Athol Fugard
Acting
June 11, 1932
Died March 8, 2025 (92 years old)
13
Acting Credits
1
Directed
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
Theatre 625
Morris
Gandhi
General Jan Christiaan Smuts
The Killing Fields
Dr. Sundesval
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Professor Skridlov
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Self
The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais
Eugène Marais
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
Self (archive footage)
The Space: Theatre of Survival
as Self(rumored)
Filmography
The Space: Theatre of Survival
2019
as as Self(rumored)
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012
as Self
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
1994
as Self (archive footage)
8
The Road to Mecca
1991
as Rev. Marius Byleveld
5.5
The Killing Fields
1984
as Dr. Sundesval
7.5
Gandhi
1982
as General Jan Christiaan Smuts
7.6
A Sizwe Bansi Workshop
1981
as Himself
Marigolds in August
1980
as Paulus Olifant
8
Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979
as Professor Skridlov
6.7
The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais
1977
as Eugène Marais
7.5
The Public's Right to Know
1974
as Self
Boesman and Lena
1973
as Boesman
10
Theatre 625
1964
as Morris
7.2