Actor and television maker Maarten Spanjer dies
His partner has confirmed the death of the 73-year-old actor to ANP.
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Maarten Spanjer died during the night from Friday to Saturday at the age of 73. His partner confirmed this to news agency ANP.
Spanjer was known to Dutch audiences for, among other things, the television programme Taxi and the 1980 film Spetters. He was also a writer. Both ANP and NOS reported his death on Saturday morning.
His television work can be found in the Beeld & Geluid archive. It includes the 1995 clip in which Spanjer drives actor Rijk de Gooyer and a Golden Calf award is thrown out of the taxi.
The available source excerpts confirm his death and some key details of his career. As several full source pages were inaccessible during verification, this report is limited to those verified details.
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The key details have been confirmed in publicly available search result snippets from ANP and NOS. Limited access to full pages prevents a more extensive, adequately substantiated article.
- confirmed Maarten Spanjer died at the age of 73 during the night of 16–17 October 2026; his partner confirmed this to ANP. — The ANP report of 17 October at 09:03 states his age, the confirmation and the night of his death. source
- confirmed Spanjer was an actor and writer known for Taxi and the 1980 film Spetters. — These career details appear in the ANP report; NOS also mentions Taxi and Spetters. source
- confirmed Beeld & Geluid documents the 1995 Taxi clip featuring Rijk de Gooyer and the Golden Calf award. — The archive description dates the footage in question to 1995. source
Editor's note
The death, age and confirmation by his partner were found in the ANP report. The insufficient_sources status concerns limited access to full sources for a more extensive article about his career; the core of this short report has been confirmed.Sources
- Acteur en schrijver Maarten Spanjer (73) overleden — ANP via Welingelichte Kringen
- Acteur en presentator Maarten Spanjer (73) overleden — NOS
- Rijk de Gooyer & Gouden Kalf: bekijk de beelden uit Taxi — Beeld & Geluid
More on this in Dutch media
- de Volkskrant — „maarten spanjer”
- RTL Nieuws — „maarten spanjer”
- NOS — „maarten spanjer”