Education
Ross Devenish studied film-making in London.
Ross Devenish studied film-making in London.
He was one of the two directors engaged on about the World Cup Competition being held in England in 1966. received the Robert Flaherty Award from British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He started his career with documentaries, filming behind the Royalist lines in the Civil War in the Yemen, secretly entering and filming the mercenaries trapped in the besieged town of Bukava in the Congo after a failed coup, and the next year filming in Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive. He then spent the best part of a year in the United States making a film about the native Americans, called Now that the Buffalo"s Gone. Deciding to concentrate on his interest in drama, he began working with the dramatist Athol Fugard.
He directed three films with scripts by Fugard, including The Guest and Marigolds in August, in his native South Africa.
He now lives in Cape Town.. (producer).