Fons Rademakers
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- September 5, 1920
- Died
- February 22, 2007
- Birthplace
- Roosendaal, Netherlands
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.
Filmography
Hollywood by Bike 1993
as Himself
The Rose Garden 1989
Director
Diary of a Mad Old Man 1987
Producer
The Assault 1986
Director, Producer
All Rebels 1983
Actor
Vrijdag 1981
as Chef van Jules
My Friend, or The Hidden Life of Jules Depraeter 1979
Director, Producer
The Inheritance 1978
Producer
Mysteries 1978
as Chief Constable
Gejaagd door de winst (of het A.B.C. van de moderne samenleving) 1977
as Postbode
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company 1976
Director, Producer
Lifespan 1975
as Prof. van Arp
Katie Tippel 1975
as Klant
Because of the Cats 1973
Director, Writer, Producer
Camera Sutra (or the Pale Faces) 1973
Actor
- Markant: Elise Hoomans
Markant: Elise Hoomans 1972
as Self
Daughters of Darkness 1971
as Mother
Mira 1971
as Notaris, Director
Obsessions 1969
as Raoul Orlov
The Enemies 1968
as Willy
The Dance of the Heron 1966
Director, Producer
Aah... Tamara 1965
Actor
Like Two Drops of Water 1963
Director, Producer, Scenario Writer
The Knife 1961
Director
That Joyous Eve... 1960
Director, Scenario Writer, Idea
Village by the River 1958
Director, Writer
Credits from TMDB.