Fons Rademakers
Born 1920 (age 86) · Roosendaal, Netherlands
Appears in 25 titles

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

The Assault
6.8
The Assault
1986
Director
Because of the Cats
5.3
Because of the Cats
1973
Director
Village by the River
6.9
Village by the River
1958
Director
Like Two Drops of Water
6.4
Like Two Drops of Water
1963
Director
Mira
5.3
Mira
1971
Director
The Knife
5.6
The Knife
1961
Director
The Rose Garden
6.7
The Rose Garden
1989
Director
That Joyous Eve...
5.8
That Joyous Eve...
1960
Director
The Dance of the Heron
6.5
The Dance of the Heron
1966
Director