Ramses Shaffy

Acting

Ramses Shaffy

Born 1933-08-29 · Neuilly sur Seine, France

Ramses Shaffy (1933–2009) was a Dutch actor and singer. Born near Paris, his Egyptian diplomat father and Polish noble mother separated before he was born and he was adopted by a Dutch family at a young age. He became popular during the 1960s and made a theatre comeback from alcoholism in the early 1990s, playing Don Quichotte in the musical The Man of la Mancha. His most famous songs include Zing, vecht, huil, bid, lach, werk en bewonder (Sing, fight, cry, pray, laugh, work and admire), We zullen doorgaan (We will go on), and Laat me (Leave me be). His website describes Shaffy as ‘a Dutch-Franco-Polish-Russian-Egyptian mixture of Tom Waits and Frank Sinatra’.

Acting credits

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A Young man is interested in the girl next door, but also discovers that he is not insensitive to a boy, with whom he has dress-up parties in the attic and plays in an old bunker in the dunes.

Schermerhoorn

1967

Nitwits poster
9.0

Comedy about actor Joel Palsma who struggles through life working in commercials and small roles in plays and also has a complicated love life.

Nitwits

1987

All Rebels poster
8.0

All Rebels paints a picture of the young people who congregated around Amsterdam’s Leidseplein square in the days before wider protest movements broke out in the late ’60s and the ’70s. They kicked against the powers that be through wild parties, jazz music, unconventional clothing, long hair, smoking marihuana, uninhibited dancing and free love.

All Rebels

1983

De nietsnut poster
9.0

For all his life Frank Goudvis has tried not to follow in the footsteps of his father. When his father is mysteriously murdered, Frank loses his alibi for his cherished passivity and decides to travel to the crime scene.

De nietsnut

1994

Nachtvlinder poster
9.0

King Olaf of Haland is an albino who lives in a gloomy castle. Abraham Mogèn, an alchemist, wants to aid the king. But on his way to the castle he is murdered by the highwayman Wogram and his servant Onorg. Wogram disguises himself as the alchemist and wins the favor of the king.

Nachtvlinder

1999

Confessions of Loving Couples poster
4.0

Author Frank's debut novel is successful, but he needs the proceeds to pay off a debt and his girlfriend Mascha ends their relationship. He meets another woman, but he and Mascha also seem to make amends. These amorous vicissitudes give him inspiration for a new book, which will deal with eroticism in the Netherlands.

Confessions of Loving Couples

1967

Precious poster
7.0

A 17 year old girl runs away form home and finds shelter with a 50 year old man with a psychiatric past.

Precious

1991

The Whipping Cream Hero poster
3.3

In this debut comedy by director Erik Terpstra, an ordinary middle-class gentleman picks up a colorful but degenerate and no-good beatnik/hippie hitchhiker and inexplicably invites him home to meet the wife and kids. The resulting conflicts between the hitchhiker, who respects no rules or boundaries, and the family, provide the substance for most of the humor in this sincere but not especially well-thought-out film. Reviewers who saw the film at the 1967 Mannheim Film Festival expressed the opinion that it was an unformed work by a promising talent.

The Whipping Cream Hero

1967

Cha Cha poster
8.0

Bank robber Herman Brood becomes a rock and roll star with the help of Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich.

Cha Cha

1979

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10.0

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An Outsider

1967

The Good Hope poster
6.8

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.

The Good Hope

1986

The Manneken Pis Case poster
8.0

Kamiel steals the famous Brussels statue of Manneken Pis to impress his girlfriend Denise, the daughter of the man who is supposed to guard it. The Belgians, however, wrongly accuse the Dutch of having stolen their statue and hit back by stealing the statue of Hansje Brink.

The Manneken Pis Case

1960

Anna, Child of the Daffodils poster
5.5

The story of a young woman with mental problems told in a non-chronological fashion.

Anna, Child of the Daffodils

1975