21/05/2024
Actor and musician Frank Schaafsma has handed away. A superb good friend of the actor confirmed this on Tuesday ANP, after Schaafsma’s household reported his dying on a personal Fb web page. Schaafsma is 59 years previous.
“It’s with unhappiness that we announce the sudden, pure dying of Frank Schaafsma on Saturday, Might 18,” the actor’s household reviews on the personal Fb web page. “We’re shocked, however take consolation within the expectation that he has discovered peace after a life that he frequently mentioned was ‘not straightforward’.”
Schaafsma grew to become identified in 1984 for the function of Thijs Gisberts within the profitable cinema movie Infants! by Ruud van Hemert. Later he additionally appeared in a number of movies and performed roles in collection resembling Spijkerhoek, Bureau Kruislaan, We’re house once more, Fight in Good occasions Dangerous Occasions.
Completely satisfied reminiscences
Director Will Koopman is shocked by the information that Schaafsma has died, she advised the ANP when requested. The director labored with Schaafsma, who died on Saturday, for the collection Bureau Kruislaan and Fight.
“I used to be very shocked after I learn that he had handed away. I needed to learn it a number of occasions,” Koopman responds. “Frank was a really good particular person to work with. I’ve very fond reminiscences of him.”
Bass guitarist
Along with being an actor, Schaafsma was additionally a bass guitarist in numerous Dutch bands.
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