# Dick Rienstra

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{{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](/source/Assen), Netherlands
| death_date         = 4 July 2021 (aged 80)
| years_active       = 1975–2006
| notable_works      = [Flodders in America](/source/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](/source/KRO) program, and in 1962 on the TV, in a [VARA](/source/Omroepvereniging_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''](/source/Snip_en_Snap). With the Amsterdams Volkstoneel he performed in the musical ''[De Jantjes](/source/De_Jantjes_(musical))'', and later formed a musical duo called De Jantjes as well. He was a contender in the preliminaries for the [Eurovision Song Contest](/source/Netherlands_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1977) 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](/source/Flodders_in_America)'' (1992) and played the lead in the [EO](/source/Evangelische_Omroep) 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](/source/Keetje_Tippel)'' || Cop || Uncredited
|-
|1977|| ''[A Bridge Too Far](/source/A_Bridge_Too_Far_(film))'' || Captain Krafft ||
|-
|1992|| ''[Flodders in America](/source/Flodders_in_America)'' || Captain ||
|-
|1998|| ''Ngo si seoi'' || Army ||
|-
|2006|| ''Sinterklaas en het Uur van de Waarheid'' || Commissaris ||
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb name|0726292}}

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Category:1941 births
Category:2021 deaths
Category:Dutch male singers
Category:Male actors from Drenthe
Category:People from Assen

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