Acting

Ab Abspoel

Born 1925-04-29 · The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

Acting credits

The Lift poster
5.8

A lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the elevators of a new office building.

The Lift

1983

Spetters poster
6.4

Amateur dirt-bikers Rien and Hans–and their mechanic Eef–each fall in love with Fientje, a young woman who, with her brother Jaap, works a concession stand at the races. Everyone seeks a better life: Fientje wants out of the business and away from Jaap; and Rien and Hans aim to make their marks as pro racers, like their hero, Gerrit Witkamp.

Spetters

1980

Wild Hearts poster
4.0

The passionate but dangerous relationship between actress Alison and glamour crook Quinten. Their love goes so far that Alison provides her lover with an alibi when he is suspected of murdering his father. But Quinten also goes to great lengths for her and goes after her manager when it turns out that he has run off with her wages. However, this confrontation proves fatal for Quinten on the eve of the premiere of Alison's show.

Wild Hearts

1989

The Scorpion poster
7.5

It's 1956. Truck driver Loe Wolf wants to emigrate to America, but he doesn't have the money to take this step in life. When his boss entrusts him with a certain amount of money, he takes a gamble.

The Scorpion

1984

Bicycling to the Moon poster
9.0

A gentle comedy about three brothers, each of whom inherited something of their deceased father’s personality. Their paths keep crossing in curious ways.

Bicycling to the Moon

1963

The Assault poster
6.8

At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch family. Years after the war the young boy who witnessed the killing runs into the members of the resistance who committed the killing.

The Assault

1986

Mensch Durf Te Leven poster
NR

The story of the murder of Dutch comedian Jean-Louis Pisuisse and his wife, by the hands of jealous singer Tjakko Kuiper. Based on Gerben Hellinga's play, and performed by the Publiekstheater.

Mensch Durf Te Leven

1980

The Rising Sun poster
NR

The small business of the De Sterke family is threatened when their ever-expanding neighbour, department store 'The Rising Sun', starts taking away their customers.

The Rising Sun

1978

The Hes Case poster
5.6

Hes, an uptight and disaffected social worker reaching retirement, discovers a young woman, Anna, in the closet of an acquaintance who has committed suicide. Realizing that she has been kept in the apartment all her life, he moves in and helps her comes to terms with the complexities of the real world.

The Hes Case

1982

Baantjer, de film: De Cock en de wraak zonder einde poster
6.3

When ex-colleague Peter de Beer is killed, detective De Cock is facing the ultimate challenge. Peter’s daughter Michaelle, a witness of the murder, is in shock and cannot help De Cock. But, does the killer also know this? Out of precaution De Cock takes the little crown witness under his wings. To his regrets he concludes that his past pursues him. The trail is leading to a couple of old-India travelers. These old but very tough men already prevented him to solve a murder case years ago. Also this time they try whatever is in their power to keep the murder covered up.

Baantjer, de film: De Cock en de wraak zonder einde

1999

The Girl with the Red Hair poster
6.7

During the second world war law student Hannie Schaft is a member of the Dutch resistance movement.

The Girl with the Red Hair

1981

Doctor Vlimmen poster
6.5

A veterinarian lives together with his sister and her son in a small village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. He has to cope with gossip and distrust from the villagers.

Doctor Vlimmen

1978

The Silent Raid poster
7.0

In 1944 Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, a band of Dutch resistance fighters plot to covertly rescue dozens of compatriots from the local Nazi prison.

The Silent Raid

1962

No artwork available
9.0

Feature film based on Leon de Winter's book of the same name, in which protagonist Herman Dürer hitchhike south after a stay in a juvenile detention center and ends up stranded in Munich.

The demise of Herman Dürer

1979

Murder in Ecstasy poster
5.4

De Cock and Vledder investigate the robbery of an armored truck which leads to several murders.

Murder in Ecstasy

1984

De klop op de deur poster
8.0

As years pass, the Craets-Goldeweyn family must cope with the disappearance of the familiar and the inescapable new that imposes itself.

De klop op de deur