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Thom Hoffman
Dutch actor and photographer
Thom Hoffman | |
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| Born | Thomas Antonius Cornelis Ancion (1957-03-03) 3 March 1957 (age 67) Wassenaar, Netherlands |
| Occupation(s) | Photographer, actor |
| Spouse | Giam Kwee (2005–present) |
Thomas Antonius Cornelis Ancion (born 3 March 1957), known by the pseudonym Thom Hoffman, is a Dutch actor and photographer.[1]
Biography
[edit]Hoffman acts mainly in serious roles, especially those of complicated characters. His film debut was Luger under director Theo van Gogh in 1982 and since then has played more than twenty roles in films and TV series. He calls himself "more of a hard worker than a good actor"; he never studied formally to become an actor.
Since 1991 he has worked in photography, also without professional training.
Hoffman married actress Giam Kwee on 30 July 2005.
Partial filmography
[edit]- 1981 Luger as Chris Luger
- 1982 Sprong naar de liefde as Freddy
- 1983 The Fourth Man as Herman
- 1984 De Witte Waan as Lazlo
- 1985 Tracks in the Snow as Ron
- 1986 Als in een Roes Diederik Van Avezaat
- 1986 45º parallelo as Tom
- 1986 The Washing Water as Maurice de Wilde
- 1987 Odyssée d'amour as Bart Buisman
- 1987 Looking for Eileen as Philip de Wit
- 1988 Shadowm
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Nigel Short (Athens) informs us:
‘This poor-quality image is the only one that I have. It appears that the book was a games collection, Nigel Short by R.A. Ziatdinov (Tashkent, 1993), and that most of the copies were destroyed in a flood, although about 100 were sent to Turkey.’
We shall be glad to hear from any reader who has the volume.
Addition on 9 April 2020:
Reporting that he has a signed copy of the Ziatdinov book, Rudy Bloemhard (Apeldoorn, the Netherlands) has sent us a selection of images, including the following:
Mr Bloemhard adds:
‘There is no reference to a publisher or an ISBN number. The book, published in 1993, is 96 pages long and contains about 350 unannotated games.’
11800. Magazine references
Readers may appreciate the opportunity to follow up on some of the references in Chess Articles in Periodical Literature by Horace E. McFarland (St Louis, 1928):
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