Jeremy Crutchley
Biography
Jeremy Crutchley is a South African actor whose stage and screen career has run for more than four decades. He began in theater, playing Alan Strang in a 1985 production of Equus at the Alhambra Theatre and Dr. Frank-N-Furter in South Africa's first staging of The Rocky Horror Show in 1992, later working with the Orange Tree Theatre Repertory Company and appearing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in The Tempest and Sarcophagus. In I Am My Own Wife, staged from 2009 to 2010, he played Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, a role that won him best actor and best solo performance prizes at the Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards. His screen work includes the television series Black Sails and Salem and films such as Doomsday (2008), Red Water (2003), Flytrap (2015) and Death Race: Inferno (2013). He was nominated for a SAFTA Golden Horn for Retribution and also voiced the narrator of the Mission to Zyxx podcast.
Movie Career
- Films
- 15
- Career span
- 27 years1988 to 2015
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Behind the camera
Crutchley wrote and performed music and lyrics for Bloodbreath Anaesthetic, Sloper and A Nightmare on Pretoria Street. For Brothers of The Head, a 1984 play produced by Brian Aldiss, he supplied music, lyrics and sound effects.
Beyond film
In 2025, Crutchley put out his first studio album, titled RELEASE, using the name Jeremy Crutchley & The Standing Wave.
Behind the award
Crutchley played Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf in I Am My Own Wife from 2009 to 2010, a role that won him Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards for Best Actor and Best Solo Performance.
A first
Crutchley took on the part of "Dr. Frank-N-Furter" in 1992, when South Africa staged its first production of The Rocky Horror Show.
Beyond film
Crutchley provided the voice of the narrator on Mission to Zyxx, a comedy podcast space opera that aired from 2017 to 2022.
Jeremy Crutchley movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Donovan Marsh directed two of these films. Two actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Donovan MarshDirector, 2 films, 2010 to 2013
All films by Donovan Marsh
Also two films together13 more actors
- Sean HiggsLost City Raiders (2008) and The Deal (2008)
- Sven RuygrokSpud 2: The Madness Continues (2013) and Spud (2010)
- Charlbi Dean KriekSpud 2: The Madness Continues (2013) and Spud (2010)
- Troye SivanSpud 2: The Madness Continues (2013) and Spud (2010)
- Byron LangleySpud 2: The Madness Continues (2013) and Spud (2010)
- Julie SummersSpud 2: The Madness Continues (2013) and Spud (2010)
- Ronald FranceAsk the Dust (2006) and Red Water (2003)
- Aaron McIlroySpud 2: The Madness Continues (2013) and Spud (2010)
- Blessing XabaSpud 2: The Madness Continues (2013) and Spud (2010)
- Genna BlairSpud 2: The Madness Continues (2013) and Spud (2010)
- Josh GoddardSpud 2: The Madness Continues (2013) and Spud (2010)
- Tom BurneSpud 2: The Madness Continues (2013) and Spud (2010)
- Travis HornsbySpud 2: The Madness Continues (2013) and Spud (2010)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Jeremy Crutchley's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$102 million
6 of the 15 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 15 films: 6 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 2 never in cinemas; 6 figure not found.
- 6Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 2Never in cinemas
- 6Figure not found
Highest grossing
The six biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$73M70.9% of the total
- 2$22M21.9% of the total
- 3$2.5M2.4% of the total
- 4$2.4M2.4% of the total
- 5$1.8M1.7% of the total
- 6$691K0.7% of the total
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