Robin Smith

Robin Smith

Robin B. 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.

  • Title: Robin Smith
  • Popularity: 2.782
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1955-02-28
  • Place of Birth: Basutoland, South Africa
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  • Also Known As: The Commandant, Rob Smith
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Robin Smith Movies

  • 2005
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    Man to Man

    Man to Man

    6.2 2005 HD

    An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.

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  • 2007
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    Poena Is Koning

    Poena Is Koning

    6 2007 HD

    Poena is Koning follows the sexual awakening of Poena Pieterse and his high school buddy Vaatjie, who have decided that they have to lose their...

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  • 2009
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    Invictus

    Invictus

    7.2 2009 HD

    Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring...

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  • 1994
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    Lipstiek Dipstiek

    Lipstiek Dipstiek

    6.4 1994 HD

    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...

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  • 2004
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    Red Dust

    Red Dust

    5.8 2004 HD

    Sarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood dwelling place to intercede for Alex Mpondo, a Black...

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  • 1995
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    Lunar Cop

    Lunar Cop

    4.1 1995 HD

    A cop from the moon is sent to the Earth, now possessed by motorcycle-riding "Mad Max"-like inhabitants, to stop a serum from being released that he...

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  • 2008
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    The Fall

    The Fall

    7.6 2008 HD

    In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a...

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  • 2003
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    Proteus

    Proteus

    5.9 2003 HD

    An exquisite period piece that skillfully explores the intersections of sex, race and politics takes place in 18th century South Africa, telling the...

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  • 1993
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    Bopha!

    Bopha!

    5.1 1993 HD

    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...

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  • 1999
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    Running Free

    Running Free

    5.6 1999 HD

    The tale of the extraordinary life and times of Lucky, a horse that was born in captivity but achieves his dream of running free with the help of a...

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  • 2010
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    Master Harold... and the Boys

    Master Harold... and the Boys

    5.3 2010 HD

    This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his caretaker,...

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  • 2006
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    Running Riot

    Running Riot

    6.5 2006 HD

    Tjokkie and Crispin decide to take a bet with their rival, Ratkas Koekemoor that Crispin can beat him in the Comrades marathon.His wife suspect he...

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  • 2012
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    Angus Buchan's Ordinary People

    Angus Buchan's Ordinary People

    6.7 2012 HD

    The plot follows the individual journeys of three ordinary South African men in the build up to their attendance of the 2010 Mighty Men Conference,...

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  • 1997
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    The Lost City

    The Lost City

    1 1997 HD

    After surviving a helicopter crash in the uncharted South African wilderness, two young men, a girl and a renegade thief discover an ancient city...

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  • 2001
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    The Meeksville Ghost

    The Meeksville Ghost

    5 2001 HD

    A cowboy ghost, one young man, a mother and son separated at his birth by a disapproving father, dream / time travel, a big fiery accident, a small...

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  • 1991
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    Pursuit

    Pursuit

    1 1991 HD

    A mercenary is hired to hunt down a group of rebel soldiers in Africa.

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  • 1994
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    Never Say Die

    Never Say Die

    6 1994 HD

    The peaceful existence of boat repairman Blake (Frank Zagarino) is destroyed when the Reverend James (Billy Drago) shows up with his disciples. Back...

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  • 1988
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    Blind Justice

    Blind Justice

    4 1988 HD

    Intrigue and injustice in Rhodesia

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  • 2008
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    Deadly Harvest

    Deadly Harvest

    6.5 2008 HD

    Marisa and Frank honeymoon in South Africa. A particularly favourable offer lures them to a lonely and run-down hotel. There, they are attacked by...

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  • 1989
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    Merchants of War

    Merchants of War

    3.6 1989 HD

    The heroes are best friends and commandos sent on a covert mission by the CIA. The mission is a success, but the two incur the wrath of the world's...

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  • 2015
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    Bow Tie

    Bow Tie

    6.2 2015 HD

    Don “Vossie” Vorster is a geeky bunny-hugger with a good heart. About to set off for Stellenbosch University, Vossie’s proud father...

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  • 1994
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    Project Shadowchaser II

    Project Shadowchaser II

    5.5 1994 HD

    Terrorists led by an android take over a nuclear plant and threaten to launch a missile at Washington. While the authorities desperately attempt to...

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  • 1989
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    The Revenger

    The Revenger

    4.8 1989 HD

    When saxophonist Mike Teller's brother Mackie is killed before being able to deliver $500,000 to mob boss Jack Fisher, Mike is arrested as an...

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  • 1990
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    Reason to Die

    Reason to Die

    5.2 1990 HD

    A cop sets up his girlfriend as a target in order to trap a serial killer.

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  • 2011
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    Beauty

    Beauty

    5.9 2011 HD

    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...

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  • 1997
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    Black Velvet Band

    Black Velvet Band

    7 1997 HD

    Period drama Black Velvet Band takes us back to Victorian times when a gang of petty crooks find themselves sentenced to transportation to Australia,...

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  • 1994
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    Cyborg Cop II

    Cyborg Cop II

    4.4 1994 HD

    Jack, a cop, loses his partner to a crazed terrorist during a hostage rescue sending the man to death row. What Jack doesn't know is that the...

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  • 1988
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    Red Scorpion

    Red Scorpion

    5.9 1988 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    Death Force

    Death Force

    1 1989 HD

    A private eye investigates fraud in the world of horse racing.

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  • 1995
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    Hearts & Minds

    Hearts & Minds

    1 1995 HD

    In the final days of the pro-apartheid government, bigoted policeman and assassin Andries Fourie is assigned an undercover job. His task is to pose...

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  • 1986
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    Torn Allegiance

    Torn Allegiance

    1 1986 HD

    Piet du Bois is a miner who wants to buy a farm. He meets a Bushman and his wife buying their land and expelling after. The Bushman exposes a legend...

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  • 1997
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    Dangerous Ground

    Dangerous Ground

    4.4 1997 HD

    Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their...

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  • 2016
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    Die Byl

    Die Byl

    8 2016 HD

    The unit specializes in the investigation of serial murders and is led by Van der Bijl, a former murder and robbery detective who gained fame for his...

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  • 2020
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    Projek Dina

    Projek Dina

    9 2020 HD

    A south African series that takes place in the work and life environment of the emergency response task force, where the pressure is sky high and the...

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  • 1993
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    WWE Raw

    WWE Raw

    6.7 1993 HD

    A regularly scheduled, live, year-round program featuring some of the biggest WWE Superstars.

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  • 2019
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    Die Spreeus

    Die Spreeus

    8 2019 HD

    Die Spreeus (The Starlings) is a South Africa, Afrikaans-language supernatural crime procedural series which tells the story of two fearless...

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