Ramses Shaffy

Ramses Shaffy

Born: August 29, 1933
Died: December 1, 2009
in Neuilly sur Seine, France
Ramses Shaffy (1933–2009) was a Dutch actor and singer. Born near Paris, his Egyptian diplomat father and Polish noble mother separated before he was born and he was adopted by a Dutch family at a young age. He became popular during the 1960s and made a theatre comeback from alcoholism in the early 1990s, playing Don Quichotte in the musical The Man of la Mancha. His most famous songs include Zing, vecht, huil, bid, lach, werk en bewonder (Sing, fight, cry, pray, laugh, work and admire), We zullen doorgaan (We will go on), and Laat me (Leave me be). His website describes Shaffy as ‘a Dutch-Franco-Polish-Russian-Egyptian mixture of Tom Waits and Frank Sinatra’.

Movies for Ramses Shaffy...

Title: Knevel & Van den Brink
Released: April 30, 2007
Type: TV
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Nachtvlinder
Title: Nachtvlinder
Character: Walko van Haland
Released: September 2, 1999
Type: Movie
King Olaf of Haland is an albino who lives in a gloomy castle. Abraham Mogèn, an alchemist, wants to aid the king. But on his way to the castle he is murdered by the highwayman Wogram and his servant Onorg. Wogram disguises himself as the alchemist and wins the favor of the king.
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De nietsnut
Title: De nietsnut
Character: Richard Kesselaar
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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Precious
Title: Precious
Character: Psychiater
Released: February 24, 1991
Type: Movie
A 17 year old girl runs away form home and finds shelter with a 50 year old man with a psychiatric past.
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Nitwits
Title: Nitwits
Character: Joel Palsma
Released: August 20, 1987
Type: Movie
Comedy about actor Joel Palsma who struggles through life working in commercials and small roles in plays and also has a complicated love life.
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The Good Hope
Title: The Good Hope
Character: Simon
Released: August 7, 1986
Type: Movie
Young Barend is worried about the safety of the sailing vessel he is on. The owner is an unscrupulous and stingy man who skimps on repairs and Barend becomes aware of this. Inevitably there is drama and tragedy. The film is set in an early 20th century Dutch fishing village with local period costume and colour.
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Title: Willem van Oranje
Character: Graaf Lamoraal van Egmont
Released: January 12, 1984
Type: TV
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All Rebels
Title: All Rebels
Released: November 3, 1983
Type: Movie
All Rebels paints a picture of the young people who congregated around Amsterdam’s Leidseplein square in the days before wider protest movements broke out in the late ’60s and the ’70s. They kicked against the powers that be through wild parties, jazz music, unconventional clothing, long hair, smoking marihuana, uninhibited dancing and free love.
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Cha Cha
Title: Cha Cha
Released: December 13, 1979
Type: Movie
Bank robber Herman Brood becomes a rock and roll star with the help of Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich.
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Anna, Child of the Daffodils
Title: Anna, Child of the Daffodils
Character: Gerrit
Released: February 27, 1975
Type: Movie
The story of a young woman with mental problems told in a non-chronological fashion.
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The Whipping Cream Hero
Title: The Whipping Cream Hero
Released: September 14, 1967
Type: Movie
In this debut comedy by director Erik Terpstra, an ordinary middle-class gentleman picks up a colorful but degenerate and no-good beatnik/hippie hitchhiker and inexplicably invites him home to meet the wife and kids. The resulting conflicts between the hitchhiker, who respects no rules or boundaries, and the family, provide the substance for most of the humor in this sincere but not especially well-thought-out film. Reviewers who saw the film at the 1967 Mannheim Film Festival expressed the opinion that it was an unformed work by a promising talent.
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Schermerhoorn
Title: Schermerhoorn
Released: May 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A Young man is interested in the girl next door, but also discovers that he is not insensitive to a boy, with whom he has dress-up parties in the attic and plays in an old bunker in the dunes.
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Confessions of Loving Couples
Title: Confessions of Loving Couples
Released: February 16, 1967
Type: Movie
Author Frank's debut novel is successful, but he needs the proceeds to pay off a debt and his girlfriend Mascha ends their relationship. He meets another woman, but he and Mascha also seem to make amends. These amorous vicissitudes give him inspiration for a new book, which will deal with eroticism in the Netherlands.
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The Manneken Pis Case
Title: The Manneken Pis Case
Character: Karel Vos
Released: September 30, 1960
Type: Movie
Kamiel steals the famous Brussels statue of Manneken Pis to impress his girlfriend Denise, the daughter of the man who is supposed to guard it. The Belgians, however, wrongly accuse the Dutch of having stolen their statue and hit back by stealing the statue of Hansje Brink.