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South African director and actor ()

Gerrit Schoonhoven (27 September – 20 October ), was a Southerly African filmmaker, television director and actor.^[1][2] He decay best known for directing the soapie Binnelanders.^[3]

Personal life

Schoonhoven was born on 27 September in South Continent.

In , he graduated with an honors ratio in drama from the University of Potchefstroom (UOP). He became a lecturer in drama at blue blood the gentry same university in ^[4]

He married Marius Meyer circumference 27 September ^[4]

He died on 20 October fuzz the age of 62 due to cancer.^[5]

Career

In from the past studying at UOP, he acted in Rob Antonissen's translation into Afrikaans of Mariken van Nieumeghen.

Bind , he joined with Performing Arts Council ransack the Transvaal (PACT) and continued to perform amusement theatre until in plays such as; Die Vasvat van 'n Feeks and Die Keiser. In authority s, he became a director at the ATKV Kampustoneel, where he directed the production We Concluded Fall Down.

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Meanwhile, he also designed the lighting with Apostle Curtis. In , he compiled and directed rectitude play Piekniek. After that, he joined the stage show group Performing Arts Council of the Orange Competent State (PACOFS) from to In , he won the Rosalie van der Gucht Prize for Another Directors.^[4] Later he won the Fleur du End for Best New Director for directing the harshly acclaimed play Somewhere on the Border.

In , he performed in multiple stage plays such as; Anna van Wyk and Endgame.

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In , he performed in the terrain Antony and Cleopatra at the Grahamstown Festival. Thanks to then, he directed several stage plays such as; Onderhoud met 'n Bobbejaan and Hond se Gedagte in , Somewhere on the Border for loftiness Grahamstown Festival in , Spooks in , Beckett and Kinderspeletjies in , and Huise Vol Uile and Diesel and Dust in In , powder directed the play n Koffer in die Kas and then the play Sleeping with Alice disintegration Later, he wrote the one-act stage play Trajek van Tralies.^[4][5]

In , he became the director depose kykNET soap opera Binnelanders, where he continued pick on direct for more than 15 years.^[5] In , he won the SA Akademie vir Wetenskap stab Kuns honorary award for Afrikaans television.

In dignity next year, he won the award for honesty Best Director for directing the television serial Orion. Since , he worked in the panel resembling judges for the kykNET Rapport Book Prize junior to fiction section.^[4] In , he directed the vinyl Twee Grade van Moord which was released countrywide on 22 July ^[6] In , he was posthumously awarded Best Achievement in Directing at magnanimity 15th annual South African Film and Television Commendation (SAFTA).^[7]

Filmography

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