Joe Stewardson

Acting

Joe Stewardson

Born 1927-01-01 · Southport, Lancashire, England, UK

Acting credits

Flatfoot in Africa poster
6.2

Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the South African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his young son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.

Flatfoot in Africa

1978

White Ghost poster
4.8

July '72. Vietnam. Lt. Steve Shepard missing in action. Presumed dead...15 years later he's still there.

White Ghost

1988

Funny People poster
6.0

What would you do if you were walking along the street and a cute little lady rushed up to you and gave you a smashing kiss, as if you’d known each other for years? And how does one remain cool as a cucumber when you’re busy with an important audition and the chair you are sitting on gets hotter and hotter until you have to jump up in discomfort to save your behind?

Funny People

1976

Act of Piracy poster
3.9

A large motor yacht becomes the focal point in this action tale when a group of mercenaries decide to capture the vessel. The original owner, who was delivering it to Sydney, Australia, is believed dead but is in fact very much alive, and determined to recover the yacht...

Act of Piracy

1988

Kick or Die poster
4.2

A sadistic rapist is atacking female students on a college campus. The college enlists the help of wealthy record producer Craig Merkel who hires his old friend Don Potter to teach the students self-defence. Don meets waitress Eve Campo who has her heart set on a singing career, so Don introduces her to Craig. However Craig has much more than her career on his mind.

Kick or Die

1987

Circles in a Forest poster
6.1

Saul Barnard grew up in a family of woodcutters. The woodcutters are scared of the elephants in the forest, but there's one elephant that never seems to threaten Saul. Tired of being exploited by wood buyers, Saul takes a stand and his father chases him away. He goes to work on the wood buyer MacDonald's wood yard, where he gets to know MacDonald's daughter, Kate, and falls in love with her. After a few years he leaves MacDonald and joins the first prospectors in the forest, searching for gold. Millwood becomes a small town with hotels and bars and houses. Kate appears again.

Circles in a Forest

1989

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

Funny People II poster
6.3

"Funny People" is packed with scenes which will make you double up with laughter! What would you do if you were walking along the street and a cute little lady rushed up to you and gave you a smashing kiss, as if you'd known each other for years? And how does one remain cool as a cucumber when you're busy with an important audition and the chair you are sitting on gets hotter until you have to jump up in discomfort to save your behind? Then there is the case of the bank note sticking out from under the wheel of a car. People will always be human and no-one will walk past without trying to pull it out, even if the mudguard comes off or the hooter suddenly starts blowing. The antics to get this note out will make you laugh until tears roll down your cheeks!

Funny People II

1983

April 1980 poster
NR

She was innocent, but in control of their devious plans. As a spy, he was in a perfect position on campus. As an activist, everything had to be according to his distorted ideals.

April 1980

1980

Merchants of War poster
4.3

The heroes are best friends and commandos sent on a covert mission by the CIA. The mission is a success, but the two incur the wrath of the world's most feared terrorist, a fanatical Islamic, when they set out to do one last mission.

Merchants of War

1989

No artwork available
NR

A Test Group Travels to The Kalahari Desert

The Mantis Project

1987

City of Blood poster
4.2

A medical examiner investigating a series of prostitute murders discovers that the culprit is an ancient tribal witch doctor come back to life.

City of Blood

1987

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

Brutal Glory poster
3.4

The highly fictionalized making and breaking of Norman Selby, more recognizable as Kid McCoy, the real life American middleweight world boxing champion from the turn of the 20th century.

Brutal Glory

1989

Enemy Unseen poster
4.0

A couple of young scientists, Mel Noble and Roxeanne Tangent, travel to an island in Africa thought to be deserted in search of crocodile life, when African Natives storm the camp and kidnap Roxeanne. Her father, Gordon hires Steiger and his team of investigators to track down the natives that worship crocodiles as sacred animals. The problem is: they can't be seen. With natives in the jungles and crocodiles in the waters, Steiger and his crew must fight to survive and save Roxeanne from being sacrificed in a gruesome ritual with an "Enemy Unseen."

Enemy Unseen

1989

The Virgin Goddess poster
5.6

Reworking of H. Ridder Haggard's SHE with softcore sex star Sarli as the white "goddess" who lives among the tribes of South Africa and can enjoy eternal life as long as she remains a virgin. Enter adventurer Bo and the trouble begins.

