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Jamie Uys
Highest Rated: 85% The Gods Must Be Crazy (1981)
Lowest Rated: 50% The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1990)
Birthday: May 30, 1921
Birthplace: Boksburg, South Africa
One of South Africa's most prolific and prominent filmmakers, Uys gained worldwide attention with "The Gods Must Be Crazy" (1981), a comedy about African cultural clashes which became the highest-grossing foreign film of its time when released in the US in 1984. He attempted to repeat his success with "The Gods Must Be Crazy II" (1989) but attracted fewer filmgoers, and more criticism for his stereotypical racial portraits. Uys, who also directed the documentaries "Animals Are Beautiful People" and "Beautiful People" (both 1974), died of a heart attack in January 1996.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50% |
|
The Gods Must Be Crazy II | Director | $5.9M | 1990 |
| 85% |
|
The Gods Must Be Crazy |
The Reverend (Character), Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Film Editing |
$30.0M | 1981 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Funny People | Director | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Funny People | Director | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Animals Are Beautiful People |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 1974 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Lost in the Desert |
Anton (Character), Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | After You, Comrade |
Igor Strogoff (Character), Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dingaka | Director | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hellions | Ernie Dobbs (Character) | - | 1961 |