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Known for
Actor
Gender
Male
Birthday
05 December
Location
North Holland, Netherlands
Edit pageJeroen Krabbé
Biography
Jeroen Aart Krabbé (born 5 December 1944) is a Dutch actor and film director with a successful career in both Dutch- and English-language films. He is best known to international audiences for his leading roles in the Paul Verhoeven films Soldier of Orange (1977) and The Fourth Man (1983), for playing the villain General Georgi Koskov in the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987) and his parts in The Prince of Tides (1991), The Fugitive (1993), and Immortal Beloved (1994). His 1998 directorial debut, Left Luggage, was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.
His television work included playing an uncanny psychic in the Midsomer Murders series 11 episode "Talking to the Dead". Krabbé had an exhibition of his paintings in the Museum de Fundatie (Zwolle), in 2008.
He began working on documentaries for Dutch television about his favorite painters. In 2015 the first series was about Van Gogh, followed in 2017 by a series about Picasso, in 2018 by Gauguin and 2020, about Chagall, and recently, in August 2022, about Frida Kahlo.
