Frank Rautenbach

Acting

Frank Rautenbach

Born

1972-05-12 (54)

Place of birth

South Africa

Known for

Acting

Credits

22 titles

Leon Francois Rautenbach, popularly known as Frank Rautenbach, is a South African actor and producer. He is best known for the roles in the films Faith Like Potatoes, The Bang Bang Club and biographical film Hansie: A True Story.

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

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

Reyka poster
5.6

In 1994 South Africa, the daughter of a multiracial couple is kidnapped. She escapes and as an adult becomes a detective. Continuing to deal with her past trauma, Reyka Gama uses her skills to raise her child and solve mysteries that have challenged others.

Reyka

2021

Summertide poster
9.0

The story of marine biologist and father of two children, Martin Field, who moves to the False Bay area to get away from a big secret - the death of his wife. There he starts a marine conservation trust for False Bay - but life isn't as simple as it seems.

Summertide

2024

Unseen poster
6.7

A house cleaner desperately searches for her husband as a dreaded criminal syndicate dredges up past tragedies and ultimately drives her to violence.

Unseen

2023

Projek Dina poster
9.0

A south African series that takes place in the work and life environment of the emergency response task force, where the pressure is sky high and the room for error is tiny. Now that the task force has just been set up by the Western Cape police - as a way to combat the rapidly increasing cases of missing persons in South Africa - the members of the task force have a seemingly impossible task at hand: to find the missing persons in Cape Town and bring them home one by one.

Projek Dina

2020

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

2010s · 5 titles

The Bang Bang Club poster
6.6

In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.

The Bang Bang Club

2011

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2.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Wolf

2012

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NR

After an unexpected tragedy, an inner-city teen in Reading, England struggles to put together disturbing pieces of his life. As he grapples with what he has lost, he finds life, love and unexpected strength in a terminal cancer patient.

The Film-Maker's Son

2013

Turnipseed: Second Chance poster
NR

A former gang leader has a passion for rebuilding relationships.

Turnipseed: Second Chance

2013

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NR

Lawrence Gilliard, Jr. once again stars as John Turnipseed in the 3rd and final film of the Turnipseed trilogy. Torn from an idyllic life with a loving extended family in 1960's Alabama, young Johnny Turnipseed found himself in Minnesota with a father he no longer recognized, and empty cupboards. AB Turnipseed's alcoholism started a chain reaction of poverty, violence, addiction and despair that nearly destroyed three generations. From lost and frightened little boy to gang leader, drug dealer and pimp, to one of the nation's most respected pioneers of community restoration, this is a story of transformation and restoration told with honesty, and contagious hope.

Turnipseed: Legacy

2015

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

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

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

Reyka poster
5.6

In 1994 South Africa, the daughter of a multiracial couple is kidnapped. She escapes and as an adult becomes a detective. Continuing to deal with her past trauma, Reyka Gama uses her skills to raise her child and solve mysteries that have challenged others.

Reyka

2021

Summertide poster
9.0

The story of marine biologist and father of two children, Martin Field, who moves to the False Bay area to get away from a big secret - the death of his wife. There he starts a marine conservation trust for False Bay - but life isn't as simple as it seems.

Summertide

2024

Unseen poster
6.7

A house cleaner desperately searches for her husband as a dreaded criminal syndicate dredges up past tragedies and ultimately drives her to violence.

Unseen

2023

Projek Dina poster
9.0

A south African series that takes place in the work and life environment of the emergency response task force, where the pressure is sky high and the room for error is tiny. Now that the task force has just been set up by the Western Cape police - as a way to combat the rapidly increasing cases of missing persons in South Africa - the members of the task force have a seemingly impossible task at hand: to find the missing persons in Cape Town and bring them home one by one.

Projek Dina

2020

Lioness poster
7.7

A woman is wrongly convicted of fraud and in the process losses her children. She emerges from prison eight years later intending to reunite with her children and clear her name.

Lioness

2021

Invisible poster
NR

When London-based media and publicity consultant Emma le Roux receives a desperate call from her brother—who had vanished decades earlier—she returns to South Africa and is drawn into a deadly conspiracy involving poaching, political corruption, and the mysterious death of Mozambican presidential candidate Armando Catano. Together with bodyguard Martin Dekker and police detective Colonel Jack Phatudi, Emma begins to unravel a web of power, violence, and mystery in the Lowveld—secrets that have remained buried for more than twenty years.

Invisible

2026

Dankie, Lottoland poster
8.0

The aim of Dankie, Lottoland is to identify individuals and charities in need, so that Lottoland South Africa can intervene, roll up its sleeves and support and assist them. Through this popular television series, 13 charities (or vulnerable individuals) also gain the opportunity for national exposure on television, with a view to gaining further support from the public in the future.

Dankie, Lottoland

2021

Beter as Gister poster
10.0

Beter as Gister is a South African, Afrikaans-language television drama series which revolves around four families and especially the role of the men in them, inspired by the question: Why are fathers held to a different standard than mothers?

Beter as Gister

2026

Hier Sit Die Manne poster
5.0

In this talk show, the actor Frank Rautenbach invites guests to talk about things that interest and inspire him. From cars, fishing, hunting, investments, travel and rugby - everything that is close to the men's hearts.

Hier Sit Die Manne

2023