Director

Rien van Wijk

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 2

TMDB ID: 2556927

Known for: Directing

Place of birth: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

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Career span: 1978 - 1983

Years active: 6

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Biography

Rien van Wijk is an influential Dutch director and producer, who is best known as the 'father' of Toppop. He has had a major influence on the development of music on Dutch television. Furthermore, his characteristic, experimental style with the use of many image effects has been widely imitated; Until then, making television in the Netherlands was mainly a matter of 'recording' without any frills. Toppop was chosen by readers of Televizier at the beginning of this century as the best television program of the 20th century.

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