Carel Struycken

Carel Struycken (IPA kɑrəɫ strœykən ); ( Born July 30, 1948 in The Hague) is a Dutch film actor. He is known by its extraordinary height of 2.13 m, which is explained by the fact that he suffers from the disease acromegaly.

Life

At the age of four years Struycken and his family moved to Curacao, an island in the Caribbean, where he lived until 1964. Then he returned to the Netherlands, where he first finished the college. There followed a training on the Amsterdam drama school and a one-year internship at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.

Following on Struycken worked closely with director and writer Rene Daalder. But he was discovered only in 1977 for his film debut, the band was in Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club, an adventure film, among others, the Bee Gees.

In his spare time he puts their creativity to panoramic photography.

Filmography (selection)

TV series

Movies

As a screenwriter