1. Jacobus Johannes Uys, 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.
13 Facts About Jamie Uys
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Jamie Uys then married Hettie, a fellow mathematics teacher, and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala River.
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Jamie Uys was later appointed local magistrate and Justice of the Peace.
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Jamie Uys made his debut as a film director in 1951 with the Afrikaans-language film Daar doer in die bosveld.
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Jamie Uys founded a company with Tommie Meyer but later they split up.
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Jamie Uys received the 1981 Grand Prix at the Festival International du Film de Comedie of Vevey for The Gods Must Be Crazy, and in 1974 he received the Hollywood Foreign Press Association award for best documentary for Animals Are Beautiful People.
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Jamie Uys is credited with this legend of animals getting intoxicated on fermented marula fruits.
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Jamie Uys had earlier made another film set substantially in the Kalahari Desert: Lost in the Desert, which tells the story of 8-year-old Dirkie Hayes's efforts to survive in the desert after surviving a plane crash, whilst his father Anton mounts increasingly desperate efforts to find him.
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Jamie Uys's other well-known film was Funny People in 1977, which was a comedy in the same genre as Candid Camera in the United States, putting unsuspecting people in embarrassing positions.
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Jamie Uys loved the outdoors and to get away from the hubbub of Johannesburg where he lived.
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Jamie Uys would ride around on his bicycle to get to interesting spots in the veld.
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Jamie Uys was a keen builder of model aeroplanes, on which he spent many hours during his Paradise Beach visits.
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Jamie Uys died of a heart attack in 1996 at the age of 74.