Helmert Woudenberg was one of the founders of Het Werkteater, an innovative theater collective. He became known for his roles in Blue Movie (1971) and Max Havelaar (1976), but has appeared in many theater performances, TV series and films.
Films, TV and theatre
He had a role in the films Doctor Vlimmen and Amsterdamned, in the TV series We are back home by Wim T. Schippers, Flikken Maastricht, Baantjer and Divorce.
He also taught an acting method he developed himself at his own theater course Studio 5. This spring he said that he would like to reprise his role in Flikken Maastricht.
Born in 1945
Woudenberg was born in 1945 in the German village of Elspe. He was the grandson of NSB leader Hendrik Jan Woudenberg and the son of Jan Woudenberg, who served in a Dutch unit of the Waffen-SS and was killed in Poland shortly before his birth.
In 2004, he played a performance about this background by his childhood friend Ischa Meijer, who survived the Bergen-Belsen camp as a child.
Woudenberg’s son reported his death to the ANP.
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