Rijk de Gooyer
Rijk de Gooyer, internationally also Ryk de Gooyer ( born December 17, 1925 in Utrecht, † November 2, 2011 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch actor, writer, columnist and singer.
Life and work
De Gooyer was born as identical twins in a Calvinist family. In the spring of 1945, he joined the Dutch Liberation Army and was, as it next to Dutch, English and French also spoke German, used by the British occupying forces as an interpreter. He was present at the liberation of Bergen- Belsen and claims that he was also involved in the arrest and interrogation of Heinrich Himmler in his own words. Subsequently, he worked in his father's bakery.
His artistic career began in 1948 as an auxiliary de Gooyer reporter for the Dutch broadcasting NCRV before he was out of the theater Acting turned a year. His stage career began Rijk de Gooyer on ABC Cabaret, then he was also involved in other cabarets as well as on classical theater. De Gooyer was initially preferred compartment occupied in comedic, in 1952 there were numerous offers added from the Dutch television. In 1959 the narrow artists to Berlin to retrain at the UFA film school. As a direct result of the almost perfect German speaking de Gooyer received a small roll of film on the side of Curd Jürgens in Gerd Oswald's film adaptation of Stefan Zweig's novella Chess. Almost simultaneously, he worked temporarily in East Berlin as an assistant director at the theater. To obtain information about the communist SED regime, he was allegedly recruited and paid by the CIA.
Only since the late 1960s, however, the cinema became important in de Gooyers career. "Before the camera, he covered virtually the entire range of role; he played the little rascals as the Nazi and apartheid henchmen, the bored middle-class citizens as the arrivierten affluent bourgeois, the simple police officer as the smart city inspector. "multiple saw de Gooyer in time pieces from the world war and the early postwar period. Rijk de Gooyer occurred sporadically in German television productions; so he was seen for example in 1982 as a Dutch colleague of Schimanski in the Tatort episode cuddly toys. In the same year he was honored for his life's work with the National Film Award Golden Calf. More Golden calves there were in 1995 for his performance in Hoogste tijd and 1999 in Madelief: Crass in het tafelblad.
Rijk de Gooyer has been active as an author and columnist ( in the Haagse Post ) and also performed as a singer in appearance. In 1967 he landed, together with Johnny Kraaykamp, with the song De Bostella a chart hit: For two weeks, the duo finished in December of the same year first place