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Gray Hofmeyr is a Director and Scriptwriter Sud africain born on 6 february 1949 at Cape Town (South africa)
Gray Hofmeyr is a South African film and television director.
In a career that spans almost three decades, Hofmeyr's films have touched many themes and genres.
Career
Hofmeyr began his career in television in the 1970s in the United Kingdom where he was a floor manager at the BBC.
He began directing for television in 1975 and in 1992 began an award winning scriptwriting career. He was a key figure in the early days of television in South Africa, having directed this hit series: The Villagers and popular comedy series People Like Us, The Big Time and Suburban Bliss. He also directed the made-for-TV films The Outcast, Two Weeks in Paradise and Thicker Than Water.
Hofmeyr also created and produced the popular South African drama series, Isidingo which has become the flagship series for SABC 3 and has captured audiences across the cultural spectrum. In addition, he created a daily youth soap for the independent free-to-air channel eTV.
He has directed six feature films, four of which he co-wrote. He directed Leon Schuster's Sweet and Short, There's a Zulu On My Stoep, Mr Bones and Mama Jack. He has also directed the film of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick's classic novel Jock of the Bushveld and Schweitzer which starred Malcolm McDowell and Susan Strasberg. In January 1997 Hofmeyr became Head of Drama for Endemol South Africa, a division of Dutch-based Endemol Entertainment, one of the largest television companies in Europe.
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Birth name Gray Hofmeyr
Nationality South africa
Birth 6 february 1949 (76 years) at Cape Town (South africa)
Nationality South africa
Birth 6 february 1949 (76 years) at Cape Town (South africa)
In a career that spans almost three decades, Hofmeyr's films have touched many themes and genres.
Biography
Gray Hofmeyr is considered to be one of the foremost film and television directors and writers in South Africa. He has won more awards than any other in South Africa and over twenty actors and actresses have won best performance awards under his direction.Career
Hofmeyr began his career in television in the 1970s in the United Kingdom where he was a floor manager at the BBC.
He began directing for television in 1975 and in 1992 began an award winning scriptwriting career. He was a key figure in the early days of television in South Africa, having directed this hit series: The Villagers and popular comedy series People Like Us, The Big Time and Suburban Bliss. He also directed the made-for-TV films The Outcast, Two Weeks in Paradise and Thicker Than Water.
Hofmeyr also created and produced the popular South African drama series, Isidingo which has become the flagship series for SABC 3 and has captured audiences across the cultural spectrum. In addition, he created a daily youth soap for the independent free-to-air channel eTV.
He has directed six feature films, four of which he co-wrote. He directed Leon Schuster's Sweet and Short, There's a Zulu On My Stoep, Mr Bones and Mama Jack. He has also directed the film of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick's classic novel Jock of the Bushveld and Schweitzer which starred Malcolm McDowell and Susan Strasberg. In January 1997 Hofmeyr became Head of Drama for Endemol South Africa, a division of Dutch-based Endemol Entertainment, one of the largest television companies in Europe.
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Mad Buddies (2012)
, 1h36Directed by Gray Hofmeyr
Genres Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Alfred Ntombela, Tanit Phoenix, Leon Schuster, Trevor Noah, Gray Hofmeyr
Roles Old Man
Rating40%
Enemies, Boetie (Schuster) and Beast (Nkosi), are forced to embark on a road trip as unwitting subjects of a new TV reality show "Mufasa Mufasa, Walla Habibi", devised by a TV Producer, Kelsey, played by Tanit Phoenix. On camera, with the whole of South Africa in on the joke, the pair comes stuck at every stage of the journey until they discover that they have been conned and join forces to exact revenge.
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Mad Buddies (2012)
, 1h36Directed by Gray Hofmeyr
Genres Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Alfred Ntombela, Tanit Phoenix, Leon Schuster, Trevor Noah, Gray Hofmeyr
Rating40%
Enemies, Boetie (Schuster) and Beast (Nkosi), are forced to embark on a road trip as unwitting subjects of a new TV reality show "Mufasa Mufasa, Walla Habibi", devised by a TV Producer, Kelsey, played by Tanit Phoenix. On camera, with the whole of South Africa in on the joke, the pair comes stuck at every stage of the journey until they discover that they have been conned and join forces to exact revenge.
