Chris Cauwenberghs

Acting

Chris Cauwenberghs

Born — Died

1947-02-04 — 2025-04-23

Place of birth

Hemiksem, Belgium

Known for

Acting

Credits

58 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 15 titles

Robin Hood de musical poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Robin Hood de musical

2012

Plop Show: Plop Gets Married poster
NR

There is a lot of hustle and bustle in the gnome forest. Plop is busy baking 1000 plop-cookies, Kwebbel has to clean her mushroom and Klus is working on a great invention with Lui's help. But a storm is coming; Aunt Plap! She stays with her cousin Plop until he marries a gnome girl..

Plop Show: Plop Gets Married

2011

Plop Show: The Toy Store poster
NR

Lui is very proud of his new scooter, but then Klus breaks the wheel. Oh no, what now? The gnomes travel to a toy store to buy a new wheel. While Plop, Kwebbel and Lui look for a wheel, Klus has fun with all the toys. But what a mess he makes of it! He has to clean it all up, but a talking bear helps Klus with the annoying task..

Plop Show: The Toy Store

2014

Plop Special: The Egg poster
2.5

The gnomes find an egg and decide to take care of it together. But whose egg is it? That of a bird? A snake? Or a crocodile? No, it's a cute little duckling. Kwebbel takes care of the young, while Klus and Lui look for the mother duck..

Plop Special: The Egg

2014

Plop Special: The Firegnome poster
NR

Firegnome Kwiek comes to the gnome forest to visit his great-nephew Lui. Plop, Smal, Klus and Kwebbel are shocked when they see Kwiek, because he looks like an exact copy of Lui. Only the Firegnome is fitter, tougher and less tired than their friend Lui. Soon all the gnomes are impressed by the brave Kwiek and forget about their true friend..

Plop Special: The Firegnome

2014

Plop Special: Carnival Prince poster
NR

Hooray! The carnival celebration is finally happening again in the gnome forest! But before that happens and everyone can dress up, a carnival prince must be elected. Lui has a good chance, after all it has never been his turn. But Klus would also love to be a Carnival prince one day. Who will it become this year?

Plop Special: Carnival Prince

2011

Plop Special: The Gnome Easter Bunny poster
10.0

When the sick Gnome Easter Bunny comes knocking on Plop's door to help him prepare and hide the eggs for the gnome children this year, Plop immediately calls on all his friends to help him. While Kwebbel takes care of the sick Easter Bunny, Klus makes a real Easter egg machine and all the gnomes help out. Only Smul has a wicked plan, he wants to steal eggs in revenge because the gnome Easter Bunny once forgot about him. But of course that turns out to be a misunderstanding...

Plop Special: The Gnome Easter Bunny

2010

Plop Becomes Gnome King poster
1.5

Because of a misunderstanding, Plop turns into the new king! Klus, Kwebbel and Lui move to the palace, while Plop is trained to become royalty, but what happened to the real heir of the throne?

Plop Becomes Gnome King

2012

Plop Show: Holiday Full Of Surprises poster
NR

Aunt Plap allows Plop and his friends to come and stay in her holiday mushroom on the flower meadow, but Klus finds a caterpillar and takes it in as his new pet. What starts as a new friend quickly becomes the other gnomes' worst nightmare..

Plop Show: Holiday Full Of Surprises

2013

Musical: Robin Hood poster
8.3

A great unforgettable adventure that takes you to the forests of Sherwood, where Robin and his band fight against the tyrannical King John. Amidst all the action, Robin also finds the love of his life: Marianne.

Musical: Robin Hood

2012

Plop Special: The Wishing Stone poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Plop Special: The Wishing Stone

2013

Plop Special: The Gnome Fair poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Plop Special: The Gnome Fair

2013

Plop Show: The Joke Champion poster
NR

An explosion, cut flowers, and glued slippers: Plop and his friends are confronted with a mysterious prankster gnome. But who is this mysterious gnome who is playing all these pranks? And can the gnomes laugh about it? Are you, like our gnome friends, curious about the mysterious prankster gnome and wondering how this adventure will end? Then get your laughing muscles ready, because this new show by Plop and his friends is packed with fun gnome jokes and pranks, as well as familiar and fun songs!

