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Leon Schuster is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Sound Sud africain born on 21 may 1951 at Vereeniging (South africa)
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster (born 21 May, 1951) is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.
Il s'est aussi fait connaitre comme interprète comique de films de caméras cachés exploités au cinéma au niveau international (série des You must be Jocking) et pour la réalisation de comédies. Il est présenté souvent comme le successeur de Jamie Uys en tant que roi du film comique en Afrique du Sud. Certains de ses films comme There's a Zulu On My Stoep ("il y a un zoulou sur ma terrasse") sont aussi soupçonnés parfois d’une forme d’inconscient raciste. Néanmoins, les films de Schuster attirent le plus grand nombre de spectateurs sud-africains depuis le début des années 1990.
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Leon Schuster
Birth name Leon Ernest Schuster
Nationality South africa
Birth 21 may 1951 (73 years) at Vereeniging (South africa)
Nationality South africa
Birth 21 may 1951 (73 years) at Vereeniging (South africa)
Biography
Diplômé de l’Université de l’État libre d'Orange, Leon Schuster a commencé sa carrière d'abord comme un chanteur de musique populaire de langue afrikaans.Il s'est aussi fait connaitre comme interprète comique de films de caméras cachés exploités au cinéma au niveau international (série des You must be Jocking) et pour la réalisation de comédies. Il est présenté souvent comme le successeur de Jamie Uys en tant que roi du film comique en Afrique du Sud. Certains de ses films comme There's a Zulu On My Stoep ("il y a un zoulou sur ma terrasse") sont aussi soupçonnés parfois d’une forme d’inconscient raciste. Néanmoins, les films de Schuster attirent le plus grand nombre de spectateurs sud-africains depuis le début des années 1990.
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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
Roles Boetie
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
Roles Dr. Schuks Tshabalala / Various
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 Mr Bones
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
Roles Jack Theron, Donald And Mama Bola
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.
Oh Schuks... I'm Gatvol (2004)
Directed by Leon Schuster
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Leon Schuster, Alfred Ntombela, Bill Flynn
Roles Schuks
Rating50%
After growing fed up with crime in South Africa, Shucks decides to move to Australia, with his friend Alf. Also, we see a Schuster version of Saddam Hussein, called Samoosa Woestyn (ruler of fictional Afkaq) who plans to kill U.S. President George W. Bush at a worldwide country conference. After being in hiding for a year he comes out as a midget. This is when he and his associate Ali go to the conference to get Bush. In the night, Shucks pulls his maid Precious into the jacuzzi and gives her everything he owns, though he cannot remember this the next morning because he was drunk. Samoosa and Ali also fall as another bunch of victims in Shucks' prank list when they are scared by an ash tray that explodes. They are going to be in his new movie, which everybody in South Africa will be viewing.
Mr. Bones (2001)
, 1h47Directed by Gray Hofmeyr
Genres Comedy
Actors David Ramsey, Leon Schuster, Faizon Love, Zack du Plessis
Roles Mr. Bones
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 Rhino Labuschagne
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
Roles Sweet Coetzee
Rating60%
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.
Genres Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism, Political films
Actors Leon Schuster, Alfred Ntombela, Bill Flynn, Ron Smerczak
Roles Kwagga
Rating62%
Kwagga Robertse owns a farm shop in the fictional Southern African country of Nambabwe and usually cons foreign tourists by pretending to kill a lion, thus earning him the nickname 'Urumbo' (Lion Killer) from the country's natives. Kwagga is upset when the UN sends a platoon of incompetent soldiers with the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (U.N.T.A.G.), to monitor the peace process, and ensure free and fair elections after the Nambabwean War for Independence. The U.N.T.A.G's American leader, Major Bradick D. Mackay and his second-in-command, Captain Zapman are offered a diamond worth a lot of money in the U.S., and they must pay 200,000 USD to Duan Robertse, Kwagga's competitive brother trying to buy a farm left to them by their dead father.
, 1h24Directed by Leon Schuster
Genres Comedy
Actors Leon Schuster, Alfred Ntombela
Roles Schuks
Rating63%
In a series of short skits, Leon Schuster uses candid camera and several disguises to stitch up the general public of South Africa. Such sketches include:
You Must Be Joking! Too (1987)
, 1h24Directed by Leon Schuster
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Leon Schuster
Roles Himself
Rating48%
You Must Be Joking! (1986)
, 1h36Genres Comedy
Actors Leon Schuster
Roles Himself
Rating59%
In a series of short skits, Leon Schuster uses candid camera and several disguises to stitch up the general public of South Africa. Such sketches include:
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Oh Schuks... I'm Gatvol (2004)
Directed by Leon Schuster
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Leon Schuster, Alfred Ntombela, Bill Flynn
Rating50%
After growing fed up with crime in South Africa, Shucks decides to move to Australia, with his friend Alf. Also, we see a Schuster version of Saddam Hussein, called Samoosa Woestyn (ruler of fictional Afkaq) who plans to kill U.S. President George W. Bush at a worldwide country conference. After being in hiding for a year he comes out as a midget. This is when he and his associate Ali go to the conference to get Bush. In the night, Shucks pulls his maid Precious into the jacuzzi and gives her everything he owns, though he cannot remember this the next morning because he was drunk. Samoosa and Ali also fall as another bunch of victims in Shucks' prank list when they are scared by an ash tray that explodes. They are going to be in his new movie, which everybody in South Africa will be viewing.
, 1h24Directed by Leon Schuster
Genres Comedy
Actors Leon Schuster, Alfred Ntombela
Rating63%
In a series of short skits, Leon Schuster uses candid camera and several disguises to stitch up the general public of South Africa. Such sketches include:
You Must Be Joking! Too (1987)
, 1h24Directed by Leon Schuster
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Leon Schuster
Rating48%