Home

Jan Aarntzen (1950-2024)

Birthplace:
Gendt, The Netherlands

Born:
August 21, 1950

Died:
May 15, 2024

Biography from TheMovieDB

Jan Aarntzen was a Dutch costume and set designer for the theatre. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem, he was active as a teacher and director of the Amsterdam Fashion Academy Vogue from 1977 to 1988. He also worked as a costume and set designer. His first independent design was for the performance Bosjes Bloemen (1989) by Karin Bloemen, with whom he collaborated for decades. In addition to Karin Bloemen, he designed costumes and sets for Marjolijn Touw, Purper, Jos Brink, Tineke Schouten, Brigitte Kaandorp, Ashton Brothers, Richard Groenendijk, Släpstick and many others. He received several awards for his work, including the Scheveningen Cabaret Prize for Design in 1996.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Film Production

Costume Design:
1999  Kaandorp Zingt Kaandorp
2005  Droog Brood: Scènes voor de Mensen
2008  Droog Brood: Omwille van de Smeer
2008  Richard Groenendijk: Na de wedstrijd
2012  Brigitte Kaandorp: Zó

Costume Designer:
1999  Kaandorp Zingt Kaandorp
2005  Droog Brood: Scènes voor de Mensen
2005  Richard Groenendijk: De Adem van de Nachtchinees
2008  Droog Brood: Omwille van de Smeer
2008  Richard Groenendijk: Na de wedstrijd
2012  Brigitte Kaandorp: Zó

Decorator:
1999  Kaandorp Zingt Kaandorp
2005  Droog Brood: Scènes voor de Mensen
2005  Richard Groenendijk: De Adem van de Nachtchinees
2008  Droog Brood: Omwille van de Smeer
2008  Richard Groenendijk: Na de wedstrijd
2012  Brigitte Kaandorp: Zó

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.