Cast & creator
Athol Fugard
Best known for Arena, BBC Play of the Month, Playhouse
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.
26
film credits
5
television credits
14
1964–2020 · acting roles
7.1
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (31)
Showing 31 of 31 credits
Arena
1975
BBC Play of the Month
Writer
1965
Playhouse
Writer
1974
Theatre 625
Morris
1964Theatre 625
Writer
1964
Gandhi
General Jan Christiaan Smuts
1982
The Killing Fields
Dr. Sundesval
1984
Tsotsi
Novel
2005
Master Harold... and the Boys
Theatre Play
2010
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Professor Skridlov
1979Mille Miglia
Writer
1968
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Self
2012
'Master Harold'... and the Boys
Author
1985
Boesman and Lena
Theatre Play
2000Boesman and Lena
Writer
2000The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais
Eugène Marais
1977The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais
Writer
1977
National Theatre Live: 'Master Harold'... and the boys
Writer
2019
Marigolds in August
Paulus Olifant
1980Marigolds in August
Writer
1980
The Public's Right to Know
Self
1974The Road to Mecca
Rev. Marius Byleveld
1991The Road to Mecca
Writer
1991The Road to Mecca
Director
1991
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
Self (archive footage)
1994
The Space: Theatre of Survival
as Self(rumored)
2019A Sizwe Bansi Workshop
Himself
1981
Sizwe Bansi Is Dead
Writer
1974
"Master Harold" ...and the Boys
Writer
2020Boesman and Lena
Boesman
1973Boesman and Lena
Writer
1973