Ramses Shaffy
Actor
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
Confessions of Loving Couples
as Frank Jansen 1967
The Whipping Cream Hero
1967
The Manneken Pis Case
as Karel Vos 1960
De nietsnut
as Richard Kesselaar 1994
Schermerhoorn
1967
All Rebels
1983
Nitwits
as Joel Palsma 1987
Anna, Child of the Daffodils
as Gerrit 1975
Precious
as Psychiater 1991
Cha Cha
1979