Jan de Bont

Born October 22, 1943· Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

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Emerging from a large Roman-Catholic family in Eindhoven, the Dutch filmmaker studied at the Amsterdam Film Academy where he collaborated with avant-garde director Adriaan Ditvoorst, launching a career that first gained notice in the Netherlands with the controversial Blue Movie (1971) and Paul Verhoeven’s Turkish Delight (1973). He later became a sought-after cinematographer in Hollywood, shootin…

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