Bram van der Vlugt

Bram van der Vlugt (28 May 1934 – 19 December 2020) was a Dutch actor. He is known for playing the role of Sinterklaas for over two decades. He died on 19 December 2020, at the age of 86, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands.

Career Sinterklaas He is known for playing the role of Sinterklaas between 1986 and 2010, most notably the annual arrival of Sinterklaas in the Netherlands as well as in the television series De Club van Sinterklaas. He also made many appearances as Sinterklaas in many other television shows, such as Goede tijden, slechte tijden (2006), Life & Cooking (2004 and 2006), De Wereld Draait Door (2008 and 2010), MaDiWoDoVrijdagShow (2010) and Sint & De Leeuw (2005 – 2011, 2018). As of 2011, Stefan de Walle is his successor to play the role of Sinterklaas. Van der Vlugt did appear as Sinterklaas on several occasions after that, most notably in the 2019 film De Brief voor Sinterklaas and the 2020 film De Grote Sinterklaasfilm, which premiered two months before his death. The film became the tenth highest-grossing Dutch film of 2020. Both films were directed by Lucio Messercola. In the 2021 film De Grote Sinterklaasfilm: Trammelant in Spanje, also directed by Messercola, the role of Sinterklaas is played by Robert ten Brink.

Television Between 1963 and 1965 he played the role of Dr. Finlay in Memorandum van een dokter. His mother was Jewish, and was killed in the Holocaust.

Van der Vlugt was the father of musician and former model Marijne van der Vlugt.

Filmography

Film 1976: Alle dagen feest – Chef–redacteur 1978: Pastorale 1943 – van Dale 1981: Het verboden bacchanaal – Frits van der Laan 1982: A Question of Silence – Psychiater 1982: De smaak van water – Hospital Director 1982: Knokken voor twee – Vader Saskia en Joris 1985: Tracks in the Snow – Hein van Oyen 1992: Flodders in America – Nederlandse ambassadeur 1995: Filmpje! – Dokter Lozig 1997: Tropic of Emerald – Herman 2001: Family – Jan 2002: Peter Bell – Sinterklaas 2003: Young Kees – Heer 1 Schoolprijs 2009: Anubis en de wraak van Arghus – Manus 2011: Bennie Stout – Sinterklaas 2014: Secret of War – Viccar 2014: Gift from the Heart – Niek sr. 2017: Het Verlangen – Alfred Goudemondt 2019: De Brief voor Sinterklaas – Sinterklaas 2020: Rundfunk: Jachterwachter – Nestor 2020: De Grote Sinterklaasfilm – Sint Nicolaas

Television 1963–1965: Memorandum van een dokter – Dokter Alan Finlay 1975: Klaverweide – van Amerongen 1979: Pommetje Horlepiep – Langpoot 1983–1984: Herenstraat 10 – Gerard van Laar 1991–1994: Medisch Centrum West – Victor Brouwer 1996–1999: Unit 13 - Winfried Bilderdijk 1999–2009: De Club van Sinterklaas – Sinterklaas 2005–2008: Keyzer & De Boer Advocaten – Atty. Marius de Boer 2013–2014: Moordvrouw – Onno Kremer 2015: Rundfunk – Bernard 2016–2018: Dokter Deen – Bart Vos