Directed by Gray Hofmeyr
Genres Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Alfred Ntombela, Leon Schuster, Tanit Phoenix
Rating59%
Schuks Tshabalala (Leon Schuster) and Shorty (Alfred Ntombela) are producing a survival guide to South Africa for tourists visiting the country for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. They take a group of tourists from Germany, Ireland, Greece, China, France, India and The Netherlands and show them what life is like in South Africa. However, the South Africa they see is one created entirely by Tshabalala and Shorty.
Directed by Gray Hofmeyr
Genres Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Leon Schuster
Rating45%
Mr. Bones 2: Back from the Past takes place in 1879, and the titular Character is the great great grandfather of the Mr. Bones from the first film. It is the story of Hekule, the King of Kuvukiland who is given a gemstone by the dying Kunji Balanadin. The stone is cursed and causes Hekule to become possessed by the spirit of the mischievous Kunji, which Bones describes as "wild rider". It is up to Mr. Bones to cure his King and get rid of this cursed stone by travelling 130 years into the future, in the city of Durban. They meet a woman named Reshmi who gave them important clues to the gem and returning the gem to its home in an Indian fishing village named Ataram.
Mama Jack (2005)
, 1h44Directed by Gray Hofmeyr
Genres Comedy
Actors Leon Schuster, Alfred Ntombela, Sean Michael
Rating44%
Set in Cape Town, South Africa Mama Jack is the story of Jack Theron, an ordinary person working on a film set as a grip. However, his movie producer boss, John Daragon, hates him and wants to remove him from the production of the movie they are producing about Nelson Mandela, Sweet Bird of Freedom. In a bid to get rid of Jack, the producer spikes his drink with a fictitious drug, Mama Africa at a glamorous function, and before long Jack has unwittingly offended all the attending dignitaries, ruined the function and got himself on the wrong side of the law while hallucinating.
Mr. Bones (2001)
, 1h47Directed by Gray Hofmeyr
Genres Comedy
Actors David Ramsey, Leon Schuster, Faizon Love, Zack du Plessis
Rating47%
The film begins in Kuvukiland, an undeveloped kingdom somewhere in Africa. Mr. Bones arrives as a baby, the sole survivor of an airplane crash that happens nearby. He grows older and becomes the bone-throwing prophesier for the kingdom. King Tsonga, ruler of Kuvukiland, longs for a male child to be heir to the throne. After having seventeen children, all of them girls, he gives up hope, until he remembers fathering a boy decades before in Sun City. He immediately sends Mr. Bones to find the future prince.
Yankee Zulu (1993)
Directed by Gray Hofmeyr
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism
Actors Leon Schuster
Rating63%
In Apartheid South Africa, white boy Rhino Labuschagne and Zulu Mashebela were best friends until Rhino, pressured by his American girlfriend, Rowena, shoots a can off Zulu's head, abruptly ending their friendship. 25 years later, Zulu has become a car thief in New York, picking up an American accent but not forgetting his roots as "the champion mud slinger of the world". The prison's warden gets Zulu deported back to Africa by the Threatened Immigrants Right-wing Defence, or TIRD.
Sweet 'n Short (1991)
, 1h30Directed by Gray Hofmeyr
Genres Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Alfred Ntombela, Leon Schuster
Rating61%
In South Africa, Sweet Coetzee wins an award for 20 years service as a sportscaster on his 40th birthday, beating his rival, pompous George "The Weasle" Weedle. After Sweet gets drunk one night at his birthday party, he misses a sportscast and his boss, Bryce Williams demotes him to interviewer and promotes Weedle. Through the next part of the film we see that Sweet is reckless as he openly says his girlfriend, Sandy is "the best bum in the business". A subplot of the film are two robbers, "Bossy" and "Savage" who the main characters remain remotely unaware of as they are just a comic theme. Sweet pulls a prank on Weedle during a golf game and is suspended for six month. Sweet also records Weedle having humorous intercourse with a prostitute, "The Orphan in a Storm". Sweet then decides to drown his sorrows in a casino at the slot machines, where he tricks a small boy, Alfred "Shorty" Short into thinking he is a genie. Bossy and Savage try to rob the casino when they accidentally break the disco ball and it knocks Sweet unconscious just as he hits the jackpot.
