Rijk de Gooyer

Rijk de Gooyer

Born: December 17, 1925
Died: November 2, 2011
in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
De Gooyer was raised in a baker's family, born as one half of a fraternal twin. In World War II he worked as an interpreter, initially for the American 101st Airborne, later on for the British Field Security. From 1959 till 1961 de Gooyer studied at an actors school of the UFA in Berlin.

In the 1950s, he started a comic duo with Johnny Kraaijkamp. Thanks to their performances on TV, the duo became extremely popular. They split up in the 1970s, when De Gooyer focused more on his film career.

Movies for Rijk de Gooyer...

Qui Vive
Title: Qui Vive
Character: Zwart
Released: February 14, 2002
Type: Movie
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Title: Ciske de Rat
Character: Detective Muyskens
Released: January 6, 2001
Type: TV
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Scratches in the Table
Title: Scratches in the Table
Character: Opa
Released: October 15, 1998
Type: Movie
When Madelief's grandmother dies, her mother takes her to the funeral. She then visits her grandfather, but quickly gets bored, until Mischa tells her how much fun a rural summer can be. She investigates her grandmother's "summer house", made curious by the lock on the door. Madelief didn't remember her grandmother, but from her snooping in the summer house she learns a lot about her. Written by Steve Schonberger
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The Dress
Title: The Dress
Character: Martin
Released: March 21, 1996
Type: Movie
The story of a summer dress and those who have to do with it, especially the train conductor (played by van Warmerdam, the director). The dress functions as catalyst for the whimsical events, which turns out to be either tragic or hilarious.
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Filmpje!
Title: Filmpje!
Character: Don Gorgonzola
Released: May 6, 1995
Type: Movie
Bob and Annie separate. After the court case Annie gives Bob two airline tickets for a tropical island to save their relationship. However, Bob takes someone else with him on holiday: Carmen, the daughter of Mafioso Don Gorgonzola. Annie lags behind in Holland, where she falls in love again with other men.
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Last Call
Title: Last Call
Character: Willem 'Uli' Bouwmeester
Released: February 16, 1995
Type: Movie
Old entertainer gets a last chance to play a serious role.
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Title: Seth & Fiona
Released: April 7, 1994
Type: TV
A live recorded comedy about the divorced Fiona, her son Roel, her gay twin-brother Seth and his German lover Freek.
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Title: For better and for worse
Character: Fred Schuit
Released: October 1, 1991
Type: TV
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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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Evenings
Title: Evenings
Character: Vader
Released: December 8, 1989
Type: Movie
Frits Egters can't quite get a hold of himself. An intelligent and sensitive young man, repulsion and desillusion turned him cynical. According to Frits there should be more to life - he just doesn't know where to find it.
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Polonaise
Title: Polonaise
Character: Zwart
Released: October 5, 1989
Type: Movie
Nico and Leo are getting married. Their entire family and both their exes are in attendance. Some of these are performing musical numbers on stage. But memories of the war and the fact that Leo's mother died in a concentration camp keeps coming to the forefront.
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Rattle Rat
Title: Rattle Rat
Character: Adjudant Grijpstra
Released: February 5, 1987
Type: Movie
A rich Frisian farmer has been murdered in Amsterdam and police duo Grijpstra & De Gier are sent to investigate. Adjutant Grijpstra has problems at home again and is happy to leave for Friesland to investigate the murder. Sgt. De Gier finds the Frisian Hylke much more interesting than the murder case. In Leeuwarden there is a real Chinese war and a brutal robbery at the cattle market. Suddenly there is that friendly rattling, asthmatic rat who provides an unexpected solution.
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Title: Ciske de Rat
Character: Detective Muyskens
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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The Good Hope
Title: The Good Hope
Character: Clemens Bos
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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Mom is Angry!
Title: Mom is Angry!
Character: Pete Stewart
Released: March 20, 1986
Type: Movie
When a wife and mother of two finds out her husband has an affair, she tries to make his life a living hell. The sequel to Dutch move hit Schatjes!
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Shadow of Victory
Title: Shadow of Victory
Character: Vos
Released: January 16, 1986
Type: Movie
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Title: Teufels Großmutter
Character: Werkmeister Hans Binnenbruck
Released: January 2, 1986
Type: TV
Teufels Großmutter is a German television series.
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Title: De Brekers
Character: Peek
Released: October 4, 1985
Type: TV
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Death in the Shadows
