In conversation with Robin B Smith, Robin Beauclerk Smith is a South African actor whose professional career began in theatre whilst still in high school in 1970. After school, he attended the University of Cape Town Drama School and worked at The Space Theatre in Cape Town doing Socio-Political shows during apartheid. He moved to Johannesburg in 1979 to continue his career in theatre and get into television, which was based there. He broke into movies during the heyday of the B grade action movies in the 1980s and was for a short time in 1997, a wrestling manager for the then WWF now WWE. He was known in the World Wrestling Federation as The Commandant, who managed the South African Truth Commission for 9 months in 1997.

Born in South Africa, he is a film and stage actor, as well as a voice artist. He appeared in many South African and international movies throughout the 1980s and 1990s and is still working as an actor, voice artist and director, based in Cape Town South Africa.

Robin first appeared professionally in 1970 in the theatre production "Hadrian V11" whilst still at high school in Cape Town South Africa. Two more professional appearances on stage before leaving school led to him attending the University of Cape Town Drama school after completing his schooling at St. Georges Grammar School. Two and a half years into the 3-year course, he left Drama School to work at the Space Theatre in Cape Town, founded by the author Athol Fugard, actress Yvonne Bryceland, and her photographer husband Brian Asbury to raise public awareness during the dark years of Apartheid. He moved to Johannesburg in 1979 to continue his career in the theatre and to try to break into TV, which only first came to South Africa in 1976. He has appeared in more than 100 feature films and TV shows and is an accomplished stage performer and a prolific voice artist. He returned to Cape Town, his home town, in 2006, and continues to work in film, TV and theatre.