Percival Rubens

{{Short description|South African film director, screenwriter and film producer}}

Percival Rubens (Krugersdorp, 29 December 1928 – Johannesburg, 13 June 2009) was a South African film director and scriptwriter.{{Cite book |last=Armes |first=Roy |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofafri0000arme/page/232/mode/2up?q=%22Percival+Rubens%22 |title=Dictionary of African filmmakers |date=2008 |publisher=Bloomington : Indiana University Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-253-35116-6}}

Filmography

= Films =

  • The Boy and the Mountain (short) (1958)
  • The Foster Gang (screenplay with Lee Marcus) (1964)
  • The Long Red Shadow (screenplay with Lee Marcus) (1968){{Cite book |last=Friedberg |first=Lionel |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Forever_in_My_Veins/QdwKEAAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Percival+Rubens&pg=PT73&printsec=frontcover |title=Forever in My Veins: How Film Led Me to the Mysterious World of the African Shaman |date=2021-01-29 |publisher=John Hunt Publishing |isbn=978-1-78904-392-1 |language=en}}
  • Strangers at Sunrise (screenplay with Lee Marcus) (1969),
  • Mister Kingstreet’s War / Heroes Die Hard (screenplay with George Harding) (1971)
  • Die Saboteurs (1974)
  • Mighty Man (1978)
  • The Demon (also screenwriter)) (1979)
  • Survival Zone (screenplay with Eric Brown) (1982)
  • Hostage (with Hanro Möhr) (1987)
  • Zone / Okavango (1989)
  • Sweet Murder (also screenwriter) (1990).

Awards

Posthumous Golden Horn Lifetime Achievement Award for Direction from SAFTA in 2010.{{Cite web |title=All the 2010 SAFTAs winners |url=https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/66/44985.html |access-date=2025-02-13 |website=Bizcommunity |language=en}}

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