{{Infobox person | name = Percival Rubens | image = | birth_date ={{birth date|1929|12|29|df=y}} | birth_place = Krugersdorp | nationality = | citizenship = South Africa | occupation = Film director,<br>Screenwriter,<br>Film producer | years active = }} {{Short description|South African film director, screenwriter and film producer}} '''Percival Rubens''' (Krugersdorp, 29 December 1928 – Johannesburg, 13 June 2009) was a South African film director and scriptwriter.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Armes |first=Roy |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofafri0000arme/page/232/mode/2up?q=%22Percival+Rubens%22 |title=Dictionary of African filmmakers |date=2008 |publisher=Bloomington : Indiana University Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-253-35116-6}}</ref>
== Filmography == === Films === * ''The Boy and the Mountain'' (short) (1958) * ''The Foster Gang'' (screenplay with Lee Marcus) (1964) * ''The Long Red Shadow'' (screenplay with Lee Marcus) (1968)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Friedberg |first=Lionel |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Forever_in_My_Veins/QdwKEAAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Percival+Rubens&pg=PT73&printsec=frontcover |title=Forever in My Veins: How Film Led Me to the Mysterious World of the African Shaman |date=2021-01-29 |publisher=John Hunt Publishing |isbn=978-1-78904-392-1 |language=en}}</ref> * ''Strangers at Sunrise'' (screenplay with Lee Marcus) (1969), * ''Mister Kingstreet’s War /'' ''Heroes Die Hard'' (screenplay with George Harding) (1971) * ''Die Saboteurs'' (1974) * ''Mighty Man'' (1978) * ''The Demon'' (also screenwriter)) (1979) * ''Survival Zone'' (screenplay with Eric Brown) (1982) * ''Hostage'' (with Hanro Möhr) (1987) * ''Zone / Okavango'' (1989) * ''Sweet Murder'' (also screenwriter) (1990).
== Awards ==
Posthumous Golden Horn Lifetime Achievement Award for Direction from SAFTA in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |title=All the 2010 SAFTAs winners |url=https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/66/44985.html |access-date=2025-02-13 |website=Bizcommunity |language=en}}</ref>
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