Christine Chrispijn - van Meeteren

Date of birth
26-04-1885
Date deceased
03-01-1973

Biography

Christine van Meeteren was a Dutch actress. She made her stage debut in 1905. That same year she married the successful stage director and actor Louis Chrispijn Sr. Together they toured the Dutch East Indies in 1908.

In 1913, they were invited by producer and director Maurits H. Binger to join his steady core of actors at Filmfabriek Hollandia. At Hollandia, Van Meeteren acted alongside e.g. Annie Bos in a number of comic films about the Zeeland girls 'Mijntje en Trijntje'. Chrispijn became Hollandia's first permanent director. Not long afterwards, in 1915, he returned to the stage, and a year later divorced from Van Meeteren.

Van Meeteren also stopped working at Hollandia, and in 1917 travelled to the Dutch East Indies for a second tour. During the voyage, she met her second husband. She then withdrew for almost twenty years from the theatre and film worlds. In the mid-1930s, van Meeteren began acting again, and played a role in Suikerfreule. In 1936, she also founded a film school that would help prepare beginning actors for a film career. Some of her students appeared in the unfinished feature film Zomerzotheid. At the end of the 1940s, she finally retired from the stage.

A handwritten 1958 note from Van Meeteren says, ‘My memories as a film star from 1912-1915’.

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filmography

  1. 1913
    Actor
    Tiska
  2. 1913
    Actor
    Widow Juttner
  3. 1913
    Actor
    Trijntje
  4. 1913
    Actor
    Trijntje
  5. 1913
    Actor
    Margaret of Parma / Elsje van Houwelingen
  6. 1913
    Actor
  7. 1913
    Actor
    Narrator
  8. 1913
    Actor
    Trijntje
  9. 1914
    Actor
  10. 1914
    Actor
    Helena's sister
  11. 1914
    Actor
  12. 1914
    Actor
  13. 1914
    Actor
    Vandoorn's housemaid
  14. 1914
    Actor
    Tinus de Schel
  15. 1914
    Actor
    Jennie's sister
  16. 1914
    Actor
    Businessman's wife
  17. 1914
    Actor
  18. 1914
    Actor
    Neighbour
  19. 1914
    Actor
    Forester's wife
  20. 1915
    Actor
    Sarda Velsen
  21. 1915
    Actor
  22. 1915
    Actor
    Mrs. Van der Velde, the miser's daughter
  23. 1915
    Actor
    Tenant's wife
  24. 1916
    Actor
    Coachman's widow
  25. 1935
    Actor
    Girlfriend of Betje
  26. 1939
    Actor
    Mother

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