Background
Goudsmit"s father, a diamond worker, was Jewish and his mother Roman Catholic.
Goudsmit"s father, a diamond worker, was Jewish and his mother Roman Catholic.
He played many characters on Dutch television, among others in the popular youth series Q en Q (1974) and Thomas en Senior (1985-1988). When Goudsmit died as the consequences of a stroke, instead of doing an episode dealing with his death, along the lines of Mr. Hooper"s death, the producers addressed the issue on the program following Sesamstraat, called Jeugdjournaal (Youth News).
The program aired a compilation of his best appearances on the show and commented on his death.
Goudsmit had told producers that he wanted to stay on Sesamstraat even after his death, so the latest scenes he taped were still used on the next season. During this season, he was slowly phased out of the show.