Pierre de Wet
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Died24 June 1990 (aged 80)[1]
OccupationsDirector, actor, producer, screenwriter
Pierre de Wet | |
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 Gert van den Bergh, Paula Styger, Pierre de Wet and Anna Neethling-Pohl in a scene from Sita's Die Goeie ou tyd (1944). | |
| Born | Pierre Stephanus de Wet[1] 22 August 1909[1] |
| Died | 24 June 1990 (aged 80)[1] |
| Occupations | Director, actor, producer, screenwriter |
Pierre Stephanus de Wet (1909–1990)[1][2] was a film director, producer and writer.[3] He is considered the father of the Afrikaans film industry. He established the Afrikaans film industry almost single-handedly with meager means and produced a total of 21 Afrikaans films during his lifetime.[4] De Wet was also the creator of Kom Saam Vanaand (1949), the first ever South African and Afrikaans musical.[5]
He died of a heart attack in a Johannesburg hospital in 1990 at the age of 80.
