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(VSCD), the main

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for

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s in The Netherlands. The award itself is a golden medal, currently designed by Eric Claus. It was named after the Dutch actor

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. Its female counterpart is the

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. The Louis d'Or is awarded annually, along with the other VSCD stage awards, at the Gala of Dutch Theater in the

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Jury

The jury is compiled of theater programmers, producers and critics, who have explicitly provided themselves in their relative disciplines. Jurors can take part of a jury for maximal six years. New jurors can be nominated by the jury itself or be appointed by the board of the VSCD.

Award winners

* 1955: Paul Steenbergen * 1956: Han Bentz van den Berg * 1957:

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* 1958: Han Bentz van den Berg * 1959: Paul Steenbergen * 1960: Paul Steenbergen * 1961: Bob de Lange * 1962: ''not awarded'' * 1963:

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* 1964: Han Bentz van den Berg * 1965: Paul Steenbergen * 1966: ''not awarded'' * 1967: Eric Schneider * 1968: Ton Lutz * 1969: Hans Tiemeyer * 1970:

Henk van Ulsen Henk van Ulsen (8 May 1927, Kampen (Overijssel), Kampen – 28 August 2009, Bussum) was a Dutch actor. He won the Louis d'Or (award), Louis d'Or for best male stage actor in 1970. References External links

* 1927 births 2009 death ...

* 1971: Wim van der Grijn en Hans Dagelet * 1972: Guido de Moor * 1973: André van den Heuvel * 1974:

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* 1975:

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on behalf of the Werkteater * 1976:

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* 1977: Carol Linssen * 1978: Eric van der Donk * 1979: Jules Croiset * 1980: Hans Croiset * 1981: Gees Linnebank * 1982: Joop Admiraal * 1983: Ton Lutz * 1984: John Kraaijkamp sr. * 1985:

* 1986: Guido de Moor * 1987: Guido de Moor * 1988: Carol van Herwijnen * 1989: Guido de Moor * 1990: Peter Oosthoek * 1991: Peter Faber * 1992: André van den Heuvel * 1993:

Gijs Scholten van Aschat Gijs Scholten van Aschat (born 16 September 1959) is a Dutch actor. He has appeared in more than sixty films since 1980. He is the father of Reinout Scholten van Aschat. Selected filmography References External links * Gijs Scholten ...

* 1994:

Pierre Bokma Pierre Henri Martin Bokma (born 20 December 1955 in Paris) is a Dutch stage, television and film actor. Bokma received his professional training at the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts. In November 2007 he won an International Emmy Award f ...

* 1995:

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* 1996:

Victor Löw Victor Löw (born 25 August 1962 in Amsterdam; originally ''Victor Löwenstein''), is a Dutch people, Dutch actor. Victor Löw studied at Studio Herman Teirlinck in Antwerp. He played his first small part in The Northerners. After that he playe ...

* 1997: Herman Gilis * 1998: Peter De Graef * 1999:

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* 2000:

Bram van der Vlugt Bram van der Vlugt (28 May 1934 – 19 December 2020) was a Dutch actor. He is known for playing the role of Sinterklaas for over two decades. He died on 19 December 2020, at the age of 86, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic ...

* 2001: Steven Van Watermeulen * 2002:

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* 2003:

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* 2004:

Jeroen Willems Jeroen Willems (; 15 November 1962 – 3 December 2012) was a Dutch Golden Calf and Louis d'Or winning film, TV, and stage actor and singer. Early life Willems was born on 15 November 1962 in Maastricht, the third child of a drama teacher and a ...

* 2005:

Mark Rietman Mark Rietman (born 28 November 1960) is a Dutch actor. He appeared in more than forty films since 1985. Selected filmography References External links * 1960 births Living people Dutch male film actors 20th-century Dutch people ...

* 2006: Joop Keesmaat * 2007:

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* 2008:

Hans Kesting Hans Kesting (born 6 October 1960) is a Dutch actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1987. He was diagnosed with HIV in 1996. In 2016, he was awarded the Louis d'Or (award), Louis d'Or.https://tga.nl/media/acteurs/persknipsels_acteurs_i ...

* 2009:

* 2010:

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* 2011:

Jacob Derwig Jacob Derwig (The Hague, 15 July 1969) is a Dutch actor. Film and television He recently played roles in box-office hit Family Way (2012) (for which he won a Golden Calf), The Dinner (2013), Public Works (2015), and in the highly popular Dutc ...

* 2012: Hein van der Heijden * 2013:

* 2014:

* 2015:

Ramsey Nasr Ramsey Nasr (born 28 January 1974) is a Dutch author and actor of mixed Palestinian and Dutch descent. He was born in Rotterdam. He was ' (Poet of the Fatherland; an unofficial title for the Dutch poet laureate) between January 2009 and January ...

* 2016:

* 2017: Hans Croiset * 2018: Bruno Vanden Broecke * 2019: Ramsy Nasr * 2020: ''not awarded'' * 2021:

Emmanuel Ohene Boafo Emmanuel Ohene Boafo (born 4 July 1993) is a Dutch-Ghanaian actor. He plays the Dutch voice of Black Panther in the What if...? animation series and in 2021 he became the first black actor to win the prestigious Louis d'Or, for his version of the ...

* 2022: Bram Suijker

References

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External links

Homepage of the VSCD stage awards

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Awards established in 1955 Dutch awards Theatre acting awards 1955 establishments in the Netherlands