Theo Uittenbogaard (born Amstelveen, Nieuwer-Amstel, Netherlands, 1946 – 22 April 2022) was a Dutch radio and television producer who worked for almost all nationwide public networks in the Netherlands from 1965.

Career

Uittenbogaard's training was on-the-job, since no school or academy geared to that profession existed in the Netherlands at that time. He started as a 19-year-old apprentice reporter for a daily radio news-show and he made radio documentaries and variety shows. In 1969, he was invited to contribute to a television magazine, which portrayed interesting ordinary people. He remained working for television over the next decades for a wide variety of shows, as a director, as a contributor, as an editor, as an executive-producer alternately. He created the game show ''Één van de acht'' ("''One of the Eight''"), which became the basis for the BBC game show ''

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''. Uittenbogaard traveled the world from

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to the

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to report, from

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and

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to just around the corner. He did shows and documentaries on countries, people, history, politics, dance and music. In 1984, he directed for VPRO-tv an iconic concerto by

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, the renowned bandoneon-player from Argentina. He did a documentary on Boat People from Vietnam. He made a 16-episodes series on Dutch language. He wrote a comedy on housekeeping and about 250 more productions. He retired in 2013, after a 50 year career in media.

References

External links

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Biography at media-archives ''Beeld en Geluid'', Hiversum, NetherlandsOeuvre at ''Beeld en Geluid''YouTube Channel
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