Kees Torn
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Biography: Kees Torn is a Dutch text writer, composer and comedy performer. Torn started his cabaret performance in 1991, when he was studying at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. As "Kees en Ik" (Kees and I), he performed quite a successful show with fellow student Gerrie Hondius. In 1994 he made his official solo-debut with the show. Torn is known for his old fashioned style of comedy performance, which consists largely of songs and poems. Torn prefers to write about whisky, cigars and love. He won a Poelifenario for his show 'Dood en verderf '('Death and destruction').
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oostburg
Adult: No
Birthday: February 02, 1967
Age: 58 years old
Gender: Male
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Het Langzame Leven van Kees Torn
Overview: Filmmaker André van der Hout made an intimate film portrait about Dutch musical comedian, poet, thinker and drinker Kees Torn, who stopped performing in 2012.
Genres: Documentary Music Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2022-06-08
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25 Jaar Leids Cabaret Festival
Overview: Complete registration of the anniversary theater program, recorded in April 2003 in the Royal Theater Carré in Amsterdam. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Leids Cabaret Festival, a performance was created with the participation of more than twenty different comedians, including Wim Helsen, Kees Torn, Sanne Wallis de Vries, Erik van Muiswinkel, and many others.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2003-05-29
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Kees Torn: Als Ik het Niet Dacht
Overview: In his second comedy show the Dutch comedian Kees Torn sings about postmen who wonder about street names, Rotterdam by night, playing Mozart and being trapped in your own limited body.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Kees Torn: Plek Zat
Overview: In his third comedy show the Dutch comedian Kees Torn tells and sings about his girlfriend. He is in love and therefore affraid that it will end. He also fears that he is too in love to write about anything else and that his audience will get tired of him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Kees Torn: Mooie Boel
Overview: In his fourth comedy show the Dutch comedian Kees Torn has resolved not to talk about his girlfriend anymore, as that got out of hand in his previous show. This performance is therefore about other matters: how progress does not always actually bring about progress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Kees Torn: In de Gloria
Overview: In his fifth comedy show the Dutch comedian Kees Torn reflects on addictions. Torn himself struggles with a dependence on whiskey and cigars, but also rhyme, Bach and his girlfriend José.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Kees Torn: Dood en Verderf
Overview: In his (Poelifinario price winning) seventh comedy show the Dutch comedian Kees Torn remembers the death of loved ones. Torn reflects, in his own way, on life and death.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Kees Torn: Einde Verhaal
Overview: In his eighth comedy show the Dutch comedian Kees Torn reflects on his youth in a Reformed environment and how he lost his faith.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Kees Torn: Doe Mee en Win
Overview: In his sixth comedy show the Dutch comedian Kees Torn tells that his impresario no longer allows him to talk about his girlfriend, his love for cigars and whiskey. That's why he's only talking about politicians, television personalities and important things like the QWERTY keyboard layout.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Kees Torn: Loze Kreten
Overview: In his ninth and last comedy show the Dutch comedian Kees Torn tells about his passion for science and on what he wants to do after his last tour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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De Bende van Vier
Overview: The Dutch musical comedians Theo Nijland, Maarten van Roozendaal, Jeroen van Merwijk and Kees Torn sing and play a selection of their songs to promote the Dutch theater song.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2008-09-18
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