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Hetty Renodreff
Dutch actress.
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Jack Feenstra
Manager of the Royal Bio Film Comp. and director of two films.
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Henri Brondgeest
Dutch actor.
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Asta Nielsen
Asta Nielsen was one of the first international cinema stars. At the beginning of the 1910s, the Danish actress created a furore with her German-made films.
In 1920 she paid a visit as a special guest to the ...
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Joseph Delmont
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Henricus Hommerson
Henricus Hommerson was a carnival operator who journeyed across the country with a travelling cinema at the beginning of the 20th century. He was assisted by his sons Anton, Frans, and Nico.
Hommerson regularly shot local footage that was...
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William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson
William K.-L. Dickson was French-born Englishman who moved to the United States at an early age. For many years he was the assistant to the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison, and played an important role in the development of film. In 1895,...
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L.W.J.H.Thomson
Nederlands Member of Parliament and soldier who was killed in 1914 in Albania.
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Josephus Drehmanns
Dutch clergyman: Bishop of Roermond from 1900 to 1913.
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Hendrik Spiekman
Hendrik Spiekman was a typographer. In 1894, he was one of the founders of the Sociaal Democratische Arbeiders Partij (SDAP) and was later also a Member of Parliament for this party.