Louis H. Chrispijn Senior

Date of birth
13-05-1854
Date deceased
01-11-1926

Biography

Louis H. Chrispijn Sr. was an actor and director. He made his acting debut at eighteen with the Amsterdamse Vereenigde Tooneellisten company. He quickly became well-known as a jeune premier, and proceeded to perform with companies in The Hague and Rotterdam.

In 1893, he was one of the founders of the Nederlandsche Tooneelvereeniging, where he both acted and directed. After a series of disagreements, Chrispijn left the Tooneelvereeniging and became a director-actor at Het Nederlandsch Tooneel.

Chrispijn worked at Het Nederlandsch Tooneel until director and producer Maurits H. Binger hired him as director for the feature films made by Filmfabriek Hollandia. Chrispijn also played a role in Binger’s theatre company Hollandia Tooneel.

In his three years at Hollandia, he directed 25, mostly short films that featured performers like Annie Bos and his previous wife Christine van Meeteren.

Dissatisfied with the artistic quality of the Hollandia films, Chrispijn shifted his professional efforts back to the theatre in 1915.

Until 1922, he was a director and actor at the Rotterdamsch Tooneel. Chrispijn’s influence is most felt in the world of theatre, for example in how he introduced the Netherlands to the work of Henrik Ibsen; Chrispijn was also a strong supporter of ‘bare acting’, stripped of any pathos

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filmography

  1. 1913
    Director
  2. 1913
    Actor
    Tramp
  3. 1913
    Actor, Director
  4. 1913
    Actor, Director
    Professor Mortman
  5. 1913
    Director
  6. 1913
    Director
  7. 1913
    Director
  8. 1913
    Actor, Director, Script writer
  9. 1913
    Actor, Director
  10. 1913
    Director
  11. 1913
    Director
  12. 1914
    Director
  13. 1914
    Actor, Director
  14. 1914
    Actor, Director
  15. 1914
    Director
  16. 1914
    Director
  17. 1914
    Actor, Director
  18. 1914
    Director
  19. 1914
    Director
  20. 1914
    Actor, Director
  21. 1914
    Actor, Director
    Count
  22. 1914
    Director
  23. 1914
    Director
  24. 1914
    Actor, Director
  25. 1914
    Actor, Director
    Father
  26. 1914
    Director
  27. 1915
    Director
  28. 1915
    Actor
    Bargee
  29. 1915
    Actor
    Van der Meulen
  30. 1915
    Actor
  31. 1916
    Actor, Director
  32. 1916
    Actor
    Von Zwenken, Francis's grandfather
  33. 1917
    Actor
    Van Haaften

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