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Fons Rademakers

Fons Rademakers

Dutch actor (1920–2007)


Alphonse Marie "Fons" Rademakers (5 September 1920 – 22 February 2007) was a Dutch actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter.

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Career

His 1960 film Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Award.[1]

During a career spanning several decades he directed 11 films, including The Assault, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986,[2] and The Village on the River, nominated for the same award in 1959.[3] Making him both the first Dutch director to be nominated and win this award.

He granted a wide-ranging interview to Radio Netherlands in 1987.[4]

He died in 2007 in a Geneva hospital of emphysema, after the life-support machines were switched off at his request.[5]

Filmography


References

  1. "Berlinale 1961: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  2. "The 59th Academy Awards (1987) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  3. "Dutch director Rademakers dies". bbc.co.uk. February 23, 2007. Retrieved 2010-01-23.

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