Fons Rademakers
Directing
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.
Filmography 25
Movies (24)
Hollywood by Bike1993Himself
The Rose Garden1989Directing
The Assault1986Directing
All Rebels1983
Vrijdag1981Chef van Jules
My Friend, or The Hidden Life of Jules Depraeter1979Directing
Mysteries1978Chief Constable
Gejaagd door de winst (of het A.B.C. van de moderne samenleving)1977Postbode
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company1976Directing
Lifespan1975Prof. van Arp
Katie Tippel1975Klant
Because of the Cats1973Directing
Camera Sutra (or the Pale Faces)1973- Markant: Elise Hoomans1972Self
Daughters of Darkness1971Mother
Mira1971Notaris
Obsessions1969Raoul Orlov
The Enemies1968Willy
The Dance of the Heron1966Directing
Aah... Tamara1965
Like Two Drops of Water1963Directing
The Knife1961Directing
That Joyous Eve...1960Directing
Village by the River1958Directing
Shows (1)
Arsène Lupin1971Mullen