Casper de Vries
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Casper De Vries is an South African actor, comedian, entertainer, composer, director, producer and author of sketches famous for his Afrikaans one man shows.
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[edit] Background
He was born in Pretoria on 1 June, 1964 and went on to study drama at the University of Stellenbosch.
His shows are very popular amongst Afrikaans-speaking South Africans and he even held shows in the London Palladium, where a lot of Afrikaners reside.
[edit] Live Shows
His professional career started in 1986 with "Hallo Suid-Afrika" (Hello South Africa), and has been on-stage year after year until he started performing his one-man shows in 1997 where he started gaining major success. Here is a list of Casper's one man shows:
- Walgwors (1997)
- Wetter (1998)
- Toet & Taal (1999)
- Laat Daar Lag Wees (2000)/(2001)
- DiMensie (2002)
- Die Hits (2003)
- Snaaks Genoeg (2004)
- My Wêreld (2005)
- Mondig (2007)
[edit] Characters
Casper has characters that he portrays himself in his live shows and on TV:
Oom Kallie Marie
An old Afrikaner that represents the old Boere-Folk and is very old fashioned. Married to Tant Anna. Has a gay son from a previous marriage called Karel-Jan.
Greetje Appelmoes
A Dutch woman who always gives advice. Made her debut on Devries. Has three children called Mooitje, Booitje and Vrooitje.
Montelle Jansen van Rensburg
A Homosexual ex-flight attendant for SAA. Made his debut as Mara in the show Toet en Taal.
Blertsie du Toit
A Mentally disturbed young boy. Made his debut in the Haak en Steek series on the Casper Rasper Show.
Hanno Gelderblom
A man from Kempton Park that represents the common Afrikaner, drinks Klipdrift from the bottle and makes weird noises. Father of Orpa Gelderblom who sang a duet with him on Noot vir Noot. Made his debut on the Casper Rasper Show as the manager of an old-age girlgroup called Die Jerry-Hattricks.
Patience Candida April
Ex-whore and retired alcoholic from Cape Town. Lost her father at a young age. Has a son called Moses. Made her debut in a sketch called Hoer ry die boere on the Casper Rasper Show.
Renier Ferreira
Head of the VKTA and organizer of Ikayezi. Made his debut on My Wêreld.
Gizelle Serfontein
News reader, presenter and porn star.
[edit] Movies
He starred in two Leon Schuster movies , "Oh Schucks here comes UNTAG" (1990) playing Joop van den Ploes and George Weedle in "Sweet 'n Short" (1991). He also starred as Adrian Fluit in "Soweto Green" (1995)
[edit] Television
He wrote, produced and starred in a 3-series comedy variety show, "Die Casper Rasper Show" (2001 - 2003) and a soapie-spoof "Haak & Steek" (2003/04). More recently he became the host of "Doen met 'n Miljoen", the Afrikaans version of "Deal or no Deal". In the early nineties he also hosted an America's Funniest Home Videos-style show called "Devries".
[edit] Controversy
In 2004 an alleged radical right-wing activism Afrikaner group called the "Boeremag" was on trial for terror attacks in South Africa. During the trial plans to blow up De Vries together with eight other individuals was revealed. The group is quoted for saying that the reason for this plan was because De Vries "was not on the right path".[1]
