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Robin Smith
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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.
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Franois van Heerden a mid40s...Beauty 2011
François van Heerden, a mid-40s Afrikaans family man, has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, and so convinced of his ill-fated existence, that he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter unravels his clean, controlled life.
This movie is of Hally an...Master Harold... and the Boys 2010
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Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows...Invictus 2009
Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.
Poena is Koning follows the sexual...Poena Is Koning 2007
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In a hospital on the outskirts...The Fall 2006
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A cowboy ghost one young man...The Meeksville Ghost 2001
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Period drama Black Velvet Band takes...Black Velvet Band 1997
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Vusi Madlazi returns to the South...Dangerous Ground 1997
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A cop from the moon is...Lunar Cop 1995
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The story is about Poenie Franscois...Lipstiek Dipstiek 1994
The story is about Poenie (Franscois Coertze) who burns his scrotum with a welding iron while working on his car and lands in hospital a few days before he is to marry the virgin Martie. This is the first mishap in a series of disasters and misunderstandings that provides many belly-clutching laughs. As Poenie's father Frikadel (Zak du Plessis) puts it, "Die seun sit sy voet uit die voordeur uit en dan is hy kniediep in die kak!"
Jack a cop loses his partner...Cyborg Cop II 1994
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Terrorists led by an android take...Project Shadowchaser II 1994
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In this story of a black...Bopha! 1993
In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid movement, he finds himself torn between his family and what he believes is his duty.
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A Russian KGB agent is sent...Red Scorpion 1988
A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians and their Cuban allies are killing and repressing the locals, so he switches sides and helps the rebels.
