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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1925-12-17

Place of Birth

Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

Rijk de Gooyer

Biography

De Gooyer was raised in a baker's family, born as one half of a fraternal twin. In World War II he worked as an interpreter, initially for the American 101st Airborne, later on for the British Field Security. From 1959 till 1961 de Gooyer studied at an actors school of the UFA in Berlin. In the 1950s, he started a comic duo with Johnny Kraaijkamp. Thanks to their performances on TV, the duo became extremely popular. They split up in the 1970s, when De Gooyer focused more on his film career.

Known for

Auf Achse

Auf Achse

The adventures of a group of German truckers on jobs all over the world.

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Nosferatu the Vampyre

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

Two Queens and One Consort

Two Queens and One Consort

At the deathbed of his used-to-be militant mother an older man looks back at his childhood, when he was in love with his sensual aunt Coleta.

For better and for worse

For better and for worse

The Wilby Conspiracy

The Wilby Conspiracy

Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court but he finds himself almost immediately on the run after a run-in with the police. Assisted by his lawyer Rina Van Niekirk and visiting British engineer Jim Keogh, he heads for Capetown where he hopes to recover a stash of diamonds, meant to finance revolutionary activities, that he had entrusted to a dentist before his incarceration. Along the way, they are followed by Major Horn of the South African State security bureau and it becomes apparent that he has no intention of arresting them until they reach their final destination

Seth & Fiona

Seth & Fiona

A live recorded comedy about the divorced Fiona, her son Roel, her gay twin-brother Seth and his German lover Freek.

Death in the Shadows

Death in the Shadows

A woman and her daughter lives in Oostdijk, a village near Amsterdam. One night when the mother is on her way home, she is killed in a car accident in the street they live in.

ZDF Werkstatt

ZDF Werkstatt

Beppie

Beppie

Wintertijd

Wintertijd

Bij Nader Inzien

Bij Nader Inzien

Six friends from college in post-war Europe form a bond. Thirty years on, one of them writes a book on it, calling it the tombstone to their friendship, exposing their bond, analyzing, then totally destroying the false imprints of their alleged connections. A final get-together brings it all out into the open. Based on J.J. Voskuil's novel "Bij Nader Inzien".

Madelief: Throwing with dolls

Madelief: Throwing with dolls

Madelief is an ordinary, imaginative seven-year-old girl who experiences everyday things in an extraordinary way. She actively explores the world around her, together with her friends Roos and Jan-Willem.

Brainwashed

Brainwashed

Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess.

The Rattle Rat

The Rattle Rat

A rich Frisian farmer has been murdered in Amsterdam and police duo Grijpstra & De Gier are sent to investigate. Adjutant Grijpstra has problems at home again and is happy to leave for Friesland to investigate the murder. Sgt. De Gier finds the Frisian Hylke much more interesting than the murder case. In Leeuwarden there is a real Chinese war and a brutal robbery at the cattle market. Suddenly there is that friendly rattling, asthmatic rat who provides an unexpected solution.

No Panic

No Panic