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Jan Teunissen

Known For
Editing

Known Credits
1

Gender
Male

Birthday
April 15, 1898 (128 years old)

Place of Birth
Den Haag

Jan Teunissen

Biography

Gerardus Johannes 'Jan' Teunissen (1898 - 1975) was a Dutch film director. He made his debut as a director in the early 1930s with short avant-garde films Pierement (1931) and Sjabbos (1932). On request, he then directed the first official Dutch sound film: Willem van Oranje. When the film flopped, he gave up on being a director and worked as an editor on a number of Dutch feature films.

In the first years of the Second World War Teunissen joined Anton Mussert's National Socialist Movement (NSB) and became the head of the Filmgilde, producing a number of National Socialist propaganda films. Soon after this he became head of the Rijksfilmkeuring and was offered an honorary membership of the Dutch SS.

Because of his collaboration with the Germans, Teunissen was banned from the profession of film director after the war and received a prison sentence of several years.

Known For

Directing

1944Een Dag Vol Spanning...Director
1935De big van het regiment...Co-Director
1934William of Orange...Director
1931Pierement...Director

Editing

1940Somewhere in the Netherlands...Editor
1939The Ghost Train...Editor
1939Tomorrow It Will Be Better...Editor
1938Daddy Long Legs...Editor
1938Forty Years...Editor
1937Pygmalion...Editor
1937Amsterdam bij nacht...Editor
1936Op een avond in mei...Editor
1936Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood...Editor

Writing

1934William of Orange...Scenario Writer

Acting

2025The Propagandistas Self (archive footage)