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Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard OIS is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in South African English. He is best known for his political plays opposing the system of apartheid and for the 2005 Oscar-winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood. Fugard was an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego. For the academic year 2000–2001, he was the IU Class of 1963 Wells Scholar Professor at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana. He is the recipient of many awards, honours, and honorary degrees, including the 2005 Order of Ikhamanga in Silver "for his excellent contribution and achievements in the theatre" from the government of South Africa. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Born
Saturday, 11 June 1932
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1994 |
The Road to Mecca | Rev. Marius Byleveld | 1991 |
The Killing Fields | Dr. Sundesval | 1984 |
Gandhi | General Smuts / General Jan Christiaan Smuts | 1982 |
Book Four | Self - Interviewee | 1982 |
Marigolds in August | Paulus Olifant | 1980 |
Meetings with Remarkable Men | Professor Skridlov | 1979 |
The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais | Eugène Marais | 1977 |
Boesman and Lena | Boesman | 1973 |
Theatre 625 | Morris | 1964 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1994 |
The Road to Mecca | Rev. Marius Byleveld | 1991 |
The Killing Fields | Dr. Sundesval | 1984 |
Gandhi | General Smuts / General Jan Christiaan Smuts | 1982 |
Book Four | Self - Interviewee | 1982 |
Marigolds in August | Paulus Olifant | 1980 |
Meetings with Remarkable Men | Professor Skridlov | 1979 |
The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais | Eugène Marais | 1977 |
Boesman and Lena | Boesman | 1973 |
Theatre 625 | Morris | 1964 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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The Road to Mecca | 1991 |