Bernard Gerrit (Burny) Bos (

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

, 8 April 1944) is a Dutch

producer Producer or producers may refer to: Occupations *Producer (agriculture), a farm operator *A stakeholder of economic production *Film producer, supervises the making of films **Executive producer, contributes to a film's budget and usually does not ...

scenarist A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. T ...

and children's book writer. He also works as an actor in children's programmes on radio and T.V.

Career

Bos started working with the

AVRO AVRO, short for Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep ("General Association of Radio Broadcasting"), was a Dutch public broadcasting association operating within the framework of the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep system. It was the first public broad ...

-radio. In 1975 he received an honorable mention from the "Zilveren Reissmicrofoon" jury for the '' Ko de boswachtershow'' (radio) and in 1977 for '' Radio Lawaaipapegaai''. In 1981 the

Zilveren Nipkowschijf Zilveren Nipkowschijf (; "Silver Nipkow Disk", named for German television pioneer Paul Gottlieb Nipkow) is a Dutch television award that has been given out since 1961 by a selection of Dutch critics. The three founding critics were Henk Schaafsma ...

jury gave him another honorable mention for the TV-series ''Lawaaipapegaai''. In 1983 he received the Zilveren Reissmicrofoon for his entire radio-oeuvre. From 1984 till 1989 Bos was the head of the youth department in the VPRO. Under his supervision programs like '' Theo en Thea'', '' Mevrouw Ten Kate'', '' Max Laadvermogen'', '' Rembo en Rembo'', '' Achterwerk in de kast'' and '' Buurman Bolle'' developed. In 1989 he began his own company BosBros and he signed another year contract with the

. For the AVRO he produced programmes like '' Het Zakmes'','' Kinderen van waterland'', '' Dag Juf, tot morgen'', de '' Ko de boswachtershow'', ''Hoe laat begint het schilderij'', ''

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'' and ''Otje''. He was proclaimed as the "broadcaster of the year" in 1998.Eva Jinek is Omroepvrouw van het Jaar 2017
Mediacourant, 8 January 2018 In the recent years, he is focused on producing films. Working with his society Bos Bros, he produced a number of books by Annie M.G. Schmidt to family films. He received the Gouden Kalf film prize for the best feature film in 1999 with ''

The Flying Liftboy ''The Flying Liftboy'' ( nl, Abeltje) is a 1998 in film, 1998 Netherlands, Dutch film directed by Ben Sombogaart. The film was based on the 1953 Dutch children's book ''Abeltje'' by Annie M. G. Schmidt. It won the Golden Calf (award), Golden Calf ...

'' (''Abeltje'') and in 2002 with '' Undercover Kitty'' (''Minoes''). Schmidt's books ''Otje'' and '' Ibbeltje'' were adapted into a television series. Burny Bos was the guest of honor at the

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in late September 2007. For that occasion he asked director

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to direct the short film '' Een trui voor kip Saar ''. He also showed that he was worried about the future of the youth film in Netherlands. Quality films are becoming increasingly difficult to make. According to him, the children's genre on television and in the cinema suffers from " ploppification".

Radio programmes

* '' Ko de Boswachtershow'' (1974-1984) * '' Radio Lawaaipapegaai'' (1976-1978)

Television programmes

* "De Lawaaipapegaai presenteert: "Papelagaaiwaai" (1978-1982) *

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- Central presentation as Lange Jaap (1984/1985) *

Opzoek naar Yolanda ''Opzoek naar Yolanda'' was a Dutch dramady television show by Wim T. Schippers, consisting of six episodes aired by the VPRO from October to December 1984. The show (a parody of sitcoms and soap operas, like most of Schippers' shows) was a cont ...

- Lange Jaap (1984) * Buurman Bolle - Verteller (1989) * Ko de Boswachtershow - Ko de Boswachter (television series) (1990) * Studio Trappelzak * Hoe laat begint het schilderij * Dag huis, dag tuin, dag opbergschuur * Lawaai Papegaai (television version of this radio programme) (also with

Wieteke van Dort Louisa Johanna Theodora van Dort (born May 16, 1943 in Surabaya, Dutch East Indies) is a Dutch actress, comedian, singer, writer and artist of Indo (Eurasian) descent. On April 29, 1999, Queen Beatrix appointed her ''Knight of the Order of Orange ...

)

Bibliography

*''Knofje, waar zit je?'' (1980) *''Oma Fladder'' (1981) *''Klim maar op mijn rug zei de krokodil'' (1982) *''Circus Grote Meneer'' (1985) *''Professor Koosje'' (1986) *''Bonkie en Uk'' (1987) *''Kikker in je bil die er nooit meer uit wil'' (1987) *''Professor Koosje bolleboosje'' (1987) *''De groeten van Knofje'' (1988) *''Dubbeldik zand op je boterham'' (1990) *''Mijn vader woont in Rio'' (1990) *''Valentino de kikker'' (1990) *''Familie Mol-de-Mol staat er goed op'' (1994) *''Bij de familie Mol-de-Mol is alles oké ''(1995) *''Familie Mol-de-Mol zit hoog en droog'' (1995) *''Ot Jan Dikkie!'' (1997) *''Alexander de Grote'', Pluim van de maand (January 2001)

Filmography

*'' Kinderen van Waterland'' (television series) (1990) *'' Het Zakmes'' (both film and television series) (1992) *''

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'' (1992) *'' Dag juf, tot morgen ''(television series) (1995) *'' Captain Cockpit'' (1994) *'' De jongen die niet meer praatte'' (both film and television series) (1995) *''

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'' (1996) *''

''(television series) (1996) *'' Otje'' (television series) (1998) *''

''(both film and television series) (1998) *'' Knofje'' (television series) (2001) *'' Undercover Kitty'' (both film and television series) (2001) *'' Ja zuster, nee zuster'' (both film and television series) (2002) *'' Pluk van de Petteflet'' (both film and television series) (2004) *'' Ibbeltje'' (television series) (2004) *''

Het paard van Sinterklaas ''Winky's Horse'' ( nl, Het paard van Sinterklaas) is a 2005 Dutch language, Dutch children's film. It was released in the Netherlands on 12 October 2005 and received a re-release the following year. ''Winky's Horse'' received multiple award nomi ...

'' (2005) *''

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'' (2006) *'' Een trui voor kip Saar ''(2007) *'' Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas?'' (2007) *'' Wiplala'' (2014)

References

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films and television series
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bos, Burny Living people 1944 births Dutch screenwriters Dutch male screenwriters 20th-century Dutch male writers 21st-century Dutch male writers Dutch film producers Dutch children's writers