Jan de Hartog 2 pictures

Writer, Actor
The son of a minister, de Hartog ran away to sea twice in his boyhood. Later, after attending the Netherlands Naval College, he went back to sea as a sailor. During this time he wrote detective stories and then a popular novel about tugboat crews titled "Holland's Glory". During the Nazi occupation he found sanctuary in a house in Amsterdam. After...

Born: April 22, 1914
Star sign: Taurus
Known for: The Four Poster (1952), Skipper Next to God (1951), The Key (1958), The Spiral Road (1962)
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