Hans van Tongeren
Dutch actor (1955–1982) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johannes Adrianus Maria (Hans) van Tongeren (18 January 1955, Breda – 25 August 1982, Amsterdam) was a Dutch movie actor, who made his debut in the 1980 Paul Verhoeven movie Spetters.
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Van Tongeren was born in Breda and was recommended to Joop van den Ende for the role of "Rien" in Spetters by casting-director Hans Kemna. The character Rien is a talented motocrosser who is paralyzed in an accident and dies by suicide. Spetters was a very successful movie and van Tongeren was cast afterwards for several Dutch movies.
In 1982 Van Tongeren played a minor role with Peter Gallagher and Daryl Hannah in the American movie Summer Lovers. Van Tongeren had been admitted to mental hospitals several times; according to the Dutch media he identified too much with his roles. On 25 August 1982 he died by suicide, just after having been cast in a Nouchka van Brakel film version of the novel Van de koele meren des doods by Frederik van Eeden, in which he would again have played a person planning to die by suicide.[1]