Plop Show: The Joke Champion

2011

Kabouter Plop - Superkabouter poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kabouter Plop - Superkabouter

2010

De Grote Sinterklaasshow poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

De Grote Sinterklaasshow

2010

2000s · 18 titles

Plop In The City poster
3.5

Lui eats a dangerous berry, despite Plop's warning, and grows as tall as a human. The gnomes get angry, so Lui runs away crying and gets lost in the forest. Before he knows it, he ends up in the city, causing chaos wherever he comes..

Plop In The City

2006

Plop: The Violin Adventure poster
4.7

During their trip through the woods picking Berries, Gnome Plop and his friends hear violin music coming from a house. Klus climbs onto the house to find a girl playing, but she discovers him and drops the violin in shock. Tomorrow is an important performance, the gnomes have to help her whatever it takes. Even if it brings them to the city..

Plop: The Violin Adventure

2005

Plop and the Gnome Baby poster
3.0

Lui finds a basket with a clown baby inside and starts to take care of the baby as if it's his own. But due to a misunderstanding, he thinks that Plop has something against babies and decides to keep him hidden..

Plop and the Gnome Baby

2009

Plop and the Penguin poster
1.0

On a cold winter day, Plop and his friends get a visit from Pinki, a penguin that escaped an evil woman that wants to create Pinguin Soup. The gnomes travel to the South Pole to rescue all the penguins, before it's too late..

Plop and the Penguin

2007

Plop and the Magic Wand poster
5.0

Gnome Plop expects a visit from Santa Gnome, just like every other year. Only this year things have taken a turn for the worst! Mik and Mak, two gnomes who have been forgotten by Santa year after year, steal his sleigh and as a result Santa not only loses all of his presents, but also his very important magic wand..

Plop and the Magic Wand

2003

Plop Show: The Taunting Troll poster
4.2

Something terrible has happened in the Gnome Forest. While Klus, Lui, Kwebbel and Plop were having a picnic, a girl took Lui's cuddly toy away. Lui has trouble sleeping, so the Gnomes have to travel to the human's house to retrieve it..

Plop Show: The Taunting Troll

2006

Plop Show: The Circus poster
5.2

Plop, Kwebbel, Klus and Lui are going to the circus! But then it turns out that it's canceled, because two of the clowns have become ill. But luckily the circus decides to organize a competition! The two who perform the funniest act can join the performance..

Plop Show: The Circus

2009

Plop In The Clouds poster
5.5

One day, gnome Plop receives a letter from his uncle Knap. It states that Uncle Knap is very ill and that he can only heal if he drinks the juice of the Carbuncle root, but that root unfortunately only grows in Plop's forest and there isn't enough time left. Klus decides to build a real airship with which the gnomes can fly to Uncle Knap, but the journey is difficult and not without dangers..

Plop In The Clouds

2000

Kabouter Plop - Het kabouterziekenhuis poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kabouter Plop - Het kabouterziekenhuis

2003

Samson & Gert Kerstshow: Reis door de Tijdmachine (2003-2004) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Samson & Gert Kerstshow: Reis door de Tijdmachine (2003-2004)

2003

Plop en de Kaboutermummie poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Plop en de Kaboutermummie

2006

Plop Show: The Music Champion poster
7.5

Gnome Amadeus is giving a big concert, but only one of our friends can participate. They have to compete against each other. Who will be the true music champion?

Plop Show: The Music Champion

2008

Plop and Kwispel poster
5.1

Plop and his friends find a puppy in the woods. They adore him immediately, but when they hear that Kwispel has a human owner, they decide to bring the dog back..

Plop and Kwispel

2004

Plop Show: The Visit of Pinki poster
NR

It is winter in the gnome forest. Plop, Klus, Kwebbel and Lui bring a letter to gnome Pruts and arrive in a wonderful laboratory. There they stumble upon an extraordinary invention; a traveling machine. When Pruts has to leave unexpectedly, Klus and Kwebbel try to secretly bring Snorre from the South Pole to them. But the machine doesn't work as it should. Hopefully this will all end well!

