Jeroem Krabbe (Wikipedia)
Jeroem Krabbe is a Dutch actor and film director who has appeared in more than 60 films since 1963, including Soldaat van Oranje (1977), The Fourth Man (1983), The Living Daylights (1987), The Prince of Tides (1991), The Fugitive (1993), and Immortal Beloved (1994).
Krabbé was born into an artistic family in Amsterdam. Both his father Maarten Krabbéand grandfather Hendrik Maarten Krabbé were well-known painters, while his mother Margreet, née Reiss (1914–2002), was a film translator. His brother Tim is a writer and top level chess player, and his half-brother nl:Mirko Krabbé is an artist. Only later in life did he learn that his mother was Jewish and that her family had been killed in the Holocaust.
Internationally, he first came to prominence in fellow Dutchman Paul Verhoeven‘s films Soldier of Orange opposite Rutger Hauer and The Fourth Man with Renée Soutendijk. His first big American film was the Whoopi Goldberg comedy Jumpin’ Jack Flash.
However, it was his roles as villains in a string of international films from the late 1980s and early 1990s which brought him international stardom, with notable roles such as Losado in No Mercy (1986), General Georgi Koskov in the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987), Gianni Franco in The Punisher (1989), Herbert Woodruff (Lowenstein’s husband) in The Prince of Tides (1991), and Dr. Charles Nichols in The Fugitive (1993). He has also appeared in numerous TV productions, and as Satan in the TV production Jesus.
He was both director and producer of a 1998 film about Orthodox Jews during the 1970s in Antwerp (Belgium) co-starring Isabella Rossellini and Maximilian Schell called Left Luggage, as well as the Harry Mulisch novel adapted into film The Discovery of Heaven. Left Luggage was entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. The following year, he was a member of the jury 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 also had an exhibition about his paintings in Museum de Fundatie(Zwolle), in 2008.
