Louis van Gasteren
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Louis van Gasteren (1987)
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| Born | (1922-11-20)20 November 1922
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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| Died | 10 May 2016 (2016-05-11) (aged 93) |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1951–2016 |
| Spouse | Joke Meerman |
| Awards | Golden Calf for Hans: Het Leven Voor De Dood (1983) Golden Calf for De prijs van overleven (2003) |
| Website | www.louisvangasteren.nl |
Louis Alphonse van Gasteren (20 November 1922 – 10 May 2016) was a Dutch film director, film producer, and artist. He was born in Amsterdam. He is the son of actor Louis van Gasteren Sr. and singer Elise Menagé Challa, and the brother of actress Josephine van Gasteren.
Van Gasteren trained as an electrician. He worked for the Dutch Polygoon newsreel company in Haarlem, Netherlands in 1949. In 1951 he started his own film production company Spectrum Film. He made his debut with Brown Gold, a film about cocoa and chocolate, in 1952. In 1983 Van Gasteren won the Dutch Film Critics Award for best documentary as well as the Golden Calf for best picture for Hans: Het Leven Voor De Dood (Hans, Life Before Death). He received the Golden Calf a second time in 2003 for his documentary The Price of Survival.[1] Van Gasteren was a visiting professor in the United States at UCLA and Carpenter Center for the Visual ArtsatHarvard University. Van Gasteren lived in Amsterdam and was married to Joke Meerman. At the end of his life he was the oldest active filmmaker in the Netherlands.[2]
During the Second World War Van Gasteren was convicted to four years for killing Walter Oettinger, a German Jew in hiding. After the war Van Gasteren was pardoned, but when he claimed a special pension for resistance fighters, this was denied on the grounds that the killing of Oettinger had not been an act of resistance.[3]
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