Schweitzer (1990)
Directed by Gray Hofmeyr
Genres Drama
Actors Malcolm McDowell, Susan Strasberg, John Carson, Henry Cele, Barbara Nielsen
Rating68%
Scriptwriter
Mad Buddies (2012)
, 1h36Directed by Gray Hofmeyr
Genres Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Alfred Ntombela, Tanit Phoenix, Leon Schuster, Trevor Noah, Gray Hofmeyr
Roles Writer
Rating40%
Enemies, Boetie (Schuster) and Beast (Nkosi), are forced to embark on a road trip as unwitting subjects of a new TV reality show "Mufasa Mufasa, Walla Habibi", devised by a TV Producer, Kelsey, played by Tanit Phoenix. On camera, with the whole of South Africa in on the joke, the pair comes stuck at every stage of the journey until they discover that they have been conned and join forces to exact revenge.
Directed by Gray Hofmeyr
Genres Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Alfred Ntombela, Leon Schuster, Tanit Phoenix
Rating59%
Schuks Tshabalala (Leon Schuster) and Shorty (Alfred Ntombela) are producing a survival guide to South Africa for tourists visiting the country for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. They take a group of tourists from Germany, Ireland, Greece, China, France, India and The Netherlands and show them what life is like in South Africa. However, the South Africa they see is one created entirely by Tshabalala and Shorty.
Directed by Gray Hofmeyr
Genres Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Leon Schuster
Roles Writer
Rating45%
Mr. Bones 2: Back from the Past takes place in 1879, and the titular Character is the great great grandfather of the Mr. Bones from the first film. It is the story of Hekule, the King of Kuvukiland who is given a gemstone by the dying Kunji Balanadin. The stone is cursed and causes Hekule to become possessed by the spirit of the mischievous Kunji, which Bones describes as "wild rider". It is up to Mr. Bones to cure his King and get rid of this cursed stone by travelling 130 years into the future, in the city of Durban. They meet a woman named Reshmi who gave them important clues to the gem and returning the gem to its home in an Indian fishing village named Ataram.
Mama Jack (2005)
, 1h44Directed by Gray Hofmeyr
Genres Comedy
Actors Leon Schuster, Alfred Ntombela, Sean Michael
Rating44%
Set in Cape Town, South Africa Mama Jack is the story of Jack Theron, an ordinary person working on a film set as a grip. However, his movie producer boss, John Daragon, hates him and wants to remove him from the production of the movie they are producing about Nelson Mandela, Sweet Bird of Freedom. In a bid to get rid of Jack, the producer spikes his drink with a fictitious drug, Mama Africa at a glamorous function, and before long Jack has unwittingly offended all the attending dignitaries, ruined the function and got himself on the wrong side of the law while hallucinating.
Mr. Bones (2001)
, 1h47Directed by Gray Hofmeyr
Genres Comedy
Actors David Ramsey, Leon Schuster, Faizon Love, Zack du Plessis
Rating47%
The film begins in Kuvukiland, an undeveloped kingdom somewhere in Africa. Mr. Bones arrives as a baby, the sole survivor of an airplane crash that happens nearby. He grows older and becomes the bone-throwing prophesier for the kingdom. King Tsonga, ruler of Kuvukiland, longs for a male child to be heir to the throne. After having seventeen children, all of them girls, he gives up hope, until he remembers fathering a boy decades before in Sun City. He immediately sends Mr. Bones to find the future prince.
Yankee Zulu (1993)
Directed by Gray Hofmeyr
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism
Actors Leon Schuster
Roles Writer
Rating63%
In Apartheid South Africa, white boy Rhino Labuschagne and Zulu Mashebela were best friends until Rhino, pressured by his American girlfriend, Rowena, shoots a can off Zulu's head, abruptly ending their friendship. 25 years later, Zulu has become a car thief in New York, picking up an American accent but not forgetting his roots as "the champion mud slinger of the world". The prison's warden gets Zulu deported back to Africa by the Threatened Immigrants Right-wing Defence, or TIRD.