Patrick Beattie Mynhardt (12 June 1932 in Bethulie, Free State, South Africa – 25 October 2007 in London, England) was a well-known South African film and theatre actor.
He died in London, where he was performing in his one-man show Boy from Bethulie at the Jermyn Street Theatre in the West End.
[2] The son of Johannes Tobias Mynhardt, a district surgeon and Elizabeth Beattie, an Irish emigrant, Patrick was born in Bethulie in the Free State.
He studied drama at Rhodes University before joining the National Theatre Organisation in 1953 and touring South Africa.
[2] Performing on stage and for the BBC in Britain, he worked with actors including Peter Sellers, Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quinn, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, Michael Caine and Judi Dench.