Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1933-08-29
Day of Death
2009-12-01
Place of Birth
Neuilly sur Seine, France
Ramses Shaffy
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 (13)
Nachtvlinder
1999
De nietsnut
1994Precious
1991
Nitwits
1987
The Good Hope
1986
All Rebels
1983
Cha Cha
1979
Anna, Child of the Daffodils
1975An Outsider
1967
The Whipping Cream Hero
1967Schermerhoorn
1967
Confessions of Loving Couples
1967