The Virgin Goddess

1974

No artwork available
4.5

Story of a New York cabbie. Based on a South African radio show.

Taxi!

1970

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

Scavengers poster
9.0

A college professor and his ex-girlfriend find themselves being hunted by the CIA, the KGB and an African drug smuggler. Seems they have inadvertently gotten information that would show how the KGB gave the CIA state secrets in return for a cut of the African drug-smuggling market.

Scavengers

1987

The Winners poster
7.0

In this sports-oriented drama from South Africa, a former Olympic marathon champion pushes his sons to be as successful in competition as he was and emphasizes victory above all else.

The Winners

1972

Broer Matie poster
NR

A senior farmer of the Little Karoo dies and determines in his will that a brown minister must observe his funeral service. However, it is 1961 and apartheid is the order of the day.

Broer Matie

1984

No artwork available
4.3

This socially conscious film, set in South Africa, presents an interracial love story between a German geologist and a young black woman. The German is only visiting South Africa. He meets his new love in a shop where he hires her as his housekeeper. She soon becomes his lover and this infuriates their nosy neighbors who report them to the police.

City Lovers

1982

Let the Music Be poster
NR

A film about the music industry starring Ginger Lynn Allen

Let the Music Be

1990

Pens en Pootjies poster
NR

Two brothers take part in a cross country competition and somehow end up foiling criminal activities in the mean time.

Pens en Pootjies

1974

Behind the camera

Stadig Oor Die Klippe poster
NR

A detective agency gives a complex smuggling case to the seemingly absent-minded PI Boetie Flenters - never thinking he will solve it. Monica Terblanche (alias Hester Smith) is blackmailed to smuggle diamonds by Da Silva (aka Hennie Gous) and his accomplice. In return, she will receive the negative of an incriminating photo of her father. The investigation takes Boetie to the village of Geenfontein. When he bungles things he is fired and takes jobs as a bus conductor, hospital porter, lifeguard, lounge singer and plumber. Then he meets Hester, who explains her predicament, and they decide to work together.

Stadig Oor Die Klippe

1969

Pens en Pootjies poster
NR

Two brothers take part in a cross country competition and somehow end up foiling criminal activities in the mean time.

Pens en Pootjies

1974

Pens en Pootjies poster
NR

Two brothers take part in a cross country competition and somehow end up foiling criminal activities in the mean time.

Pens en Pootjies

1974

'Lelik' Is My Sacrifice poster
NR

Hannes Lombard is a medical doctor who was struck off the roll for substance abuse. He takes refuge on a farm in northern Natal, where his farming efforts are unsuccessful. Buks, his godson is sent to live with him. He’s quite happy to swop city life for a carefree life on the farm with new playmates in a new school. He and Sproetie, the neighbours’ little girl soon become great friends and their laid-back existence becomes even more idyllic when Hannes gives them each a horse. But the serpent sneaks into paradise. Lelik, Buks’s dog startles Sproetie’s horse, who throws her. The fall leaves Sproetie paralysed, and Buks is consumed by selfreproach. But it is old Willem, the farmhand, and his simple wisdom who makes life bearable again for everyone.

'Lelik' Is My Sacrifice

1975

'Lelik' Is My Sacrifice poster
NR

Hannes Lombard is a medical doctor who was struck off the roll for substance abuse. He takes refuge on a farm in northern Natal, where his farming efforts are unsuccessful. Buks, his godson is sent to live with him. He’s quite happy to swop city life for a carefree life on the farm with new playmates in a new school. He and Sproetie, the neighbours’ little girl soon become great friends and their laid-back existence becomes even more idyllic when Hannes gives them each a horse. But the serpent sneaks into paradise. Lelik, Buks’s dog startles Sproetie’s horse, who throws her. The fall leaves Sproetie paralysed, and Buks is consumed by selfreproach. But it is old Willem, the farmhand, and his simple wisdom who makes life bearable again for everyone.

'Lelik' Is My Sacrifice

1975

No artwork available
10.0

Believing that her long-lost father is a popular touring singer, a young woman named Carrie pursues him from Switzerland to South Africa.

Follow that Rainbow

1979