Piet Hendriks

Piet Hendriks was born on Dec 13, 1918 in Netherlands. Piet Hendriks's big-screen debut came with The Magnificent Tony Carrera directed by José Antonio de la Loma in 1968, strarring Patron (uncredited). Piet Hendriks is known for The Late Late Lien Show directed by Frans Boelen, Wieteke van Dort stars as Tante Lien and Elly Ruimschotel as Toetie. The most recent award Piet Hendriks achieved is TeleVizier-Ring Gala, Netherlands. The upcoming new movie Piet Hendriks plays is Te gek om los te lopen which will be released on Mar 12, 1981.

Piet Hendriks was to the public mainly known as the 'Ingenieur' in the legendary tv-musical 'Ja Zuster, Nee Zuster'. Until the early nineties he played in the Dutch edition of Sesamestreet. As a boy, he wanted to go to the theater, though his parents urged him to become an electrician. He was mainly acting in amateurcompanies. After the war he worked at the head postoffice of Amsterdam, and at that stage he decided to become an actor. He was hired for the club of Tom Manders, better known as Dorus. In 1954 he made his first television appearance in a show of Tom Manders. After that he hardly played in the theater anymore, and he started to appear in television series. He always played 'small' parts: a police-man, a waiter, a lackey, a pedestrian. He was playing the part of 'de Ingenieur' (the engineer) in a modest way: as a counter-measure against the other characters, who were all very noisy. His only title-part was in the televisions series 'De Wolvenman' (The Wolf-man) by Dick Walda, as a widowed man who starts a new romance, and doing so arouses the anger of his children. After this part he started to play small parts again. Mr. Hendriks sometimes felt a little bit underrated or even discriminated. He simply wasn't one of the top guys, but he deserves to be remembered as someone often playing characters like himself: nice, kind, honest and modest