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.

Directed

1. The Assault (1986) — Director
2. Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (1976) — Director
3. Because of the Cats (1973) — Director
4. Village by the River (1958) — Director
5. Like Two Drops of Water (1963) — Director
6. Mira (1971) — Director
7. The Knife (1961) — Director
8. The Rose Garden (1989) — Director
9. That Joyous Eve... (1960) — Director
10. My Friend, or The Hidden Life of Jules Depraeter (1979) — Director
11. The Dance of the Heron (1966) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Daughters of Darkness (1971) — Mother
2. Katie Tippel (1975) — Klant
3. Arsène Lupin (1971) — Mullen
4. Mira (1971) — Notaris
5. Obsessions (1969) — Raoul Orlov
6. Mysteries (1978) — Chief Constable
7. Lifespan (1975) — Prof. van Arp
8. The Enemies (1968) — Willy
9. Vrijdag (1981) — Chef van Jules
10. All Rebels (1983)
11. Hollywood by Bike (1993) — Himself
12. Aah... Tamara (1965)
13. Camera Sutra (or the Pale Faces) (1973)
14. Gejaagd door de winst (of het A.B.C. van de moderne samenleving) (1977) — Postbode
15. Markant: Elise Hoomans (1972) — Self