Background
Rademakers, Fons was born on September 5, 1920 in Roosendaal, Brabant, The Netherlands. Son of Alfred Alouis and Amelia Catherina M. (Kuypers) Rademakers.
Actor director screenwriter film producer
Rademakers, Fons was born on September 5, 1920 in Roosendaal, Brabant, The Netherlands. Son of Alfred Alouis and Amelia Catherina M. (Kuypers) Rademakers.
Student, Academy Dramatic Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1941.
He died in 2007 in a Geneva hospital of emphysema, after the life-support machines were switched off at his request.
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.
Married Lili Veenman, May 24, 1960. Children: Alphonse Alouis, Alfred Adriaan Michael.
