South African/Australian novelist and advertising director, Arthur Bryce Courtney, the author who wrote "The Power of One," first published in 1989, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on 14 August, 1933. He was one of Australia's best selling authors. He died in Canberra, Australia on 22 November 2012, aged 79.
Sir John Gielgud and Daniel Craig appeared in Elizabeth (1998). This was Craig's first movie, and Elizabeth was Gielgud's last.
The first South African role for Morgan Freeman, who played Nelson Mandela in Invictus (2009).