Title: Death in the Shadows
Character: Bob Jaspers
Released: February 7, 1985
Type: Movie
A woman and her daughter lives in Oostdijk, a village near Amsterdam. One night when the mother is on her way home, she is killed in a car accident in the street they live in.
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Ciske the Rat
Title: Ciske the Rat
Character: Rechercheur Muyskens
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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Darlings!
Title: Darlings!
Character: Pete Stewart
Released: February 8, 1984
Type: Movie
A peaceful family-life is suddenly disturbed when the children enter puberty. The children take over the house and disrupt the lives of their parents.
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The World of Simon Carmiggelt
Title: The World of Simon Carmiggelt
Character: Koos
Released: April 28, 1983
Type: Movie
Eight newspaper-columns by Dutch writer Simon Carmiggelt were turned into a film in honor of his 70st birthday.
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Black Rider
Title: Black Rider
Character: Rinus IJzerman
Released: February 17, 1983
Type: Movie
A border guard faces a crisis of conscience when he learns that an old comrade is smuggling butter across the border.
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The Lucky Star
Title: The Lucky Star
Character: 1st Gestapo Officer
Released: May 28, 1982
Type: Movie
In the war-torn Netherlands, a local Jewish boy has vivid escapist fantasies of being in a Hollywood western where good always triumphs.
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A Time To Die
Title: A Time To Die
Character: SS Officer
Released: March 26, 1982
Type: Movie
A World War II vet sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Nazis. His targets are four Germans, a Sicilian, and a Hungarian who committed the atrocities. He is aided by a CIA operative, who has another agenda. One of the targeted men is being groomed by the US to become the West German chancellor and is to be protected. Along the way, a third person joins the team.
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Sabine
Title: Sabine
Character: Nick
Released: January 14, 1982
Type: Movie
A 15-year-old girl meets her father for the first time. He never married her mother because his adventurous life did not allow it. He takes his daughter on a working vacation to the exotic island of Aruba, where after a timid start a strong bond develops between father and daughter. Until she discovers that her father is 'unfaithful' to her.
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High Heels, Real Love
Title: High Heels, Real Love
Character: Semijns Roggeveen / Arie Snoek
Released: October 29, 1981
Type: Movie
A bored company owner decides to find out what it is like to be one of his workers. During his "transformation" he falls in love with a cafeteria worker. When his alter ego "The Boss" makes an inappropriate comment to his would-be girlfriend, the worker challenges his "Boss" to a Duel.
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Two Queens and One Consort
Title: Two Queens and One Consort
Character: Laernoes
Released: October 1, 1981
Type: Movie
At the deathbed of his used-to-be militant mother an older man looks back at his childhood, when he was in love with his sensual aunt Coleta.
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Rigor mortis
Title: Rigor mortis
Character: Walter de Beer
Released: September 24, 1981
Type: Movie
In order to get more customers to their rural inn, Karel and Truus have come up with a stunt. Karel will beat the record for being buried alive. After 124 days the media finally show up.
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A Flight of Rainbirds
Title: A Flight of Rainbirds
Character: Bovenmeester
Released: February 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Maarten, a 34 year old cell biologist, works on cloning. One night he dreams he has only seven days left to live.
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The Forbidden Bacchanal
Title: The Forbidden Bacchanal
Character: Kerrie-Kees van Heesteren
Released: January 29, 1981
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Auf Achse
Character: van Haaren
Released: October 28, 1980
Type: TV
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Fatal Error
Title: Fatal Error
Character: Henk Grijpstra
Released: September 20, 1979
Type: Movie
Detectives Grijpstra and De Gier are sent to investigate the case of a man who apparently hanged himself in a center for oriental meditation. It is ruled as suicide and the case seems to be closed, but the same night there is an attempted break in. The investigation hits a dead end and everyone involved is a suspect. Based on the book "The Corpse in the Haarlemmer Houttuinen” by Jan-Willem van de Wetering.
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Nosferatu the Vampyre
Title: Nosferatu the Vampyre
Character: Town Official
Released: January 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Once Jonathan is caught under his evil spell, Dracula travels to Wismar where he meets the beautiful Lucy, Jonathan's wife, while a plague spreads through the town, now ruled by death.
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Boeing Boeing
Title: Boeing Boeing
Character: Freek
Released: December 9, 1978
Type: Movie
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The Mantle of Love
