- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- September 5, 1920
- Place of Birth
- Roosendaal, Netherlands
- Died
- February 22, 2007
Fons Rademakers
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
movieHollywood by Bike
1993 · Himself
movieThe Rose Garden
1989 · Director
movieDiary of a Mad Old Man
1987 · Producer
movieThe Assault
1986 · Director, Producer
movieAll Rebels
1983
movieVrijdag
1981 · Chef van Jules
movieMy Friend, or The Hidden Life of Jules Depraeter
1979 · Director, Producer
movieThe Inheritance
1978 · Producer
movieMysteries
1978 · Chief Constable
movieGejaagd door de winst (of het A.B.C. van de moderne samenleving)
1977 · Postbode
movieMax Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
1976 · Director, Producer
movieLifespan
1975 · Prof. van Arp
movieKatie Tippel
1975 · Klant
movieBecause of the Cats
1973 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieCamera Sutra (or the Pale Faces)
1973
Markant: Elise Hoomans
movieMarkant: Elise Hoomans
1972 · Self
movieDaughters of Darkness
1971 · Mother
tvArsène Lupin
1971 · Mullen
movieMira
1971 · Notaris, Director
movieObsessions
1969 · Raoul Orlov
movieThe Enemies
1968 · Willy
movieThe Dance of the Heron
1966 · Director, Producer
movieAah... Tamara
1965
movieLike Two Drops of Water
1963 · Director, Producer, Scenario Writer
movieThe Knife
1961 · Director
movieThat Joyous Eve...
1960 · Director, Idea, Scenario Writer
movieVillage by the River
1958 · Director, Writer