Gerard Rutten

Gerardus Maria Rutten was born in The Hague on 19 July 1902, the son of the engineer-architect Kornelis Rutten. Trained at the academy of fine arts of his city, a decorator and graphic artist in the early twenties, he left at the end of the decade to learn filmmaking at the UFA academy in Berlin. Having gone to England during the war, he served from 1945 to 1948 as an officer attached to Queen Wilhelmina, then returned to fiction film. He published his memoirs in 1976 and died in Amsterdam on 28 June 1982.

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• Feature filmHet wonderlijke leven van Willem ParelGerard Rutten · 1955Cinema