Willem Nijholt

Willem Nijholt

Born: July 19, 1934
Died: June 23, 2023
in Gombong
Willem Adrianus Nijholt (1934) is a Dutch actor, dancer and singer who has been immensely succesful in Dutch theatre, film and tv. In his later career he would frequently act as jury member, teacher and trainer of young talent.

Movies for Willem Nijholt...

Title: Penoza
Character: Henk Ooms
Released: September 12, 2010
Type: TV
Carmen, the daughter of a notorious Amsterdam drug lord, reluctantly takes charge of the family's smuggling business in order to clear her husband's debts.
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Title: Op zoek naar Mary Poppins
Released: November 29, 2009
Type: TV
Op zoek naar Mary Poppins was a 2009 talent show-themed television series produced by the AVRO in the Netherlands and broadcast on AVRO. It premiered in late August 2009. The show searched for a new, unknown lead to play Mary Poppins in a Dutch production of the Dutch musical Mary Poppins. The show was hosted by Frits Sissing with Willem Nijholt again overseeing the programme. In the final, on 24 January, Noortje Herlaar was announced as the winner of the series.
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Title: Op zoek naar Joseph
Released: August 30, 2008
Type: TV
Op zoek naar Joseph was a 2008 talent show-themed television series produced by the AVRO in the Netherlands. It searched for a new, unknown lead to play Joseph in a 2009 Dutch revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The show was hosted by Frits Sissing, who announced Freek Bartels as the winner of the final public telephone vote on 26 October 2008. It was the second Dutch talent show to be produced by the AVRO/Willem Nijholt, after Op zoek naar Evita. A third talent show, this time called Op zoek naar Mary Poppins has since aired in full and Op zoek naar Zorro will air in late 2010. A similar format has been used as well in the United Kingdom in 2007, with the show Any Dream Will Do taking an unknown singer and placing the winner in the lead role for the 2007 performances in the West End. On June 9, 2007, Lee Mead was announced the winner of this show. It is speculated that a Canadian Edition will be produced in the wake of Mirvish Production's Production of the same musical.
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Title: Op zoek naar Evita
Released: August 19, 2007
Type: TV
Op zoek naar Evita was a 2007 talent show-themed television series produced by the AVRO in the Netherlands. It documented the search for a new, undiscovered musical theatre performer to play the role of Eva Peron in the 2008 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita. The show was hosted by Frits Sissing who announced Brigitte Heitzer as the winner of the final public telephone vote on 21 October 2007 and masterminded by Willem Nijholt. It became the first of a series of the Dutch themed talent contests to be produced by the AVRO in collaboration with Willem Nijholt. Op zoek naar Joseph followed in 2008 to find a new male lead for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and in 2009 it will be followed by Op zoek naar Mary Poppins searching for a new lead to play Mary Poppins in a production of the musical Mary Poppins.
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Title: Knevel & Van den Brink
Released: April 30, 2007
Type: TV
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Title: Pauw & Witteman
Released: September 4, 2006
Type: TV
Pauw & Witteman is a Dutch late-night talk show, hosted by Jeroen Pauw en Paul Witteman. It is generally focused on current affairs and politics. It is broadcast every weekday at 11 pm on Nederland 1. It is produced by Dutch public broadcasters NPS and VARA. During summer Pauw & Witteman are replaced by Knevel & Van de Brink, a talk show hosted by Andries Knevel and Thijs van den Brink, produced by the dutch evangelical broadcasting company, the EO.
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Gruesome School Trip
Title: Gruesome School Trip
Character: Tour guide / Count Vlapono
Released: December 7, 2005
Type: Movie
The sensitive Onnoval is the best student in his class and he loves Liselore, who was the girlfriend of the bully Gino. His teacher Meester de Vriend believes he is a promising writer and poet. Gino picks on Onnoval all the time, but Onnoval does not fight against Gino because he believes he is a werewolf. When the successful writer of horror tales Nol van Paulo comes for a lecture in his class, he advises Onnonval to never write a story for the evil Ferluci. However, Onnoval is humiliated by Gino and very upset and jealous he writes a story about a class excursion in a horror bus to a horror park, where Gino is killed by a vampire, and gives his story to Ferluci. Later he regrets, but Nol van Paulo tells him that the only way to fix the situation would be stealing his note book and rewriting the conclusion.
