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.
Movie Appearances
Vrijdag
as Chef van Jules
1981
Daughters of Darkness
as Mother
1971
Mira
as Notaris
1971
All Rebels
1983
The Enemies
as Willy
1968
Mysteries
as Chief Constable
1978
Obsessions
as Raoul Orlov
1969
Hollywood by Bike
as Himself
1993
Katie Tippel
as Klant
1975
Lifespan
as Prof. van Arp
1975
Aah... Tamara
1965
Camera Sutra (or the Pale Faces)
1973
