Biography for
Fons Rademakers

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Date of Birth

5 September 1920, Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

Date of Death

22 February 2007, Geneva, Switzerland (emphysema)

Birth Name

Alphonse Marie Rademakers

Mini Biography

Fons Rademakers, born on 5 September 1920 in Roosendaal, started his career as actor and theatre director.

"Dorp Aan De Rivier" (1958), the first movie he directed, was also the first Dutch movie ever nominated for an Academy award (Oscar). In 1986 Rademakers won the Foreign Language Oscar for "De Aanslag", after a novel by Harry Mulisch. In Flanders Rademakers' 1971 movie version of Stijn Streuvels' novel "De Teloorgang van de Waterhoek" caused a shock in conservative circles, especially the Dutch actress Willeke van Ammelrooy's performance as the "Mira". In 1976, Rademakers directed the ultimate Multatuli-classic "Max Havelaar (of de koffieveilingen van de Nederlandsche handelsmaatschappij)". Rademakers' forte were (Dutch language) literary master pieces, such as "Als twee druppels water" (1963, after Hermans' "De donkere kamer van Damocles") or, less acclaimed, "Mijn Vriend" (1979, linked to the then notorious Jespers trial). The English-language drama "The Rose Garden" was his last movie, in 1989.

He also produced his films, as well as his spouse Lili Veenmans's. On February 22th in 2007, he died, aged 86, in a hospital in Geneva (Switzerland), near his French domicile Thoiry, from pulmonary emphysema.

IMDb Mini Biography By: KGF Vissers

Spouse

Lili Rademakers

(? - 22 February 2007) (his death) 2 children

Trivia

Former assistant to Vittorio De Sica, Jean Renoir, and Charles Crichton.

Children: sons Fons and Alfred.

He was the first Dutch filmmaker to be nominated for an Academy Award, for his 1958 debut feature film "Dorp aan de Rivier" ("Village on the River").

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