Robin Smith
Robin B. Smith is a South African former wrestling manager and actor. He is most famous for participating in the 2009 film Invictus. He was known in the WWF as the Commandant, who managed the South African Truth Commission for a short time in 1997. Born in South Africa, his film career started in 1987 in the film Scavengers. He appeared in many South African movies throughout the late 1980s to the 2000s. Wrestling career Smith became a manager in professional wrestling in early 1997. Bret Hart visited South Africa and met Smith. Hart recommended him for a role in the World Wrestling Federation, however he never fought as a wrestler. Smith made his wrestling debut in Tennessee in the US Wrestling Association (USWA). He wrestled under the name Commandant, and managed a group of wrestlers including "Interrogator", "Tank" and "Recon" as the "Truth and Reconciliation Commission". This tea won the USWA Tag Team Championship three times. In June 1997, the Truth Commission made their WWF debut. Smith made promos on WWF about the Truth Commission and attacking the United States for not having discipline. He was hated by the fans. "Sniper" replaced "Tank" on the commission. He was interviewed by Sunny, but scared her by yelling at her. During the summer of 1997 the group lost only to "Legion of Doom". In September, Smith was replaced by Don Callis, the "Jackyl"; the WWF wanted someone who could participate physically in the matches. Smith returned to South Africa, ending his wrestling career. Acting Smith appeared in 2006's The Fall, a film about Los Angeles based in the 1920s. In 2009 he played Johan De Villers in Invictus, about a South Africa rugby team fighting to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup. Personal As of 2011 he lived in South Africa, as a freelancer.
The Fall
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Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically...
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A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he...
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Poena Is Koning
as Security GuardPoena is Koning follows the sexual awakening of Poena Pieterse and his high school buddy...
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Man to Man
as DouglasAn epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an...
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Red Dust
as Duty OfficerSarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood...
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Project Shadowchaser II
as PrineTerrorists led by an android take over a nuclear plant and threaten to launch a missile at...
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Beauty
as GideonFrançois van Heerden, a mid-40s Afrikaans family man, has become devoid of any care or concern...
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Cyborg Cop II
as FatsJack, a cop, loses his partner to a crazed terrorist during a hostage rescue sending the man to...
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Dangerous Ground
as Iron GuardVusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy to bury his father. He...
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The Revenger
as ChuckWhen saxophonist Mike Teller's brother Mackie is killed before being able to deliver $500,000 to...
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Master Harold... and the Boys
as Man in Bar / Radio news readerThis movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant...
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Running Free
as BlacksmithThe tale of the extraordinary life and times of Lucky, a horse that was born in captivity but...
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Bopha!
as RetliefIn this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop,...
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Proteus
as MunsterAn exquisite period piece that skillfully explores the intersections of sex, race and politics...
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Lunar Cop
as StopperA cop from the moon is sent to the Earth, now possessed by motorcycle-riding "Mad Max"-like...
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Angus Buchan's Ordinary People
as Herman VisserThe plot follows the individual journeys of three ordinary South African men in the build up to...
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The Meeksville Ghost
as OxA cowboy ghost, one young man, a mother and son separated at his birth by a disapproving father,...
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Deadly Harvest
as Ambulance DriverMarisa and Frank honeymoon in South Africa. A particularly favourable offer lures them to a...
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Lipstiek Dipstiek
as FrikkieThe story is about Poenie (Franscois Coertze) who burns his scrotum with a welding iron while...
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Never Say Die
as AngelThe peaceful existence of boat repairman Blake (Frank Zagarino) is destroyed when the Reverend...
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Black Velvet Band
as VermeerPeriod drama Black Velvet Band takes us back to Victorian times when a gang of petty crooks find...
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Pursuit
as Crazy EzraA mercenary is hired to hunt down a group of rebel soldiers in Africa.
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Hearts & Minds
as WillemIn the final days of the pro-apartheid government, bigoted policeman and assassin Andries Fourie...
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Merchants of War
as Harry GereThe heroes are best friends and commandos sent on a covert mission by the CIA. The mission is a...
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Reason to Die
as OttoA cop sets up his girlfriend as a target in order to trap a serial killer.
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Bow Tie
as Blignaut (uncredited)Don “Vossie” Vorster is a geeky bunny-hugger with a good heart. About to set off for...
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Death Force
as Robert McCullamA private eye investigates fraud in the world of horse racing.
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Torn Allegiance
as WillitsPiet du Bois is a miner who wants to buy a farm. He meets a Bushman and his wife buying their...
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WWE Raw
as The CommandantA regularly scheduled, live, year-round program featuring some of the biggest WWE Superstars.
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Die Byl
as WikusThe unit specializes in the investigation of serial murders and is led by Van der Bijl, a former...
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Projek Dina
as Kobus FerreiraA south African series that takes place in the work and life environment of the emergency...
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Die Spreeus
as FrikkieDie Spreeus (The Starlings) is a South Africa, Afrikaans-language supernatural crime procedural...
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