René Groothof

René Groothof

Born: June 19, 1949
in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
René Groothof is a Dutch actor. He is the brother of fellow actor Frank Groothof.

Movies for René Groothof...

Title: Women of the Night
Character: Willem
Released: November 10, 2019
Type: TV
Haunted by a shadowy past, the wife of a rising star in Amsterdam's mayoral office finds herself drawn into the city’s underworld of sex and drugs.
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Title: Oogappels
Character: Vader Tim
Released: January 24, 2019
Type: TV
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Craving
Title: Craving
Character: Martin
Released: March 15, 2018
Type: Movie
Coco has no idea what to do with her life until she discovers her mother is terminally ill. She wholeheartedly embraces this new purpose in life and moves in with her mother to take care of her, ignoring their distant relationship, as well as her mother's desire to die alone.
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Hotel de Grote L
Title: Hotel de Grote L
Character: Walput
Released: April 19, 2017
Type: Movie
Kos (13) is going through the most bizarre period in his life. His mother died a few years ago and his dad is having a heart attack. While Kos’ father is in the hospital, it looks like the hotel he is running will be a big mess. But Kos and his three sisters do not intend to let that happen. After the siblings find out that father is deep in financial problems, the hotel is threatened with closure. The children however come up with a solution: someone has to win the local beauty pageant, with a hefty cash prize attached.
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Hallo Bungalow
Title: Hallo Bungalow
Character: Peer
Released: December 3, 2015
Type: Movie
A comedy about three woman working at a boring holiday resort and their criminal employer.
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The Resurrection of a Bastard
Title: The Resurrection of a Bastard
Character: Minne
Released: February 20, 2013
Type: Movie
A criminal from Amsterdam barely surviving a liquidation. An old Frisian farmer bent on revenge. An illegal immigrant with uncertain prospects. Eventually, they meet under an ancient oak tree. Beyond the last town.
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Fidgety Bram
Title: Fidgety Bram
Character: Meester Vis
Released: June 27, 2012
Type: Movie
Fidgety Bram (seven years old) thinks a lot about the world around him. He is very much looking forward to enter the first grade. But then he ends up in the class of the strict teacher Mr. Fish. The straightfoward Mr. Fish doesn’t care about the inside world of the constantly moving around and unconcentrated little boy and does whatever it takes to make Bram do things the ‘right’ way.
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Title: Thirteen in the War
Character: Alex Offenbach
Released: October 25, 2009
Type: TV
The story of a 13 year old boy in occupied holland during WWII
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Alex in Amsterdam
Title: Alex in Amsterdam
Released: September 26, 2009
Type: Movie
The somewhat naïve teenager Alex Meulenaers leaves his hometown, to go study economics in Amsterdam. He is the first of his family to leave Limburg. However, faith has something else in store for him. The movie shows us how Alex sees Amsterdam: sometimes threathening, sometimes absurd and always with wonder.
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Title: Flikken Maastricht
Character: Helmert Streuvels
Released: September 3, 2007
Type: TV
Former Amsterdam police detective Floris Wolfs has been transferred to the police department of the south-Dutch country town Maastricht. His metropolitan experience nicely complements the local expertise of his new country colleagues, who know the folks. Slowly he fits in, while solving countless crimes together with his female partner Eva van Dongen.
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Het Werkteater 1970-1985
Title: Het Werkteater 1970-1985
Released: September 8, 1997
Type: Movie
Documentary about the Dutch theatregroup the Werktheater. The aim of the company was to create socially relevant theater by means of cooperative processes and improvisation. They often played their performances on location, such as in hospitals, prisons, healthcare institutions and schools. In this documentary, those involved are interviewed about this remarkable theater group.
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Dying to Go Home
Title: Dying to Go Home
Character: Sam
Released: October 18, 1996
Type: Movie
A Portuguese imigrant in Holland dies in an accident and is buried in Amsterdam. But his soul will not rest in peace until his body is carried back to Portugal.
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The Flying Dutchman
Title: The Flying Dutchman
Character: Hollander
Released: May 11, 1995
Type: Movie
Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War.
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Theo en Thea en de ontmaskering van het Tenenkaasimperium
Title: Theo en Thea en de ontmaskering van het Tenenkaasimperium
Character: Frits
Released: December 13, 1989
Type: Movie
Theo and Thea want to make a movie of Snow White, but Gerard Joling, who should play prince, cries off. Someone suggests to ask opera singer Marco Bakker. First he doesn't want to, but when Theo and Thea dress up like jazz singers Bea and Ans, he decides to join in. Marco even falls in love with the dressed-up Theo. Written by Clausule
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Gebroed
Title: Gebroed
Character: René
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Television recording of the theatre play 'Gebroed' by the Werkteater from 1983. The play, written and performed by Frank and René Groothof, is about their childhood together, their relationship to each other and to their parents, their conflicts, but also their shared love for theater and music.
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The Hes Case
Title: The Hes Case
Character: Man in bar
Released: September 23, 1982
Type: Movie
Hes, an uptight and disaffected social worker reaching retirement, discovers a young woman, Anna, in the closet of an acquaintance who has committed suicide. Realizing that she has been kept in the apartment all her life, he moves in and helps her comes to terms with the complexities of the real world.
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A Hot Summer Night
Title: A Hot Summer Night
Released: March 11, 1982
Type: Movie
A husband, half of an entertainment duo, the Nellicos, tells his wife, who is the other half of the duo, that he has another woman. But they cannot discuss this as he tells her only just before they are due to perform in front of a large audience. (BFI)
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Bosch en Lucht
Title: Bosch en Lucht
Character: Piet Smit
Released: July 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Video registration of the German version of the performance 'Bosch en Lucht' by the Dutch theatre group 'het Werkteater'. 'Bosch en Lucht' was a performance about mentally handicapped children.
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Hello Fellow Man
Title: Hello Fellow Man
Character: Roel Eigenhuis
Released: January 4, 1980
Type: Movie
TV-adaptation of the performance by the Dutch theatre group 'Het Werkteater'. Three ladies of high society invite homeless people, homeless people and junks to spend a pleasant evening with them, in order to promote communication and integration.