Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema

Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema was born on Apr 03, 1917 in East Indies. Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema's big-screen debut came with My Dear Secretary directed by Charles Martin in 1948, strarring Newspaper Publisher (uncredited). Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema is known for Soldier of Orange directed by Paul Verhoeven, Rutger Hauer stars as Erik Lanshof and Jeroen Krabbé as Guus LeJeune. The upcoming new movie Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema plays is Soldier of Orange which will be released on Jun 22, 1979.

Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema is the son of Siebren Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema and Cornelia Vreede. Born in Java while it was still a Dutch colony. During the 1930s he hitch-hiked across the United States and wrote his first book "Rendezvous in San Francisco" which became a non-fiction best-seller in the Netherlands. A student of law at Leiden University, when WW11 broke out he escaped from Holland and participated in secret landings along the Dutch coast. This later became the basis for his autobiographical book 'Soldaat van Oranje' which was published in Holland in 1970 by the Forum Boekerij. He later joined the RAF as a Pathfinder Mosquito pilot, and ended the war by returning to the Netherlands as an aide to the then-reigning Queen, Wilhelmina. He emigrated to the United States and in 1951 started working for NBC Television on the 'Today Show', later on 'Tonight' and 'Home'. He became Director of Radio Free Europe in Munich. In 1960 he started Intertel, multi-national television company with mobile units, in Spain, Germany and the UK. Since 1968 he has devoted his time to writing books. The first version of 'Soldaat van Oranje was titled 'De Hol van de Ratelslang'. He wrote a column 'De Verre Tambour' for De Telegraaf, Hollands' largest newspaper. He now lives in Hawaii.