About: Willem Duys

An Entity of Type: person, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Willem Duys (17 August 1928 – 2 June 2011) was a Dutch radio and television presenter, commentator, tennis player and music producer. Duys was born in Bussum. He first started a career as a tennis player. Having made the final NK Older Youth (Van Lennep Cup) in 1946, he won the Spieghel Hilversum and Heide B tournament, took the semi-finals Plaswijck Kralingen and won the B tournament in Rotterdam. He also reached the final three men's doubles Flehite A with and was 1956 men's singles champion Unilever (following Jan de Soet).

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Willem DUYS [Vilem Dojs] (Bussum, 17-an de aŭgusto 1928 - Hilversum, 2-an de junio 2011) estis nederlanda radio- kaj televidoprezentisto kaj muzikproduktisto. Li konatiĝis per sia televidoprogramo Voor de vuist weg (improvize/nepreparite) kaj per la radioprogramo Muziek mozaïek (muzika mozaiko). Duys ankaŭ komentis dum tenis- kaj kantkonkursoj. La lastaj jaroj Duys suferis pro la sekvoj de apopleksio. Willem Duys mortis la 2-an de junio 2011 pro la sekvoj de pneŭmonio. (eo)
  • Willem Duys (17 August 1928 – 2 June 2011) was a Dutch radio and television presenter, commentator, tennis player and music producer. Duys was born in Bussum. He first started a career as a tennis player. Having made the final NK Older Youth (Van Lennep Cup) in 1946, he won the Spieghel Hilversum and Heide B tournament, took the semi-finals Plaswijck Kralingen and won the B tournament in Rotterdam. He also reached the final three men's doubles Flehite A with and was 1956 men's singles champion Unilever (following Jan de Soet). After retiring from tennis in mid 1956 Duys began writing for various music magazines and was invited to act as an announcer on AVRO in 1956. He became a television presenter in 1959. From 1963 until 1979 he presented the TV program "Voor de Vuist Weg", generally considered to be the first talk show on Dutch television. In 1974 he received the for this program. He regularly presented the Grand Gala du Disque and was a commentator for large tennis matches. For eight years (1962, 1963, 1974–1976, 1978, 1979 and 1983) he was the regular Eurovision Song Contest Commentator for Dutch television viewers. Duys also presented the Sunday morning radio show "Muziek Mozaïek" for four decades. A TV version of that show ran for six seasons. In 1999, after a cerebral infarction, he retired. He worked for the AVRO for more than forty years. Willem Duys lived alternately in Saint-Paul, Alpes-Maritimes and Naarden and thereafter in Hilversum. He died in Hilversum on 2 June 2011 from a lung infection. (en)
  • Willem Duys (Bussum, 17 augustus 1928 – Hilversum, 2 juni 2011) was een Nederlands radio- en televisiepresentator en muziekproducent. (nl)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 31727251 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 3470 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1106302917 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:birthDate
  • 1928-08-17 (xsd:date)
dbp:birthPlace
dbp:caption
  • Duys in 1985 (en)
dbp:children
  • Malcolm Ernest (en)
  • Saskia Pauline (en)
dbp:deathDate
  • 2011-06-02 (xsd:date)
dbp:deathPlace
dbp:employer
dbp:name
  • Willem Duys (en)
dbp:nationality
dbp:occupation
dbp:spouse
  • Elizabeth Pauline Keylock (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
schema:sameAs
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Willem DUYS [Vilem Dojs] (Bussum, 17-an de aŭgusto 1928 - Hilversum, 2-an de junio 2011) estis nederlanda radio- kaj televidoprezentisto kaj muzikproduktisto. Li konatiĝis per sia televidoprogramo Voor de vuist weg (improvize/nepreparite) kaj per la radioprogramo Muziek mozaïek (muzika mozaiko). Duys ankaŭ komentis dum tenis- kaj kantkonkursoj. La lastaj jaroj Duys suferis pro la sekvoj de apopleksio. Willem Duys mortis la 2-an de junio 2011 pro la sekvoj de pneŭmonio. (eo)
  • Willem Duys (Bussum, 17 augustus 1928 – Hilversum, 2 juni 2011) was een Nederlands radio- en televisiepresentator en muziekproducent. (nl)
  • Willem Duys (17 August 1928 – 2 June 2011) was a Dutch radio and television presenter, commentator, tennis player and music producer. Duys was born in Bussum. He first started a career as a tennis player. Having made the final NK Older Youth (Van Lennep Cup) in 1946, he won the Spieghel Hilversum and Heide B tournament, took the semi-finals Plaswijck Kralingen and won the B tournament in Rotterdam. He also reached the final three men's doubles Flehite A with and was 1956 men's singles champion Unilever (following Jan de Soet). (en)
rdfs:label
  • Willem Duys (eo)
  • Willem Duys (nl)
  • Willem Duys (en)
owl:differentFrom
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is owl:differentFrom of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
pFad - Phonifier reborn

Pfad - The Proxy pFad of © 2024 Garber Painting. All rights reserved.

Note: This service is not intended for secure transactions such as banking, social media, email, or purchasing. Use at your own risk. We assume no liability whatsoever for broken pages.


Alternative Proxies:

Alternative Proxy

pFad Proxy

pFad v3 Proxy

pFad v4 Proxy