Biography
Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard (June 11, 1932 – March 8, 2025) was a South African playwright, novelist, actor and director. Widely considered South Africa's foremost playwright, he is best remembered for his anti-apartheid plays such as "Master Harold"...and the Boys and Blood Knot.
Known For
Complete Filmography
"Master Harold" ...and the Boys
2020
Writer
A poignant coming of age story and exploration of a friendship between a young white boy, and the two adult black men he has grown up around, against ...
The Space: Theatre of Survival
2019
as as Self(rumored)
When everything about you falls one man decides that theatre is the key, and the way to begin to unify a people. A film about the life and times of Th...
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012
as Self
Director Tony Palmer tells the incredible life story of Athol Fugard, the prolific playwright, novelist, and director who exposed the horrors of South...
Master Harold... and the Boys
2010
Theatre Play
This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his caretaker, Sam....
Tsotsi
2005
Novel
A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. N...
Boesman and Lena
2000
Theatre Play, Writer
Intense love and hate bring a man and woman through personal tragedy.
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
1994
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid.
The Road to Mecca
1991
as Rev. Marius Byleveld
An eldery lady, living in (litterally) the middle if nowhere, and fed up with small minded apartheid ideology starts escaping into her own world of sc...
The Road to Mecca
1991
Writer, Director
An eldery lady, living in (litterally) the middle if nowhere, and fed up with small minded apartheid ideology starts escaping into her own world of sc...
'Master Harold'... and the Boys
1985
Author
When Harold, a young white man, learns that his alcoholic, handicapped father is returning home, his frustration turns into racist viciousness against...
The Killing Fields
1984
as Dr. Sundesval
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American ...
Gandhi
1982
as General Jan Christiaan Smuts
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian ...
A Sizwe Bansi Workshop
1981
as Himself
The play, Sizwe Bansi is Dead, follows the main character, Sizwe, as he writes to his wife after an unsuccessful search for a new job and better life ...
Marigolds in August
1980
as Paulus Olifant
Marigolds in August was written by Athol Fugard, who in the early 1980s was South Africa's most celebrated playwright. Fugard's intense political opin...
Marigolds in August
1980
Writer
Marigolds in August was written by Athol Fugard, who in the early 1980s was South Africa's most celebrated playwright. Fugard's intense political opin...
Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979
as Professor Skridlov
The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais
1977
as Eugène Marais
An episode in the Life of Eugène Marais
The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais
1977
Writer
An episode in the Life of Eugène Marais
Sizwe Bansi is Dead
1974
Writer
Two Black South Africans discover what it means to lose their passbooks, which they must carry yo prove their identity during the apartheid era
The Public's Right to Know
1974
as Self
A documentary in which Kenneth Griffith, actor and filmmaker, endeavors to find the truth behind the banning of two of his films, one on the life of M...
Boesman and Lena
1973
as Boesman
A portrait of a marginalised couple evicted by forced removal in apartheid South Africa.
Boesman and Lena
1973
Writer
A portrait of a marginalised couple evicted by forced removal in apartheid South Africa.
Mille Miglia
1968
Writer
In 1955 Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson won the Mille Miglia, one of the toughest races in the calendar.This play is about the two men, and the qual...