Ramses Shaffy
Biography
Ramses Shaffy (1933–2009) was a Dutch actor and singer. Born near Paris, his Egyptian diplomat father and Polish noble mother separated before he was born and he was adopted by a Dutch family at a young age. He became popular during the 1960s and made a theatre comeback from alcoholism in the early 1990s, playing Don Quichotte in the musical The Man of la Mancha. His most famous songs include Zing, vecht, huil, bid, lach, werk en bewonder (Sing, fight, cry, pray, laugh, work and admire), We zullen doorgaan (We will go on), and Laat me (Leave me be). His website describes Shaffy as ‘a Dutch-Franco-Polish-Russian-Egyptian mixture of Tom Waits and Frank Sinatra’.
Movie Appearances
De nietsnut
as Richard Kesselaar
1994
Schermerhoorn
1967
All Rebels
1983
Nitwits
as Joel Palsma
1987
Confessions of Loving Couples
as Frank Jansen
1967
Anna, Child of the Daffodils
as Gerrit
1975
The Whipping Cream Hero
as Manuel
1967
Precious
as Psychiater
1991
The Good Hope
as Simon
1986
The Manneken Pis Case
as Karel Vos
1960
Cha Cha
1979
Nachtvlinder
as Walko van Haland
1999
An Outsider
as Acteur Merlijn
1967