Plop Show: The Visit of Pinki

2009

Plop Show: The Mouse Girl poster
NR

The gnomes receive a strange letter from a mouse in distress. She has been trapped in a hole for days because the cat wants to eat her. When they arrive at the house, it turns out that someone else is behind the letter.

Plop Show: The Mouse Girl

2007

Plop Special: Plop's Birthday poster
NR

It's Plop's birthday and that, of course, has to be celebrated. Kwebbel, Klus and Lui send Plop into the woods for a long, relaxing walk so they can prepare the party in the meanwhile. But won't Kwebbel talk too much? Can Lui stay awake long enough to help? And won't Klus' new invention cause problems? Let's hope it all goes well..

Plop Special: Plop's Birthday

2007

De Grote Sinterklaasshow poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

De Grote Sinterklaasshow

2009

Plops Verjaardagstaart poster
NR

Various episodes of Kabouter Plop 1. Plop's birthday cake 2. The Kluskoeken party 3. The Kabouter fanfare 4. To the ball with Smal 5. Lui goes waltzing 6. Plop is getting married 7. Musical chairs 8. The Mustard Cake 9. Playing Hide and Seek 10. Smul's Birthday.

Plops Verjaardagstaart

2007

1990s · 3 titles

1980s · 10 titles

Paniekzaaiers poster
5.8

Gaston and Leo are active in Antwerp's motorbike brigade. But the two are demoted to simple neighbourhood cops. When they track down a dangerous woman kidnapper and his accomplice, the pair soon find themselves back in favour. Before they can complete their sleuthing, they must escape the attentions of their wives.

Paniekzaaiers

1986

Congo Express poster
3.8

The story centers on Jean (François Beukelaers)—an ex-colonial and former mercenary—and his girlfriend Nadia, who together run the tavern. The bar serves as a gloomy crossroads where three different generations of patrons intersect. As these lonely individuals drink and collide, they confront each other's unfulfilled dreams, romantic illusions, hidden desires, and sudden outbursts of aggression. Trapped between their past actions and what could have been, the characters struggle with profound miscommunication. The film blends dark melancholy with sharp injections of humor, tracking a complex web of human relationships where everyone is simultaneously the hunter and the prey.

Congo Express

1986

Peasant Psalm poster
5.5

The movie follows the turbulent life of Wortel, a deeply devout yet flawed Flemish farmer at the turn of the 20th century. Wortel has an intense bond with his land, but his life is defined by a relentless series of tragic hardships.Throughout his journey, Wortel faces the loss of multiple children, the suicide of his son, and the heartbreaking deaths of his wives, Fien and Frisine. Despite these devastating misfortunes, he is constantly urged by the local village priest to accept this suffering as part of God's grand plan. Mixing heavy melodrama with moments of dark, bittersweet humor, the film portrays Wortel’s fierce survival instinct, human weaknesses, and ultimate search for solace through his faith and hard labor.

Peasant Psalm

1989

Whitey poster
5.1

The second movie version, now in color, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White', referring to a blond male) of the main character. The smart but naughty farmhands son's eternal mischief, pranks and disobedience drive his elders (especially teachers, family and father's grumpy employer, a rich farmer, but also neighbors and even the kind curate whose liturgical server he is) and classmates to despair in a time when a boy's punishment was still inevitable, swift and often severe; thus when his mother catches him skinny dipping she takes all his clothes home, forcing him to a long walk of shame, dreading dad's wrath all the way. This version also stresses the story's social and Flamingant aspects.

Whitey

1980

Zware jongens poster
5.7

Gaston grew up on the fringes of society and interacts with other people as little as possible. Leo, on the other hand, is a very bourgeois person. He lives way above his station, but has a heart of gold. Using forged cheques and unsecured credit cards, he tries to keep up appearances. By a coincidence, Gaston's fate is linked to Leo's.

