Dick Rienstra, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Dick Rienstra

Dutch actor

Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1941

Place of Birth: Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands

Profession: actor, singer, television actor, film actor

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Dick Rienstra (Assen, 1941) is a Dutch singer and actor. Rienstra began his musical career in a local group, The Double S Combo, where he sang and played guitar, clarinet, and saxophone.
In 1960 he debuted on the radio in a KRO program, and in 1962 on the TV, in a VARA talent show.
He moved to Amsterdam in 1963 and got a job in a musical comedy production as a singer and an actor in skits, and in 1966 signed with the Snip en Snap Revue.
With the Amsterdams Volkstoneel he performed in the musical De Jantjes, and later formed a musical duo called De Jantjes as well.
He was a contender in the preliminaries for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977, and after that performed in the theater and in minor roles on television.
He played a role in the comedy film Flodders in America (1992) and played the lead in the EO drama series De laatste carrier (1994).