Ramses Shaffy - Filmography

Biography

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’.

Filmography

Nachtvlinder 1999

De nietsnut 1994

Precious 1991

Nitwits 1987

Willem van Oranje 1984

All Rebels 1983

Cha Cha 1979

Anna, Child of the Daffodils 1975

The Whipping Cream Hero 1967

Confessions of Loving Couples 1967

Pride and Prejudice 1961

The Manneken Pis Case 1960