Athol Fugard

AKA:
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1932-06-11

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.

Crew Roles

Tsotsi
Novel
Boesman and Lena
Writer
'Master Harold'... and the Boys
Author
The Road to Mecca
Director
The Road to Mecca
Writer
Marigolds in August
Writer
The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais
Writer
Mille Miglia
Writer
Master Harold... and the Boys
Theatre Play
Boesman and Lena
Theatre Play
"Master Harold" ...and the Boys
Writer
Sizwe Bansi is Dead
Writer
Boesman and Lena
Writer
Writer
Writer
Writer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {13}

General Jan Christiaan Smuts

1982-12-01 7.56

Gandhi

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 independence. Faced with armed resistance from the ...
Genre :Drama, History

Paulus Olifant

1980-12-31 0

Marigolds in August

Marigolds in August was written by Athol Fugard, who in the early 1980s was South Africa's most celebrated playwright. Fugard's intense political opinions were enough for the USSR to object to Marigol ...
Genre :

Himself

1981-01-01 0

A Sizwe Bansi Workshop

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 for his family. This film places the viewer in the ...
Genre :Documentary

as Self(rumored)

2019-06-07 0

The Space: Theatre of Survival

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 The Space theatre (a.k.a. 'The Space', 'Die Ruimte' ...
Genre :Documentary

Professor Skridlov

1979-08-05 6.5

Meetings with Remarkable Men

The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance. ...
Genre :Drama

Self (archive footage)

1994-02-18 0

In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid

A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid. ...
Genre :Documentary

Eugène Marais

1977-09-25 6

The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais

An episode in the Life of Eugène Marais ...
Genre :

Boesman

1973-11-22 0

Boesman and Lena

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

Rev. Marius Byleveld

1991-03-10 1

The Road to Mecca

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 sculpting in her own back yard and along with her (c ...
Genre :

Dr. Sundesval

1984-11-23 7.459

The Killing Fields

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pul ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

Self

2012-05-28 0

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard

Director Tony Palmer tells the incredible life story of Athol Fugard, the prolific playwright, novelist, and director who exposed the horrors of South Africa's apartheid system for the entire world to ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1974-01-01 0

The Public's Right to Know

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 Michael Collins and the other on Badon Powell. Feat ...
Genre :Documentary

Morris

1964-05-03 7.2

Theatre 625

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and ...
Genre :Drama