Percival Rubens
Percival Rubens (Krugersdorp, 29 December 1928 – Johannesburg, 13 June 2009) was a South African film director and scriptwriter.
Percival Rubens
- Name
- Percival Rubens
- Born
- 29 December 1929
- Birthplace
- Krugersdorp
- Occupation
- Film director, Screenwriter, Film producer
- Died
- 2009 · Johannesburg.
- Nationality
- South Africa
- Languages
- English
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• Name — Percival Rubens • Born — 29 December 1929 • Birthplace — Krugersdorp • Citizenship — South Africa • Occupation — Film director, Screenwriter, Film producer
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Films
• The Boy and the Mountain (short) (1958) • The Foster Gang (screenplay with Lee Marcus) (1964) • The Long Red Shadow (screenplay with Lee Marcus) (1968) • Strangers at Sunrise (screenplay with Lee Marcus) (1969), • Mister Kingstreet’s War / Heroes Die Hard (screenplay with George Harding) (1971) • Die Saboteurs (1974) • Mighty Man (1978) • The Demon (also screenwriter)) (1979) • Survival Zone (screenplay with Eric Brown) (1982) • Hostage (with Hanro Möhr) (1987) • Zone / Okavango (1989) • Sweet Murder (also screenwriter) (1990).
Awards
Posthumous Golden Horn Lifetime Achievement Award for Direction from SAFTA in 2010.
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- 1.Armes, Roy. Dictionary of African filmmakers. Bloomington : Indiana University Press. 2008. 978-0-253-35116-6.
- 2.Friedberg, Lionel. Forever in My Veins: How Film Led Me to the Mysterious World of the African Shaman. John Hunt Publishing. 2021-01-29. 978-1-78904-392-1.
- 3.All the 2010 SAFTAs winners. Bizcommunity.
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