Hans Croiset
Acting
Biography
Henri Julien 'Hans' Croiset (1935) is a Dutch stage director and theatre, television, film and voice actor. He is best known for his illustrious stage career. On May 6, 2022, he announced his retirement. Since 2007 he has also been active as a writer. He published an autobiography and several novels.
Born: October 15, 1935
Place of Birth: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Known For
Songs for a Passerby
Songs for a Passerby is a meditative quest that allows you to step outside reality for a moment and look at yourself. As a puppeteer of your own body you will be entering a poetic space where the melancholy question arises: is this me passing by moments, or is it rather the moments passing by me?
Schwarz Rot Gold
Crime series about Hamburg customs investigator Hans Zaluskowski, who joins forces with his colleagues to take on smugglers and fraudsters. In doing so, he not only has to contend with opaque EU customs regulations, but also solve tricky cases with international implications.
The Forbidden Bacchanal
Film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Simon Vestdijk from 1968. During a dinner with the Van der Laan family, memories are reminisced about previous parties that ended in orgy-like scenes.
King of Katoren
The seventeen year old Stach is faced with five impossible assignments he has to complete in order to become king. Things do not go as easily as the boisterous Stach had expected, especially when he is confronted with matters of life and death.
Bon Voyage
A grandfather doesn't tell his daughter and grand children he is seriously ill until just before their holiday.
Heer & Meester
A television series about a charming, voluntary private detective who chases criminals and in the process tries to find himself.
Oogappels
Four different families in a medium-sized Dutch city are followed. Their children attend the same high school. The parents all have their own way of raising children. But for all of them it is true that they set the bar very high for themselves and their little ones: life must be perfect above all!
A Bridge Too Far
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
Dokter Deen
High Flyers
Follow three friends through their many years of intensive training to become fighter pilots with the Royal Netherlands Air Force and as they graduate and carry out a dangerous mission in the Middle East.
Filmography
as Jos
as Menno
as Lodewijk Larooi
as Herman Silverstein
as Kardinaal ten Berghe
as Dominee
as Professor
as Hans Hazelbag
as Arthur Winnies
as Bob
as Prins Bernhard (aged 90)
as Alfons Teeuwe
as Father
as Dr. Rollema
as Duvekot/Boatman
as Doctor
as Claas Hoekstra
as Judge
as Carl Fentener
as Meneer Pinksterblom
as De Kater
as Hans - Old Dutch Lady's Son
as Van Sprang
as Thomas Patijn