Known For
Directing
Born
Sep 05, 1920
Died
Feb 22, 2007
Place of Birth
Roosendaal, Netherlands
Credits
27 titles
Fons Rademakers
Biography
Alphonse Marie "Fons" Rademakers (5 September 1920 – 22 February 2007) was a Dutch actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. His 1960 film Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Award. 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, and The Village on the River, nominated for the same award in 1959. 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. He died in 2007 in a Geneva hospital of emphysema, after the life-support machines were switched off at his request.
Known For
Filmography
Hollywood by Bike
Himself
The Rose Garden
Director
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Producer
The Assault
Director
All Rebels
Vrijdag
Chef van Jules
My Friend, or The Hidden Life of Jules Depraeter
Director
The Inheritance
Producer
Mysteries
Chief Constable
Gejaagd door de winst (of het A.B.C. van de moderne samenleving)
Postbode
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
Director
Lifespan
Prof. van Arp
Katie Tippel
Klant
Because of the Cats
Director
Camera Sutra (or the Pale Faces)
Markant: Elise Hoomans
Self
Daughters of Darkness
Mother
Arsène Lupin
Mullen
Mira
Notaris
Obsessions
Raoul Orlov
The Enemies
Willy
The Dance of the Heron
Director
Aah... Tamara
Like Two Drops of Water
Director
The Knife
Director
That Joyous Eve...
Director
Village by the River
Director