Han Peekel (6 October 1947 – 14 December 2022) was a Dutch television producer, writer, radio- and television presenter. He was best known as presenter of television programs as and . Peekel also produced television shows and wrote books.

Biography

Peekel started in the 1960s as a singer of Dutch songs and was presenter at

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. He became known for his television appearances. The television program ''Wordt Vervolgd'' about comics and cartoons started in 1983 and Peekel presented the program for seventeen years. Peekel also collaborated with Wouter Strips and Joop Wiggers on a TV adaptation of

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' '' Jack, Jacky and the Juniors''. From 2009 he was the presenter of ''TV Monument'', a documentary TV series about Dutch TV makers. On 18 December 2012, Peekel became Knight of the

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for his services to television, radio and cabaret. He received the award from the mayor of

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. Peekel died of heart failure during a holiday in Sanur at the Indonesian island

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on 14 December 2022, at the age of 75.

Comic cameo appearances

Peekel had a

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in the comics *As a colleague of in album 12 of Jack, Jacky and the Juniors. *As a courtier at the court of

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in the

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album '.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Peekel, Han 1947 births 2022 deaths Dutch male singers Dutch-language singers Dutch radio presenters Dutch writers Dutch television producers Dutch television presenters Comics scholars People from Rotterdam 20th-century Dutch people