Title: The Mantle of Love
Character: Cor
Released: July 1, 1978
Type: Movie
De Mantel der Liefde is a bizarre, over the top and at times hilarious settling of scores with the Catholic Church, commercial movie culture and 1970's petit bourgeois Dutch culture in general.
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Soldier of Orange
Title: Soldier of Orange
Character: Gestapo Agent Breitner
Released: September 22, 1977
Type: Movie
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.
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De ondergang van de Onan
Title: De ondergang van de Onan
Released: April 14, 1976
Type: Movie
Dick Bakker convinces Onno Bosman to produce a stage show about the sinking of the cruise ship 'Onan' and hires Fred Haché, Barend Servet, Sjef van Oekel and Ir. Van der Pik to star.
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Rufus
Title: Rufus
Character: Rufus
Released: May 7, 1975
Type: Movie
Professional gambler Rufus convinces an ex-girlfriend to help him pull one over on a corrupt casino owner.
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Een winkelier keert niet weerom
Title: Een winkelier keert niet weerom
Character: Postbode
Released: March 20, 1975
Type: Movie
Part of the anthology film Zwaarmoedige verhalen voor bij de centrale verwarming based on Heere Heeresma's darkly humourous short stories. This instalment is about a grocer who goes sailing with a postman whom he gets to know in a bizarre way. With Rijk de Gooyer and John Kraaijkamp Sr.
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The Wilby Conspiracy
Title: The Wilby Conspiracy
Character: Van Heerden
Released: February 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court but he finds himself almost immediately on the run after a run-in with the police. Assisted by his lawyer Rina Van Niekirk and visiting British engineer Jim Keogh, he heads for Capetown where he hopes to recover a stash of diamonds, meant to finance revolutionary activities, that he had entrusted to a dentist before his incarceration. Along the way, they are followed by Major Horn of the South African State security bureau and it becomes apparent that he has no intention of arresting them until they reach their final destination
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Naked Over the Fence
Title: Naked Over the Fence
Character: Rick Lemming
Released: October 25, 1973
Type: Movie
Rick Lemming (Rijk de Goyer) lives in the heart of Amsterdam, where he holds a dovecote and a saloon with slot machines. His best friend Ed Svaan, the champion of karate in the Netherlands, is deeply in love with singer Lily (Sylvia Christelle). With the help of Ed, Lilly concludes a contract with a television director who assures everyone that he will make a high-profile film. Rijk wants to check where his boyfriend and girlfriend are being drawn in and secretly watches the shootings. In fact, a pornographic film is being shot.
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Geen paniek
Title: Geen paniek
Character: Rijk
Released: January 18, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Burglar
Title: The Burglar
Character: Willem "Glimmie" Burg
Released: September 7, 1972
Type: Movie
Burgler and master safe-cracker Glimmie is asked to find a young woman called Fanny by her rich stepfather Van Borsen. However, Glimmie remains suspicious of the man and decides that Fanny has to be protected by him and his pal 'De Bonk'. He is soon proved correct and winds up a scapegoat in Van Borsen's scheme. After his release from prison, Glimmie plans his revenge with some help from a young cleaning girl called Slofje.
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Title: ZDF Werkstatt
Character: Self
Released: April 9, 1970
Type: TV
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The White Slave
Title: The White Slave
Character: Charles Dubois
Released: November 13, 1969
Type: Movie
A man visits his girlfriend in Amsterdam after the war. He soon finds himself, for inexplicable reasons, in a country house where two women as 'white slaves' have to learn all kinds of erotic skills, and where a private detective, who has sold his own wife to an Arab in Tangier, comes to investigate.
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Rififi in Amsterdam
Title: Rififi in Amsterdam
Character: De Bijenkorf
Released: October 3, 1962
Type: Movie
Petty criminal Bert Oliemans goes down for stealing jewellery from a former SS man. After his release he is constantly followed by police commissioner Van Houthem and a greedy gang leader, both out to get their hands on the stolen jewels.
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Kleren Maken de Man
Title: Kleren Maken de Man
Character: Peter
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: Movie
A secret document, a stolen dress suit, two dimwitted crooks, the love of a man for a woman. It all results in a roller coaster ride for a young insurance agent.
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Het Wonderlijke Leven van Willem Parel
Title: Het Wonderlijke Leven van Willem Parel
Character: Pianist
Released: February 11, 1955
Type: Movie
Comedian Wim Sonneveld wants to quit his most beloved character, organ grinder Willem Parel. Parel, however, has his own opinion on the subject and decides to save himself from his creator. After leaving the dressing room poster, Parel sets out into the Netherlands to start a organ grinders revolt.