Biography

Jan Cremer was born on April 20, 1940 in Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands. He was an actor and director, known for The Long White Trail (1972), Een zondag op het eiland van de Grande Jatte (1965) and La douceur du village (1970). He was married to Babette Cremer-Sijmons and Hester le Clercq. He died on June 19, 2024 in Netherlands.

In 2020, Cremer received the Amsterdam Frans Bannink Cocq medal, an award for people who have made a special contribution to Amsterdam for at least twelve years.

He studied at the art academies in Arnhem, The Hague and Paris.

Jan Cremer was a Dutch author, photographer and painter.

His best known work is the novel "Ik, Jan Cremer" (1964) and the sequel "Ik, Jan Cremer, tweede boek" 1966). The publication of this book created scandal in the Netherlands because of its explicit sexual contents. The majority of critics were shocked by the book, and parents forbade their children to read it.

In 1963 Cremer and painter Rik van Bentum made an obscure comic strip together about the Profumo scandal, which appeared in print two years later.