Johan Kaart and Lau Ezerman in Don Quichot
Dutch postcard for the stage play Don Quichot op de Bruiloft van Kamatcho/ Don Quichot on the Wedding of Kamatcho (1711) by Pieter Langendijk, starring Lau Ezerman as Don Quichotte and Johan Kaart jr. as Sancho Panza. The play was performed by the Schouwburgtoneel of Jan Musch in the open air theatre in Valkenburg in 1920. In 1925 the play was performed again with Kaart as Sancho Panza at the Amsterdam open air theatre Frankendaal, this time by the company Vereenigd Tooneel.
Johan Kaart jr. (1897-1976) was a star in the Dutch entertainment world. He starred in seven films between 1934 and 1937, and after the war he played in several other Dutch films. He also worked often for radio and tv, but his main stage was the theatre.
Lau Ezerman (1892-1940) originally was a bank clerk playing at amateur stage companies in his spare time. In 1911 he visited the Theatre Academy, but two years after he was engaged at the new film studio Hollandia Filmfabriek in Haarlem and stopped his education. He started to play at the operetta company of Mertens & Kinsbergen, which was after his stage debut. Already as student of the theatre academy he played on 1 February 1912 the part of the Viscount de Jodelet in Molière's Precieuses ridicules. After a rather solid period between 1919 and 1936 at the Schouwtooneel and Nieuw Schouwtooneel, where he both acted and directed, he started to lead an errant existence, both privately and professionally. In 1938/39 Ezerman worked with his own company Hoofdstadtooneel. From the start of sound cinema in the Netherlands, Ezerman performed various parts in Dutch sound films as well, as in Willem van Oranje (Jan Teunissen 1934), Bleeke Bet (Alex Benno/ Richard Oswald 1934), Het meisje met den blauwe hoed (Rudolf Meinert 1934), Het leven is niet zo kwaad (Haro van Peski 1935), Lentelied (Simon Koster 1936), Vadertje Langbeen (Frederic Zelnik 1938) and Morgen gaat 't beter (Zelnik 1939). Ezerman's last film part was the train conductor in De spooktrein (Carl Lamac 1940). Lau Ezerman ended his life in January 1940 at the age of 47.
Sources: IMDB, wiki.theaterencyclopedie.nl/wiki/Lau_Ezerman
Johan Kaart and Lau Ezerman in Don Quichot
Dutch postcard for the stage play Don Quichot op de Bruiloft van Kamatcho/ Don Quichot on the Wedding of Kamatcho (1711) by Pieter Langendijk, starring Lau Ezerman as Don Quichotte and Johan Kaart jr. as Sancho Panza. The play was performed by the Schouwburgtoneel of Jan Musch in the open air theatre in Valkenburg in 1920. In 1925 the play was performed again with Kaart as Sancho Panza at the Amsterdam open air theatre Frankendaal, this time by the company Vereenigd Tooneel.
Johan Kaart jr. (1897-1976) was a star in the Dutch entertainment world. He starred in seven films between 1934 and 1937, and after the war he played in several other Dutch films. He also worked often for radio and tv, but his main stage was the theatre.
Lau Ezerman (1892-1940) originally was a bank clerk playing at amateur stage companies in his spare time. In 1911 he visited the Theatre Academy, but two years after he was engaged at the new film studio Hollandia Filmfabriek in Haarlem and stopped his education. He started to play at the operetta company of Mertens & Kinsbergen, which was after his stage debut. Already as student of the theatre academy he played on 1 February 1912 the part of the Viscount de Jodelet in Molière's Precieuses ridicules. After a rather solid period between 1919 and 1936 at the Schouwtooneel and Nieuw Schouwtooneel, where he both acted and directed, he started to lead an errant existence, both privately and professionally. In 1938/39 Ezerman worked with his own company Hoofdstadtooneel. From the start of sound cinema in the Netherlands, Ezerman performed various parts in Dutch sound films as well, as in Willem van Oranje (Jan Teunissen 1934), Bleeke Bet (Alex Benno/ Richard Oswald 1934), Het meisje met den blauwe hoed (Rudolf Meinert 1934), Het leven is niet zo kwaad (Haro van Peski 1935), Lentelied (Simon Koster 1936), Vadertje Langbeen (Frederic Zelnik 1938) and Morgen gaat 't beter (Zelnik 1939). Ezerman's last film part was the train conductor in De spooktrein (Carl Lamac 1940). Lau Ezerman ended his life in January 1940 at the age of 47.
Sources: IMDB, wiki.theaterencyclopedie.nl/wiki/Lau_Ezerman