FILM DIRECTOR

Jamie Uys

1921 - 1996

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Jacobus Johannes Uys ( ayss; 30 May 1921 – 29 January 1996), better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director, best known for directing the 1980 comedy film The Gods Must Be Crazy and its 1989 sequel The Gods Must Be Crazy II. Uys also directed the 1974 documentary film Animals Are Beautiful People. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jamie Uys is the 902nd most popular film director (down from 857th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from South Africa (down from 83rd in 2019) and the most popular South African Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jamie Uys ranks 902 out of 2,041. Before him are Lucian Pintilie, Dante Ferretti, Andy Muschietti, Uwe Boll, Vladimir Gardin, and Ennio de Concini. After him are Rosa von Praunheim, Marc Forster, Aleksander Ford, Piotr Szulkin, Erika Lust, and Wanda Jakubowska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Jamie Uys ranks 277. Before him are Yevgeniya Rudneva, Chuck Connors, Rinaldo Martino, Bernard Lown, Ottavio Missoni, and Carlo Parola. After him are James Blish, Reinhard Mohn, Roberto Tucci, Nadezhda Popova, Ernst Haas, and Tommy Cooper. Among people deceased in 1996, Jamie Uys ranks 197. Before him are Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Johan Kraag, Kusuo Kitamura, Eno Raud, José Sasía, and Harry Andersson. After him are Don McNeill, Eva Cassidy, Alger Hiss, Alfredo Nobre da Costa, Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani, and Gabriel Alonso.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Jamie Uys ranks 102 out of 454. Before him are John Cranko (1927), Piet Retief (1780), Koos de la Rey (1847), Julius Malema (1981), Bruce Grobbelaar (1957), and Renée Schuurman (1939). After him are Claude Chevalley (1909), Hugh Masekela (1939), Ernest Leonard Johnson (1891), Alfred Swift (1931), Oscar Pistorius (1986), and Max Gluckman (1911).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In South Africa

Among film directors born in South Africa, Jamie Uys ranks 1. After him are Tosca Musk (1974), Gavin Hood (1963), Neill Blomkamp (1979), Roger Michell (1956), and Jonathan Liebesman (1976).

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