Fons Rademakers
- Directing
- September 5, 1920 · Roosendaal, Netherlands
- February 22, 2007
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Hollywood by Bike · Self
- The Rose Garden · Director
- Diary of a Mad Old Man · Producer
- The Assault · Director, Producer
- All Rebels
- Vrijdag · Chef van Jules
- My Friend, or The Hidden Life of Jules Depraeter · Director, Producer
- The Inheritance · Producer
- Mysteries · Chief Constable
- Gejaagd door de winst (of het A.B.C. van de moderne samenleving) · Postbode
- Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company · Director, Producer
- Lifespan · Prof. van Arp
- Katie Tippel · Klant
- Because of the Cats · Director, Writer
- Camera Sutra (or the Pale Faces)
- Markant: Elise Hoomans · Self
- Daughters of Darkness · Mother
- Arsène Lupin · Mullen
- Mira · Notaris, Director
- Obsessions · Raoul Orlov
- The Enemies · Willy
- The Dance of the Heron · Director, Producer
- Aah... Tamara
- Like Two Drops of Water · Director, Producer
- The Knife · Director
- That Joyous Eve... · Director, Scenario Writer
- Village by the River · Director, Writer