{{Short description|Dutch singer and actor (1941–2021)}}{{Infobox actor | name = Dick Rienstra | image = Songfestival Dick Rienstra, Bestanddeelnr 929-0092.jpg | caption = Rienstra in 1977 | birth_date = 9 February 1941 | birth_place = Assen, Netherlands | death_date = 4 July 2021 (aged 80) | years_active = 1975–2006 | notable_works = Flodders in America (1992) }}
'''Dick Rienstra''' (1941 – 2021) was a Dutch singer and actor. Rienstra began his musical career in a local group, The Double S Combo, where he sang and played guitar, clarinet, and saxophone. In 1960 he debuted on the radio in a KRO program, and in 1962 on the TV, in a VARA talent show. He moved to Amsterdam in 1963 and got a job in a musical comedy production as a singer and an actor in skits, and in 1966 signed with the ''Snip en Snap Revue''. With the Amsterdams Volkstoneel he performed in the musical ''De Jantjes'', and later formed a musical duo called De Jantjes as well. He was a contender in the preliminaries for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977, and after that performed in the theater and in minor roles on television. He played a role in the comedy film ''Flodders in America'' (1992) and played the lead in the EO drama series ''De laatste carrier'' (1994).<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedie van Drenthe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MAbopMMUa2wC&pg=PA771|year=2003|publisher=Van Gorcum|isbn=9789023239321|page=771|chapter=Rienstra, Dick}}</ref>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1975|| ''Keetje Tippel'' || Cop || Uncredited |- |1977|| ''A Bridge Too Far'' || Captain Krafft || |- |1992|| ''Flodders in America'' || Captain || |- |1998|| ''Ngo si seoi'' || Army || |- |2006|| ''Sinterklaas en het Uur van de Waarheid'' || Commissaris || |}
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0726292}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rienstra, Dick}} Category:1941 births Category:2021 deaths Category:Dutch male singers Category:Male actors from Drenthe Category:People from Assen