Ramses Shaffy

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1933-08-29

Deathday 2009-12-01 (76 years old)

Place of Birth Neuilly sur Seine, France

Ramses Shaffy

Biography

Ramses Shaffy (1933–2009) was a Dutch actor and singer. Born near Paris, his Egyptian diplomat father and Polish noble mother separated before he was born and he was adopted by a Dutch family at a young age. He became popular during the 1960s and made a theatre comeback from alcoholism in the early 1990s, playing Don Quichotte in the musical The Man of la Mancha. His most famous songs include Zing, vecht, huil, bid, lach, werk en bewonder (Sing, fight, cry, pray, laugh, work and admire), We zullen doorgaan (We will go on), and Laat me (Leave me be). His website describes Shaffy as ‘a Dutch-Franco-Polish-Russian-Egyptian mixture of Tom Waits and Frank Sinatra’.

Known For

Actor

1999
Nachtvlinder

as Walko van Haland

1994
De nietsnut

as Richard Kesselaar

1991
Precious

as Psychiater

1987
Nitwits

as Joel Palsma

1986
The Good Hope

as Simon

1984
Willem van Oranje

as Graaf Lamoraal van Egmont

1960

Sound

2023
Wait and See

as Music