Robin Smith
Biography
Robin Smith is a South African actor, voice artist and director whose professional life began on stage in Cape Town in 1970, while he was still at high school. He studied at the University of Cape Town Drama School but left after two and a half years of the three-year course to join The Space Theater. In 1979, he relocated to Johannesburg to keep working in theater and to enter television. He started in films during the 1980s boom in B-grade action movies and later built a long screen career in South African and overseas productions. In 1997, he worked for nine months as The Commandant, a manager in the WWF, where he led the Truth Commission. He is credited with more than 100 feature films and television shows and continues to act, direct and do voice work from Cape Town.
71years old
Turns 72 on February 28in 109 days
- Born Cape Town
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
- Also credited as Robin Beauclerk Smith
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 21 years1994 to 2015
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A change of course
In early 1997 Smith became a professional wrestling manager. Bret Hart met him while visiting South Africa and recommended him for a manager role in the World Wrestling Federation, though Smith never fought as a wrestler.
A change of course
Smith made his wrestling debut in Tennessee for the United States Wrestling Association, managing a paramilitary stable called the Truth Commission that included Interrogator, Tank and Recon.
A first
Smith's Truth Commission captured the USWA Tag Team Championship three times. In June 1997 the group debuted in the WWF, and that summer The Legion of Doom was the only team to beat them.
A role that slipped away
In September, The Jackyl took Smith's place. Smith departed because he had no wrestling training, and the WWF wanted a manager able to take part in matches and take bumps.
First role
Smith made his professional debut in 1970 in the theater production "Hadrian V11" while he was still a high school student in Cape Town.
A change of course
Smith relocated to Johannesburg in 1979, hoping to keep working in the theater and to break into TV, which had only arrived in South Africa in 1976.
Robin Smith movies on Netflix
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