Zware jongens

1984

Hector poster
6.7

Hector's parents sent him to an orphanage in treatment for smallpox but... they never picked him up. 35 years later, he still lives in the orphanage, surrounded by children, his playmates. Till a forgotten aunt remembers that he exists. She'll get him to participate in the bakery of her husband, Achilles, to work. Hector shows his skills on the basis of unexpected inventions. So he helps Jos, the son of Achilles, to accomplish his dream to be a cycling champion. Hector's good humor and childlike manner overcomes all resistance and pulls his entire entourage along on the path to success. From now on he can learn what love is...

Hector

1987

No artwork available
10.0

Burdened with debt trauma, Mermans is murdered as the wife of Dingenen, a tired, unemployed man in his forties. All suspicions fall on him, but ultimately everything works out in this film adaptation of Aster Berkhof's novel of the same name.

Het Spook Van Monniksveer

1989

No artwork available
10.0

When Anna, a twenty-eight-year-old photographer, is put in charge of a report on the restoration works at The Ostend Museum of Modern Art, she discovers by chance five paintings signed Constant Permeke, whose power and mystery move and fascinate her.She decides to embark on a quest to find out about who Permeke actually was, the places where he lived, how he worked, what experiences he went through.

Permeke

1985

No artwork available
7.0

A son gets blamed for not doing anything, like for example helping his father. But is this true?

A Helping Hand

1989

Vrijdag poster
4.8

Hugo Claus rewrote and directed Friday as the cinematic version of his original 1969 play of the same name. Just as in the play, the story begins with the theme of incest, as the father Georges (Frank Aendenboom) returns from serving his jail sentence for that crime. Unlike the earlier play, however, the film does not emphasize that aspect of the story. When Georges gets home he finds out that his wife Jeanne (Kitty Courbois) has had an illegitimate child by a younger man, Erik (Herbert Flack), and now both of them must somehow try to return to a normal life, given their only too obvious lapses in moral judgment. As the husband and wife try hard to accommodate each other's failings and start to get to know each other again, Erik comes back into the picture. Now the three of them must resolve the deep-seated conflicts that brought them to this emotionally-wrought juncture of love and betrayal.

Vrijdag

1981

Series credits

Aspe poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Aspe

2004

Thuis poster
6.7

The Bomans, Bastiaens, Verbeeck, and de Grote families must navigate personal and romantic relationships while dealing with the challenges of their daily lives.

Thuis

1995

Kabouter Plop poster
8.0

Kabouter Plop is the eponymous protagonist in a children's television series by Studio 100. The television series is directed by Bart Van Leemputten. Most episodes last about five minutes and are set in Plop's milk inn or in Kabouter forest. The stories often involve pranks by naughty Kabouter Klus. Each episode starts with Plop lying in bed and reviewing what happened the past day. At the end of the episode he says he goes to "Kabouter dream land". Most episodes contain a moral.

Kabouter Plop

1997

Galaxy Park poster
6.0

Galaxy Park the story of six youngsters who work in a holiday park. Soon they discover that one of them is an alien. The six start the search to find the mysterious creature and try to figure out what his intentions are. But they are not the only ones who are interested in the alien..

Galaxy Park

2011

En daarmee Basta! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

En daarmee Basta!

2005

Urbain poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Urbain

2005

R.I.P. poster
6.5

RIP was about the funeral company Vingerhoets. This business is losing its paterfamilias and boss. The widow Victorine Vingerhoets and her nephew, Willie Haezevoets, who live at home, have to take over the business and keep it going. Willie is patronized as a son and doesn't feel like going through life as an undertaker because he is desperately looking for a wife. The input of friend of the house Raymond van Derre (also known as Raymondke) often ensured that things never went the way they should.

R.I.P.

1992

Liegebeest poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Liegebeest

1983

Big en Betsy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Big en Betsy

2000

Kabouter Plop - Het kabouterziekenhuis poster
NR

Every night Kabouter Plop, a gnome living inside a mushroom, tells the audience about the adventures he and his friends have had that day.

Kabouter Plop - Het kabouterziekenhuis

2003

Plop Vertelt: Verjaardag poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Plop Vertelt: Verjaardag

2017

Plop Vertelt: Pasen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Plop Vertelt: Pasen

2016