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.
Acting
Movie
Daughters of Darkness
as Mother
1971
Movie
Katie Tippel
as Klant
1975
TV
Arsène Lupin
as Mullen
1971
Movie
Mira
as Notaris
1971
Movie
Obsessions
as Raoul Orlov
1969
Movie
Mysteries
as Chief Constable
1978
Movie
Lifespan
as Prof. van Arp
1975
Movie
The Enemies
as Willy
1968
Movie
Vrijdag
as Chef van Jules
1981
Movie
All Rebels
1983
Movie
Hollywood by Bike
as Himself
1993
Movie
Aah... Tamara
1965
Movie
Camera Sutra (or the Pale Faces)
1973
Movie
Gejaagd door de winst (of het A.B.C. van de moderne samenleving)
as Postbode
1977
Crew
Movie
The Assault
Director
1986
Movie
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
Director
1976
Movie
Because of the Cats
Director
1973
Movie
Village by the River
Director
1958
Movie
Like Two Drops of Water
Director
1963
Movie
Mira
Director
1971
Movie
The Knife
Director
1961
Movie
The Rose Garden
Director
1989
Movie
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Producer
1987
Movie
That Joyous Eve...
Director
1960
Movie
My Friend, or The Hidden Life of Jules Depraeter
Director
1979
Movie
The Dance of the Heron
Director
1966