance poster
10.0

Piet du Bois is a miner who wants to buy a farm. He meets a Bushman and his wife buying their land and expelling after. The Bushman exposes a legend about a fabulous hidden treasure.

Torn Allegiance

1986

No artwork available
4.0

South African drama set at a roadhouse in Apartheid.

Saturday Night at the Palace

1987

No artwork available
NR

A Test Group Travels to The Kalahari Desert

The Mantis Project

1987

No artwork available
7.0

South African TV Movie

Anna Meintjies

1983

1970s · 11 titles

Target of an Assassin poster
5.1

An ailing African leader is kidnapped by a nurse after being admitted to hospital, and finds himself stuck between two men who have different ideas of what to do with him.

Target of an Assassin

1977

No artwork available
NR

A murderer has strangled four pretty girls. Joan Nichols and her police officer fiancé come to the conclusion that the wrong man has been imprisoned for the crime. Joan’s cousin Carla is a medium. In a vision she sees the face of the real killer, the face of someone they know.

Bait

1974

Mister Deathman poster
4.0

Geoffrey Graves is a secret agent who comes ourt of retirement for a mission in South Africa. Stella Stevens stars as an enemy agent.

Mister Deathman

1977

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

Listen to My Story poster
5.7

A young woman inherits a massive industrial empire that starts a feud with her relatives.

Listen to My Story

1974

Daar Kom Tant Alie poster
NR

Based on the famous radio story of Mike Heine. Tant Alie, who can't handle being alone on the farm, decides to go stay with her daughter in town, with hilarious results.

Daar Kom Tant Alie

1976

No artwork available
7.0

Tjokkie, his mother, and sister Tiemie live together on poverty row. Tjokkie has a gift of psychic ability and is prone to terrifying trances which allow him to see the future. His mother’s husband, a layabout called Giel Swart, sponges off her war pension. Meanwhile, Tiemie is in a relationship with an aggressive biker who has built a dangerous reputation around the suburbs.

Psychic in the Suburbs

1973

No artwork available
7.5

An episode in the Life of Eugène Marais

The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais

1977

Ongewenste Vreemdeling poster
7.0

Gerhard Steenberg is a murderer on parole. He travels to Duiwelsvallei, a place where even the devil must tread lightly. He becomes entangled in the peculiar lives of the Duiwelsvallei's people. Initially, things go well, but then murder, jealousy, blood feuds, and betrayal rear their heads. Gerhard becomes ensnared in a love triangle. Not even his girlfriend's suicide can drive the unwanted stranger out of the valley. Only blood, his own, that of his ex-wife, and his best friend Bergsma's, will allow him to leave Duiwelsvallei.

Ongewenste Vreemdeling

1974

No artwork available
NR

Feeing lonely after her son's transfer overseas, Wena du Plessis travels around the country, visiting some of her old friends from the past.

Sononder

1971

The Bank Robber poster
NR

The son of a banker decides to steal money from the bank to double it through gambling and then returning it. Unfortunately for him, he is being watched as he succeeds, and interesting events and twists follow.

The Bank Robber

1973

Series credits

7de Laan poster
8.3

7de Laan is an extraordinary microcosm where good and bad, evil and wholesome characters find themselves forming part of a wholesome community where no matter what – everyone counts and everyone cares…

7de Laan

2000

The Golden Girls poster
7.6

Four Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Bright, promiscuous, clueless and hilarious, these lovely, mismatched ladies form the perfect circle of friends.

The Golden Girls

1985

Designing Women poster
6.8

Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.

Designing Women

1986

Die Byl poster
8.0

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.

Die Byl

2016

The Adventures of Sinbad poster
6.9

The Adventures of Sinbad is a Canadian television series which aired from 1996 to 1998. It follows on the story from the pilot of the same name, and revolves around the series' protagonist, Sinbad. The series is a re-telling of the adventures of Sinbad from The Arabian Nights.

The Adventures of Sinbad

1996

The Triangle poster
6.3

A shipping magnate hires four experts from various fields to investigate what happened to his ships that went missing in the Bermuda Triangle. The team discovers a threat that might unravel time itself and cause the world to end.

The Triangle

2005

The Triangle poster
6.3

A shipping magnate hires four experts from various fields to investigate what happened to his ships that went missing in the Bermuda Triangle. The team discovers a threat that might unravel time itself and cause the world to end.

The Triangle

2005

Amalia poster
8.0

Amalia is a South African television drama series created by Chris Barnard, directed by Katinka Heyns and produced by Sonneblom Films about an unsolved murder where all the inhabitants of a small town are suspects. The series is in Afrikaans, with English subtitles.

Amalia

2005

Republiek van Zoid Afrika poster
9.0

Karen Zoid's talk show with comic sketches, visits with influential and exceptional people, and music that will take your breath away.

Republiek van Zoid Afrika

2014

Song Vir Katryn poster
9.0

Song vir Katryn is a modern romantic drama about Jinx, an M.D. and musican, who falls in love with Katryn, a woman with a dark and mysterious past.

Song Vir Katryn

2003

Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond poster
8.5

Onder Draai die Duiwel Rond is a South African television drama series created and written by Chris Barnard and produced by Sonneblom Films about beautiful people, good wine and respectable neighbours living on the banks of the Hartebeespoort Dam with lives that are seemingly idyllically peaceful and romantic, but which harbour deep secrets just beneath the surface of the facade.

Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond

1997

Good & Evil poster
7.0

Good & Evil is a situation comedy which was broadcast in the United States by ABC from September 25, 1991 until October 30, 1991. The series was created by Susan Harris, and produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions in association with Touchstone Television.

Good & Evil

1991

Fluiters poster
5.0

Fluiters (Whistleblowers) is a South African conspiracy thriller television series created by Deon Opperman which begins when a successful IT company gets sunk by a corrupt government official and hits back by creating a SecureDrop-style website where whistleblowers can leak evidence on corruption without fear of being exposed.

Fluiters

2016

Feast of the Uninvited poster
NR

Feast of the Uninvited (also known as Fees van die Ongenooides) is a South African period drama miniseries created by PG du Plessis and set during the Boer War which focuses on the lives of those who had to endure and suffer through it. The war became the ultimate test of who they really were for Captain Brooks, Harry the Welsh miner, the wealthy Van Wyk family and people like Daantjie van Wyk and his beautiful wife, Magrieta.

Feast of the Uninvited

2008