Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard

1932-06-11 23 Credits

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.

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"Master Harold" ...and the Boys

"Master Harold" ...and the Boys

2020

Writer

6.0
Writing

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

The Space: Theatre of Survival

2019

as as Self(rumored)

Acting

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

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard

2012

as Self

Acting

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

Master Harold... and the Boys

2010

Theatre Play

5.3

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

Tsotsi

2005

Novel

7.0

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

Boesman and Lena

2000

Theatre Play, Writer

5.0
Writing

Intense love and hate bring a man and woman through personal tragedy.

In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid

In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid

1994

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

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

1.0
Acting

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

1.0
Writing Directing

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

'Master Harold'... and the Boys

1985

Author

6.5

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

The Killing Fields

1984

as Dr. Sundesval

7.5
Acting

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

Gandhi

1982

as General Jan Christiaan Smuts

7.6
Acting

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

Acting

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

Marigolds in August

1980

as Paulus Olifant

Acting

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

Marigolds in August

1980

Writer

Writing

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

Meetings with Remarkable Men

1979

as Professor Skridlov

6.4
Acting

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

6.0
Acting

An episode in the Life of Eugène Marais

The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais

1977

Writer

6.0
Writing

An episode in the Life of Eugène Marais

Sizwe Bansi is Dead

Sizwe Bansi is Dead

1974

Writer

Writing

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

The Public's Right to Know

1974

as Self

Acting

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

Acting

A portrait of a marginalised couple evicted by forced removal in apartheid South Africa.

Boesman and Lena

1973

Writer

Writing

A portrait of a marginalised couple evicted by forced removal in apartheid South Africa.

Mille Miglia

1968

Writer

Writing

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...