Robert Whitehead

Acting

Robert Whitehead

Born

1950-09-23 (76)

Place of birth

Johannesburg, South Africa

Known for

Acting

Credits

31 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

2000s · 4 titles

1990s · 13 titles

Cry, the Beloved Country poster
6.8

A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.

Cry, the Beloved Country

1995

Sarafina! poster
6.2

A Soweto schoolgirl named Sarafina is galvanized to protest apartheid after her teacher is arrested for her activism, leading her to join the student resistance movement.

Sarafina!

1992

Ernest Goes to Africa poster
4.2

The title says it all. There's a mix up involving stolen diamonds which Ernest has (naturally) made into a yo-yo and given to his would be girlfriend, Rene. But Rene wants a man of action, and doesn't think that Ernest fits the bill. After the bad guys come looking for the stolen diamonds and kidnap Rene, all of her fantasies come true as Ernest has to go to Africa to rescue her.

Ernest Goes to Africa

1997

Bravo Two Zero poster
5.9

When an elite eight-man British SAS team is dropped behind enemy lines, their mission is clear: take out Saddam Hussein's SCUD missile systems. But when communications are cut and the team finds themselves surrounded by Saddam's army, their only hope is to risk capture and torture in a desperate 185-kilometer run to the Syrian border. Based on the true story of a British Special Forces unit behind enemy lines during the Gulf War, Bravo Two Zero explores the tragedies and triumphs of men taken to the edge of survival in the Persian Gulf War.

Bravo Two Zero

1999

Dangerous Ground poster
4.3

Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better for black men.

Dangerous Ground

1997

Cyborg Cop poster
4.3

Ex-DEA agent Jack receives an emergency message from his brother Phillip, whose team was ambushed on the Caribbean island of St. Keith. Jack goes to St. Keith to find his brother, who has been turned into a cyborg by the drug runner he was after.

Cyborg Cop

1993

Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday poster
4.5

A ship captained by the father of the leader of Delta Force is taken hostage by terrorists. As might be expected the force is sent in to stop them.

Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday

1998

Live Wire: Human Timebomb poster
5.4

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

Live Wire: Human Timebomb

1996

Bridge of Time poster
6.5

Three travelers find themselves in a strange world after their plane crashes in an isolated valley. They encounter a hidden city whose occupants are in possession of many of the great works of civilization, ready to rebuild the world if the existing one is destroyed.

Bridge of Time

1997

Heel Against the Head poster
5.2

Two rugby fans, Tjokkie and Crispin arrive in Wales for the Rugby World Cup in search of sport and females. All hell breaks loose when Crispin's wife arrives unexpectedly and Tjokkie has to cover for his friend.

Heel Against the Head

1999

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

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

The Man Who Drove with Mandela poster
10.0

During the time of apartheid Nelson Mandela drove around South Africa in a limousine disguised as a chauffeur while organizing the armed struggle against the apartheid regime. But who was the distinguished looking white man sitting in the back seat? Meet Cecil Williams, an acclaimed gay white theatre director and communist.

The Man Who Drove with Mandela

1998

1980s · 3 titles

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