Dick Rienstra | |
Birth Date: | 1941 |
Birth Place: | Assen, Netherlands |
Death Date: | 2021 (aged 79-80) |
Nationality: | Dutch |
Years Active: | 1975–2006 |
Notable Works: | Flodders in America (1992) |
Dick Rienstra (1941 – 2021) was a Dutch singer and actor.Rienstra began his musical career in a local group, The Double S Combo, where he sang and played guitar, clarinet, and saxophone. In 1960 he debuted on the radio in a KRO program, and in 1962 on the TV, in a VARA talent show. He moved to Amsterdam in 1963 and got a job in a musical comedy production as a singer and an actor in skits, and in 1966 signed with the Snip en Snap Revue. With the Amsterdams Volkstoneel he performed in the musical De Jantjes, and later formed a musical duo called De Jantjes as well. He was a contender in the preliminaries for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977, and after that performed in the theater and in minor roles on television. He played a role in the comedy film Flodders in America (1992) and played the lead in the EO drama series De laatste carrier (1994).[1]
Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
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1975 | Keetje Tippel | Cop | Uncredited | |
1977 | A Bridge Too Far | Captain Krafft | ||
1992 | Flodders in America | Captain | ||
1998 | Ngo si seoi | Army | ||
2006 | Sinterklaas en het Uur van de Waarheid | Commissaris |