Director
Fons Rademakers
106 years · Roosendaal, Netherlands · 25 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 25
Hollywood by Bike
1993 · Himself
The Rose Garden
1989 · Director
On Philo
Diary of a Mad Old Man
1987 · Producer
The Assault
1986 · Director, Producer
All Rebels
1983 · Actor
Vrijdag
1981 · Chef van Jules
My Friend, or The Hidden Life of Jules Depraeter
1979 · Director, Producer
The Inheritance
1978 · Producer
Mysteries
1978 · Chief Constable
On Philo
Gejaagd door de winst (of het A.B.C. van de moderne samenleving)
1977 · Postbode
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
1976 · Director, Producer
Lifespan
1975 · Prof. van Arp
Katie Tippel
1975 · Klant
On Plex
Because of the Cats
1973 · Director, Writer
Camera Sutra (or the Pale Faces)
1973 · Actor
Daughters of Darkness
1971 · Mother
On Plex
Mira
1971 · Notaris, Director
Obsessions
1969 · Raoul Orlov
The Enemies
1968 · Willy
The Dance of the Heron
1966 · Director, Producer
Aah... Tamara
1965 · Actor
Like Two Drops of Water
1963 · Director, Producer
The Knife
1961 · Director
That Joyous Eve...
1960 · Director