Jamie Uys

Jacobus Johannes Uys says Jamie Uys (May 30th 1921 with Bocksburg - January 29th 1996 with Johannesburg) was a Acteur, Réalisateur and Scénariste of South Africa, resulting from communautée the afrikaner.

It carries out its first film Daar doer in die bosveld ( in full bush ) in 1951 starting from capital of private companies.

It carries out 24 films throughout its career, mainly animalist comedies or films. It is itself often interprets in its films.

The film the gods fell on the head in 1980 with Sandra Prinsloo devotes it to the international level.

Its detractors reproach however him a subjacent Racisme through its films and to be itself never committed against the mode of Apartheid in South Africa.

He dies of an heart attack in 1996.

Cinematographic work

Daar Doer in die Bosveld (1951)
Fifty-Fifty (1952)
Geld Soos Bossies (1954)
Stanskoraal (1956)
Hans in die Rooinek (1957)
RIP Van Wyk (1958)
Doodkry is Min (1960)
Lord Oom Piet (1962)
Dingaka the wizard (1965), with Stanley Baker
All the way to bets (1965)
The Professor and the Beauty Queen (1967)
After You, Comrade (1967)
Lost in the Serves (1971)
Animals Are Beautiful People (Kalahari, 1974), the Grand Prix of best documentary of the foreign press in Hollywood
Funny People (God soaps me, 1976), film of camera hidden
The Gods Must Be Crazy (the gods fell over the head, 1979), Grand Prix of the festival of the comedy of Vevey, Prix of the most popular film with Montreal; Grand Prix and price of the public with Chamrousse
Funny People II (the angels split the mouth, 1983), film of camera hidden
The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989) with Arnold Vosloo
Gods must Be funny in Clouded (1994)

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