Rijk de Gooyer
Also Known As: Rijk de Gooijer
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Adult: No
Birthday: December 17, 1925
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 02, 2011
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Soldier of Orange
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1977-09-22
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A Time to Die
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-26
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The Dress
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1996-03-21
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Nosferatu the Vampyre
Overview: A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-01-17
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The Wilby Conspiracy
Overview: 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
Genres: Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-01
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Darlings!
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1984-02-08
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Ciske the Rat
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1984-03-29
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Rufus
Overview: Professional gambler Rufus convinces an ex-girlfriend to help him pull one over on a corrupt casino owner.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1975-05-07
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Evenings
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1989-12-08
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Filmpje!
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1995-05-06
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Naked Over the Fence
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1973-10-25
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High Heels, Real Love
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1981-10-29
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Hitting the Fan!
Overview: 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!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1986-03-20
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A Flight of Rainbirds
Overview: Maarten, a milquetoast bachelor living with his terminally ill mother, is haunted by a nightmare in which God tells him to lose his virginity or die within the week.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1981-02-19
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Death in the Shadows
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1985-02-07
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Shadow of Victory
Overview: During World War II, two members of the Dutch resistance share the same goal but use very different methods to reach it.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1986-01-16
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Geen paniek
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1973-01-18
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Fatal Error
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1979-09-20
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The Burglar
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1972-09-07
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Rattle Rat
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Action Drama Thriller Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1987-02-05
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Scratches in the Table
Overview: 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
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-15
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The Forbidden Bacchanal
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1981-01-29
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Sabine
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1982-01-14
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The White Slave
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1969-11-13
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Polonaise
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1989-10-05
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The Lucky Star
Overview: In the war-torn Netherlands, a local Jewish boy has vivid escapist fantasies of being in a Hollywood western where good always triumphs.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-28
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Boeing Boeing
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1978-12-09
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Een winkelier keert niet weerom
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-20
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The Mantle of Love
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1978-07-01
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De ondergang van de Onan
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-14
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Two Queens and One Consort
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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Brainwashed
Overview: Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-02
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Black Rider
Overview: A border guard faces a crisis of conscience when he learns that an old comrade is smuggling butter across the border.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1983-02-17
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Rififi in Amsterdam
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1962-10-03
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The World of Simon Carmiggelt
Overview: Eight newspaper-columns by Dutch writer Simon Carmiggelt were turned into a film in honor of his 70st birthday.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1983-04-28
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Qui Vive
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Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2002-02-14
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Kleren maken de man
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1957-10-11
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Het wonderlijke leven van Willem Parel
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1955-02-11
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Rigor mortis
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1981-09-24
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Last Call
Overview: Old entertainer gets a last chance to play a serious role.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1995-02-16
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The Good Hope
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1986-08-07
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Happy End
Overview: Na 'Leedvermaak' uit 1989 en 'Qui vive' uit 2001 is de trilogie nu compleet met 'Happy end'. Frans Weisz regisseerde, Judith Herzberg schreef. Een familiegeschiedenis waarin 3 generaties van een joodse familie elk op hun eigen manier worstelen...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2009-10-01
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Melancholy Tales
Overview: A series of four stories written by the Dutch writer Heere Heeresma, interpreted by four different directors. A confirmed bachelor bumps into his secretary after work. An old man just wants to be left alone at Christmas time. A former sailor yearns to get back to the sea, away from his clarinet playing wife. A shopkeeper in a rowboat gets into an argument with a postman on a bicycle.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1975-03-20
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