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Robin Smith
Robin B Smith first appeared professionally in 1970 in the theater production 'Hadrian V11' whilst still at high school in Cape Town South Africa.
Two more professional appearances onstage, before leaving school, led to him attending the University of Cape Town Drama School, after completing his schooling at St Georges Grammar School.
Two and a half years into the 3-year course, he left Drama School to work at the Space Theater in Cape Town, founded by the author, Athol Fugard, actress Yvonne Bryceland, and her photographer husband, Brian Asbury, to raise public awareness during the dark years of Apartheid.
He moved to Johannesburg in 1979 to continue his career in the theatre and to start working in Television, which had only come to South Africa in 1976.
He broke into movies during the heyday of the B-grade action movies in the 1980s and was, for a short time in 1997, a wrestling manager for the then WWF, now WWE.
He was known in the World Wrestling Federation as The Commandant, who managed the South African Truth Commission for nine months in 1997.
(The Truth Commission is a professional wrestling stable in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and the United States Wrestling Association (USWA).
He has appeared in more than 100 feature films and TV shows, is an accomplished stage performer, and is a prolific voice artist.
He returned to Cape Town, his hometown, in 2006 and continues to work in film, TV, and theatre.
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