Trivia

Won the Louis d'Or (the Dutch equivalent for the Tony Award for best actor) in 1975 and 1991.

Father of Jasper Faber.

The son of a German mother and a Dutch laborer.

Experienced a difficult childhood marked by domestic violence and left home at fifteen. The young Faber roamed the streets for two years and worked as a cleaner and dishwasher. Jobs lasting a maximum of six or seven weeks—until, on the advice of the local barber in Amsterdam-North, he eventually auditioned for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and, through the Het Zonnehuis theater, ended up in the theater world.

Faber taught at 'the Amsterdamse Theaterschool', 'de Kleinkunst Academie' and 'the Frank Sanders Musical Academie'.

To mark his 65th birthday in October 2008, Faber was gifted the Peter Faber Foundation by the producers of the musical *Man of La Mancha*. The foundation was formally established on April 18, 2009. Its aim is to make a positive contribution to the self-awareness and outlook of at-risk youth—who often find themselves in hopeless situations—through theater projects, training sessions, and workshops.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Faber became a highly recognizable actor with the general public, in addition to being a respected stage actor. In 1984, he appeared as the father, Cor Vrijmoeth, in the family drama "Ciske de Rat". He also played the father figure—the character John Gisberts—in the hit film "Schatjes!" and its sequel, "Mama is boos!".

Faber participated in 2018 in the RTL television program "Beter laat dan nooit" alongside Gerard Cox, Barrie Stevens, and Willibrord Frequin, among others. In the show, the four men traveled together for a month. The program was a success for RTL, and the collaboration with the men resumed in 2020 for a second season.

Peter Faber conducted workshops in prisons with his son Jesse. "Young men with a criminal past often want to change but don't quite know how. We give them a helping hand in a playful way, always guided by the motto: 'I can do it, I'm doing it, I want to do it—now!'".

In the second half of the 1970s, Faber emerged as one of the most prominent Dutch film actors, playing lead roles in a large number of Dutch feature films within a short span of time. He had a significant supporting role alongside Monique van de Ven and Rutger Hauer in "Keetje Tippel" (1975), and in the years that followed, he starred in "Max Havelaar" (1976), and "Doctor Vlimmen" (1978). The title role in "Max Havelaar"—a film by Fons Rademakers based on the novel by Multatuli—was one of the most important roles of his early film career. He spent several months in Indonesia for this Dutch-Indonesian production.