David James (actor, born 1972) David James (actor, born 1972) David James (born 28 October 1972) is a South African film, theatre, and television actor known mainly for playing the villainous Koobus Venter in the 2009 Oscar-nominated science fiction film "". He is also known to South African audiences for his 2004-2006 appearance as "Mad Dog" on the long-running soap opera "Isidingo", for his portrayal as Joel Joffe in the large-scale and well-received 2010 and 2011 stage productions of "Rivonia Trial", and for his current role as radio station manager Hermanus Meyer on the soap opera "Rhythm City". James grew up in Paarl, Western Cape,
Sid James here . (Similarly, other regular members of the Carry On cast abbreviated their real first names in the films: Bernard Bresslaw was Bernie and Barbara Windsor Babs.) There were "Carry On" films in which James played characters who were not called Sid or Sidney: "Carry On Constable" (1960), in which he played Sergeant Frank Wilkins; "Carry On Henry" (1971), a parody of the TV series "The Six Wives of Henry VIII"; "Carry On Abroad" (1972), in which James's character was named Vic Flange; and "Carry On Dick" (1974), a parody version of the legend of the highwayman Dick Turpin. In