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Title: De Wereld Draait Door
Released: October 10, 2005
Type: TV
Talk show hosted by Matthijs van Nieuwkerk containing a mixture of news, information, television bloopers and general entertainment.
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Peter Bell II: The Hunt for the Czar Crown
Title: Peter Bell II: The Hunt for the Czar Crown
Character: Stark
Released: December 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Peter Bell and his Black Hand gang tangle with evil newspaper tycoon Stark once again, as the latter schemes to steal a priceless royal crown with his two cronies.
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Title: Weltevreden op 10: Percy's Place!
Released: October 15, 2003
Type: TV
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Peter Bell
Title: Peter Bell
Character: Stark
Released: November 17, 2002
Type: Movie
Peter is a cheerful -- but not very obedient -- boy from a very ordinary family in pre-war Rotterdam. His many pranks amuse some and cause a lot of trouble to others, even making the front pages of the big city newspapers. His growing popularity brings him many new friends, but also some very powerful enemies.
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Friendship
Title: Friendship
Character: Gijsbrecht van der Zee / Anthony Seawell
Released: July 14, 2001
Type: Movie
Two friends meet again in the autumn of their lives. They have not seen each other for years, but soon find their renewed friendship put to the test when one of them falls ill and the other loses his newfound love.
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Title: Ciske de Rat
Character: Henri
Released: January 6, 2001
Type: TV
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Muziek: Harry Bannink
Title: Muziek: Harry Bannink
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
This documentary explores the life and life of Harry Bannink, an important Dutch composer for theatre and television.
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Under the Palms
Title: Under the Palms
Character: Willem
Released: September 22, 1999
Type: Movie
This film was shot entirely in Rotterdam and shows the German couple David (Helmut Berger) and Tanya (Sheri Hagen) who are kept by Ludwig (Udo Kier), David's half-brother. Ludwig has some dubious business to do and so he is staying in the port for a while. David and Tanya have followed him and are staying in a hotel. They pass the time committing robberies. When David finds a photo of an attractive young man among the booty of a robbery, his life is turned upside down. He will have to close the door on a suffocating past.
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Mates
Title: Mates
Released: February 1, 1999
Type: Movie
October 1997. Paul Winters (35) is deputy public prosecutor in Arnhem and is working on his first major case: an investigation in to the allegations of a Bosnian girl that she was raped by three soldiers in the Dutch UN contingent and whose brother is alleged to have been killed by them. Winters suspects that the girl is telling the truth, but he can't prove it and the case is adjourned. Then one of the men gives a revealing statement that throws a different light on the case. Winters argues in favour of reopening the case, but faces opposition from an unexpected quarter.
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Last Call
Title: Last Call
Character: Etienne
Released: February 16, 1995
Type: Movie
Old entertainer gets a last chance to play a serious role.
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Wie aus Weiter Ferne
Title: Wie aus Weiter Ferne
Character: Jules Coulée
Released: December 27, 1994
Type: Movie
At the invitation of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Dutch conductor Jules Coulée returns to the Netherlands to conduct a one-off performance of Third Symphony by Gustav Mahler. Coulée is unpleasantly surprised when he sees that the Concertgebouw is under construction and that the renovations continue during rehearsals. In addition, the acoustics of the hall are terribly bad and the balcony too close, so that the post horn solo in the third movement cannot possibly come from afar, as the score prescribes. For Coulée, the entire implementation stands or falls with this detail.
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Respect
Title: Respect
Character: Ewout Lorentz
Released: September 21, 1994
Type: Movie
Young journalist has an interview with a succesfull gay playwright who likes to write frankly about sex. At first the interviewee responds cynical and distant, but after a while the tone of the conversation changes. This is because the playwright notices the journalist more than admires him.
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De nietsnut
Title: De nietsnut
Character: Lucas Goudvis
Released: February 1, 1994
Type: Movie
For all his life Frank Goudvis has tried not to follow in the footsteps of his father. When his father is mysteriously murdered, Frank loses his alibi for his cherished passivity and decides to travel to the crime scene.
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Title: Bij Nader Inzien
Released: March 24, 1991
Type: TV
Six friends from college in post-war Europe form a bond. Thirty years on, one of them writes a book on it, calling it the tombstone to their friendship, exposing their bond, analyzing, then totally destroying the false imprints of their alleged connections. A final get-together brings it all out into the open. Based on J.J. Voskuil's novel "Bij Nader Inzien".
