Johannes Adrianus Maria (Hans) van Tongeren (January 18, 1955, Breda

Breda

Breda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. The name Breda derived from brede Aa and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. As a fortified city, the city was of strategic military and political significance...

 - August 25, 1982, Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

) was a Dutch movie actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

, who made his debut in the 1980 Paul Verhoeven movie Spetters

Spetters

Spetters is a Dutch film released in 1980 directed by Paul Verhoeven.Spetters led to many protests across the board about the caricatural manner in which Verhoeven portrayed gays, Christians, the police, and the press. Although Verhoeven made one more film in the Netherlands, the response to...

.

Van Tongeren was born in Breda

Breda

Breda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. The name Breda derived from brede Aa and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. As a fortified city, the city was of strategic military and political significance...

 and was recommended to Joop van den Ende

Joop van den Ende

Johannes "Joop" Adrianus van den Ende is a Dutch media tycoon, theatrical producer, co-founder of Endemol and founder/owner of Stage Entertainment....

 for the role of "Rien" in Spetters by casting

Casting

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-director Hans Kemna. The character Rien is a talented motocross

Motocross

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er who is paralyzed in an accident and commits suicide

Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...

. Spetters was a very successful movie and van Tongeren was cast afterwards for several Dutch movies.

In 1982 van Tongeren starred with Peter Gallagher

Peter Gallagher

Peter Killian Gallagher is an American actor, musician and writer. Since 1980, Gallagher has played many roles in numerous Hollywood films. He starred as Sandy Cohen in the television drama series The O.C. from 2003 to 2007...

 and Daryl Hannah

Daryl Hannah

Daryl Christine Hannah is an American film actress. After making her screen debut in 1978, Hannah starred in a number of Hollywood films throughout the 1980s, notably Blade Runner, Splash, Wall Street and Roxanne and Kill Bill.-Early life:Hannah was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Susan...

 in the American

United States

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 movie Summer Lovers

Summer Lovers

Summer Lovers is a 1982 film written and directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah and Valerie Quennessen, and filmed on location on the island of Santorini, Greece. The original music score is composed by Basil Poledouris...

. Van Tongeren had been admitted to mental hospital

Mental Hospital

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s several times; according to the Dutch media he identified too much with his roles. On August 25, 1982 he committed suicide

Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...

, just after having been cast in a Nouchka van Brakel

Nouchka van Brakel

Nouchka van Brakel is a Dutch film director known for her 1982 movie Van de koele meren des doods. That movie, and a movie about Eve and a documentary about Mary, established her as an important Dutch feminist film director...

 film

Van de koele meren des doods (film)

Van de koele meren des doods is a Dutch film from 1982, directed by Nouchka van Brakel and based on the same-named novel by Frederik van Eeden. Book and film give an account of a bourgeois woman who struggles with her sexuality. The film is known internationally as Hedwig: The Quiet Lakes and The...

 after the novel Van de koele meren des doods

Van de koele meren des doods

Van de koele meren des doods is a Dutch novel by Frederik van Eeden, first published in 1900...

by Frederik van Eeden

Frederik van Eeden

Frederik Willem van Eeden was a late 19th century and early 20th century Dutch writer and psychiatrist...

, in which he would again have played a person committing suicide.

Filmography

• 1980 - Spetters
  Spetters
  Spetters is a Dutch film released in 1980 directed by Paul Verhoeven.Spetters led to many protests across the board about the caricatural manner in which Verhoeven portrayed gays, Christians, the police, and the press. Although Verhoeven made one more film in the Netherlands, the response to...
  
  
• 1982 - Summer Lovers
  Summer Lovers
  Summer Lovers is a 1982 film written and directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah and Valerie Quennessen, and filmed on location on the island of Santorini, Greece. The original music score is composed by Basil Poledouris...
  
  
• 1982 - De Smaak Van Water
• 1982 - Het Oponthoud
• 1983 - Pim