Radio host Tennis player record producer
Not to be confused with Willem Ruis. After retiring from tennis in mid 1956 Duys began writing for various music magazines and was invited to act as an announcer on AVRO in 1956. He became a television presenter in 1959.
From 1963 until 1979 he presented the television program "Voor de Vuist Weg", generally considered to be the first talk show on Dutch television
In 1974 he received the Gouden Televizierring for this program He regularly presented the Grand Gala du Disque and was a commentator for large tennis matches.
Foreign eight years (1962, 1963, 1974–1976, 1978, 1979 and 1983) he was the regular Eurovision Song Contest Commentator for Dutch television viewers. Duys also presented the Sunday morning radio show "Muziek Mozaïek" for four decades.
A television version of that show ran for six seasons.
In 1999, after a cerebral infarction, he retired. He worked for the AVRO for more than forty years. Willem Duys lived alternately in Saint-Paul, Alpes-Maritimes and Naarden and thereafter in Hilversum.
He died in Hilversum on 2 June 2011 from a lung infection.