Film producer, Jamie Uys passes away

Date: 29 Jan 1996
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

Johannes Jacobus Uys, more popularly known as Jamie Uys, was an internationally acclaimed South African film director who made 24 films. Prizes for his work included the 1981 Grand Prix at the Festival International du Film de Comedy Vevey for 'The Gods Must be Crazy' and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association award for best documentary in 1974 for 'Beautiful People'. 'The Gods Must be Crazy' enjoyed three years of uninterrupted screening in the United States of America. Jamie Uys passed away on 29 January 1996, Johannesburg, South Africa from a heart attack.

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01Hull, T., Jamie Uys biography, from Internet Movie Database, [online], Available at www.imdb.com [Accessed: 23 January 2014]

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