Fons Rademakers
1920-09-05 ( 104 years old ) in 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.

Movies

All Rebels 1983-11-03
Vrijdag 1981-03-07
Mysteries 1978-09-07
Lifespan 1975-09-05
Katie Tippel 1975-03-06
Mira 1971-03-04
Obsessions 1969-08-15
The Enemies 1968-09-05
Aah... Tamara 1965-01-01