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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1951-05-21

Place of Birth

Vereeniging, South Africa

Leon Schuster

Biography

Leon Ernest "Schucks" Schuster (born 21 May 1951, Vereeniging) is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, prankster and singer. After studying at the University of the Orange Free State and teaching for two years, he joined the SABC, where he made the Afrikaans phone-prank radio series Vrypostige Mikrofoon with Fanus Rautenbach. His candid-camera feature You Must Be Joking! (1986) began a long run of hidden-camera and slapstick comedies, including Oh Schucks...! Here Comes U.N.T.A.G., There's a Zulu on My Stoep and Mr Bones (2001), his most successful film. He also recorded a string of best-selling Afrikaans and rugby albums.

Known for

Republiek van Zoid Afrika

Republiek van Zoid Afrika

Karen Zoid's talk show with comic sketches, visits with influential and exceptional people, and music that will take your breath away.

Koppieteefontein

Koppieteefontein

A cup of tea may be just the thing that lets people open themselves up to a good, honest, and friendly chat.

Yankee Zulu

Yankee Zulu

Two South African boys, one white, Rhino, and one black, Zulu, go their separate ways after an incident. Many years later, they meet up again as adults, when one, after living for years in the United States, is now a wanted criminal. The two end up being a part of a madcap chase involving a check for a large amount of lottery money, pursued by Gen. Diehard and Rhino's ex-wife Rowena, who was the cause of the rift between the two protagonists.

Mr. Bones 2: Back from the Past

Mr. Bones 2: Back from the Past

Hekule, the King of Kuvukiland, is given a gemstone by the dying Kunji Balanadin. The stone is cursed and causes Hekule to become possessed by the spirit of the mischievous Kunji. It is up Mr. Bones, the royal witch doctor to cure his King and get rid of this cursed stone by returning the gem to its home in an Indian fishing village.

Mr. Bones

Mr. Bones

A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament.

Mad Buddies

Mad Buddies

Two sworn enemies, Boetie (Leon Schuster) and Beast (Kenneth Nkosi) are forced to do a road trip together on foot, only to discover that they have been conned into being part of a TV reality show.

Mr. Bones 3: Son of Bones

Mr. Bones 3: Son of Bones

Sixty years ago, in an obscure corner of Africa, the only survivor of a light aircraft crash was a baby boy. Perhaps it was the miracle of his survival that gave him the gift of “sight,” and he became a Sangoma, the seer of the Kuvuki tribe, interpreting the wishes of The Great One through the throwing of the bones. Hence his name, “Bones.” Today, at an advanced age but still fit in mind and body, his mission is to pass on his wisdom to his son, Mathambo, and guide him into manhood – a mission doomed to fail because of both of their obsessive personalities.

Oh Schucks.... It's Schuster!

Oh Schucks.... It's Schuster!

In a series of short skits, Leon Schuster uses candid camera and several disguises to stitch up the general public of South Africa

Oh Schuks... I'm Gatvol!

Oh Schuks... I'm Gatvol!

Schucks is back and this time he's Gatvol. The rampant crime rate and unprecedented violence have finally become too much and Schucks together with his sidekick, little Alf, is joining the chicken run to Australia. However this promises to be the flight of his life given that the evil despot Samoosa Woestyn is stalking him.

Oh Schucks...! Here Comes UNTAG

Oh Schucks...! Here Comes UNTAG

Kwagga Robertse owns a farm shop in the fictional Southern African country of Nambabwe and usually cons foreign tourists by pretending to kill a lion, thus earning him the nickname 'Urumbo' (Lion Killer) from the country's natives. Kwagga is upset when the UN sends a platoon of incompetent soldiers with the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (U.N.T.A.G.), to monitor the peace process, and ensure free and fair elections after the Nambabwean War for Independence. The U.N.T.A.G's American leader, Major Bradick D. Mackay and his second-in-command, Captain Zapman are offered a diamond worth a lot of money in the U.S., and they must pay 200,000 USD to Duan Robertse, Kwagga's competitive brother trying to buy a farm left to them by their dead father.

Mama Jack

Mama Jack

Set in Cape Town, South Africa Mama Jack is the story of Jack Theron, an ordinary person working on a film set. However, his movie producer boss hates him and wants to remove him from the production of the film. In a bid to get rid of Jack, the producer spikes his drink with a drug at a glamorous function, and before long Jack has got himself on the wrong side of the law. While on the run, Jack turns to his friend, a make-up artist, who turns him into "Mama Bolo". Mama Bolo soon finds “herself” employed by the producer’s fiancée, Angela. A series of deceptions and misunderstandings pile up and comic mayhem ensues with Jack Theron becoming another character, Doctor Donald, a tramp from Scotland.

Sweet 'n Short

Sweet 'n Short

A disgraced sports presenter falls victim to an accidental head trauma and slips into a coma. He awakens months later to find that South Africa was not as he left it, he is now in the New South Africa, and his multimillion-Rand idea has been stolen from beneath him.

Schuks! Your Country Needs You

Schuks! Your Country Needs You

Leon Schuster (Schuks) returns to prank unsuspecting South Africans. Helping him round up everyday victims are Rob van Vuuren, Lare Brink, and all-time favourite Alfred Ntombela.

Panic Mechanic

Panic Mechanic

When Hanky Pranky (alias Schucks), star of a candid camera TV show, loses his job to affirmative action, he applies for a job at a stress academy. It´s not long before Schucks discovers his new boss, Jack Paddaman, is as crooked as they come, but it´s too late: the employment contract is signed and sealed.A year passes, and Schucks is no better off. However, his candid camera videos, which poke fun at all sectors of post-1994 South Africa, prove a big hit with stressed-out government ministers. When the president asks Paddaman to make a movie to benefit street children, Schucks and his pals do all the hard work while Paddaman plans how he can get hold of the profits from the video sales. Add a scatterbrained secretary, a lovelorn traffic cop and a cunning street child and you have a roll-in-the aisles comedy with a distinctly South African flavour.

Frank and Fearless

Frank and Fearless

In an attempt to stop rhino poaching, railway chef Sonny Frank and a ten year old boy called Fearless kidnap the ambassador of a South-East Asian country.