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Alaska
Title: Alaska
Character: man
Released: June 14, 1989
Type: Movie
A slaughterhouse worker appears to be romantically involved with his boss's wife. They plan to leave the country together, but at the airport she waits for him in vain. Slowly but surely the three of them get entangled in a fateful web of betrayal, jealousy and revenge.
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Havinck
Title: Havinck
Character: Havinck
Released: October 15, 1987
Type: Movie
When his wife Lydia commits suicide, succesful attorney Robert Havinck is freed from his unhappy marriage. Unfortunately, it turns out she took a complete stranger along with her, and a feeling of guilt and curiosity about her motives lead Havinck to team up with his fifteen-year old daughter to explore Lydia's final days.
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Title: Ciske de Rat
Character: Henri
Released: October 4, 1986
Type: TV
Separated from his father and neglected by his mother, Ciske spends most of his time getting into scrapes on the streets of Amsterdam.
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Ciske the Rat
Title: Ciske the Rat
Character: Oom Henri
Released: March 29, 1984
Type: Movie
Lovable Amsterdam street urchin, 11 year old Ciske is nevertheless much in need of love as the Dutch 1984 title suggests. He is a scamp with a heart of gold. He causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher yet when a polio-crippled boy joins the class Ciske is one of the only children to befriend him and is bullied as a result. His mother works in a bar and Ciske helps out often late into the night - his father is at sea and his mother supplements her income with prostitution. Ciske is also a very angry young man and he smoulders with rage at life's injustices.
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Title: Willem van Oranje
Character: Filips II
Released: January 12, 1984
Type: TV
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Hans, Life Before Death
Title: Hans, Life Before Death
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Hans: Het Leven voor de dood (Hans, Life Before Death) is a documentary feature film about the life of the young composer Hans van Sweeden (1939-1963) and those who knew him intimately. The film is about the harrowing life of the musician, poet and actor Hans van Sweeden (1939-1963), who ended his life at the age of 24. Simultaneously, the film offers a poignant portrait of his contemporaries in the turbulent fifties and sixties and the children of the Nazis. It won the Golden Calf for Best Feature Film in 1983. Award of the Dutch film critics, 1983; the Belgian film critics Award, 1984; Best Dutch Documentary 1980-1990. (Wikipedia)
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Een Kannibaal als Jij en Ik
Title: Een Kannibaal als Jij en Ik
Released: May 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Television adaptation of the Dutch musical from 1975 about riotous youth.
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Corrie en Haar Mannen
Title: Corrie en Haar Mannen
Released: November 3, 1978
Type: Movie
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Title: De Kris Pusaka
Character: Ben Van Rooyen
Released: October 31, 1977
Type: TV
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Title: Pleisterkade 17
Released: December 7, 1975
Type: TV
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Title: The Hidden Force
Character: Theo
Released: September 9, 1974
Type: TV
In the sweltering Dutch East Indies, the European colonizers are plagued by a hidden force; a combination of tropical magic, Eastern inscrutability and mutual incomprehension. Blind and deaf to the slumbering powers of the East Indian people, resident Van Oudyck, his son, daughter and seductive wife slowly but surely fall prey to this mysterious force...
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Wim Sonneveld with Willem Nijholt and Corrie van Gorp
Title: Wim Sonneveld with Willem Nijholt and Corrie van Gorp
Character: Willem Nijholt
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Recording of the theatre program by the Dutch cabaret artists Wim Sonneveld, Willem Nijholt and Corrie van Gorp.
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Eva Bonheur
Title: Eva Bonheur
Character: Nanning Storm
Released: May 22, 1972
Type: Movie
Adaptation for television of the stage play of the same name by the Dutch playwright Herman Heijermans. When lodger Eva Bonheur lends her landlady Mop two thousand pounds and Mop is unable to repay her, Bonheur gets control of the house and decides to put Mop, her husband Jasper and their daughter Miep out on the street.
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Daniël
Title: Daniël
Released: October 13, 1971
Type: Movie
After a year's trip around the world, twenty-year-old Daniël comes home where a surprise awaits him. In his absence, his boring bourgeois parents have become completely captivated by the sexual revolution. In their new trendy clothes and their 'groovy' white interior, they make sexual freedom a mockery. This upsets Daniël so much that he flees again. This time to the 'peaceful, unspoilt countryside'. Disillusionment awaits him there too. Frustrations and sexual obsessions appear to be just as intense there as in the big city.
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Title: Vinger aan de pols
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV