I started studying acting in a school where they thought that it was better to "break" your personality before they teach you about acting. It didn't quite flow with me and we parted ways. I remember throwing a big party that night. Why? It was just not my thing. Sometimes your path is laid out differently for you than you planned it
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I than became involved in a “Jerzy Grotowski” kind of theatre group, named La Luna. We performed Macbeth by Shakespeare on the beach. Went into the Dutch theatres with Hamlet and finally did Danton by Buchner in a swimming pool in Rotterdam. The leader of our 20 persons group was Çanci Geraedts.
The one thing she taught me most was that she would always say, metaphorically speaking: “ You see that wall?” and we would all reply: “Yes”, because we couldn’t imagine of ourselves that we were able to do what she asked of us. She then let us experience that we can go through any “wall” and become greater than ourselves. It was a true revelation for me, forever grateful.
I got noticed by a casting agent, Hans Kemna, who’s partner, Adrian Brine casted me in my first paid acting job in a play by Arthur Kopit, Wings, produced by Hugo Metsers.
I felt I was up an running as an actor. I soon got an invitation from Hans Kemna to do an audition in Paris for a movie called “The Name of the Rose” . I declined. Why? I was inexperienced and without any real professional guidance. (Not saying that I would have landed the job though :-)) Not much later I attached myself to Harry Klooster’s Zwollywood Management. Harry helped me get my acting career on track.
Determined "to make it" I got connected to the Amsterdam “Actors Studio” and they organized a teacher/coach from New York, who among had thought Susan Blakely, Jane Fonda, Patrick Swayze and gave Dolph Lundgren a hint that he should do an audition for Rocky IV. The coaches' name is Warren Robertson. Warren studied with Lee Strasberg
After taking his classes for several years, I saw the light in my being come on and started landing more acting jobs. It was an exhilarating time and I became very interested in teaching people the craft of acting. I found out I had the gift to do that.
Through a local newspaper I leveraged my new found “fame” and organized a group of 20 aspiring actors. It was a roaring success and the rest is history as they say.
✔️Successful actors keep taking acting classes. Like a piano that needs a tuner. Fact is that most actors work their butts off to become great.
I believe that Everyone can Act.
It is your journey into awareness.
Below some of my work as an actor
