Theo Uittenbogaard

Theo Uittenbogaard (born Amstelveen, Nieuwer-Amstel, Netherlands, 1946) is a Dutch radio & TV-producer, who worked for almost all nationwide public networks in The Netherlands since 1965. His training was on-the-job, since no school or academy geared to that profession existed in The Netherlands those days. He started as a 19-year-old apprentice reporter for a daily radio news-show. 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 the next decades. In a wide variety and range of shows, as a director, as a contributor, as an editor, as an executive-producer alternately. He traveled the world from Siberia [[1]] to The Marshall Islands[2] to report, from Panama[3] and Morocco[[4]] to just around the corner.[5] He did shows and documentaries on countries, people, history, politics, dance, music.[6] In 1984 he directed for VPRO-tv an iconic concerto by Ástor Piazzolla, [[7]] the renowned bandoneon-player from Argentina. He did a documentary on Boat People from Vietnam.[8] He made a 16-episodes series on Dutch language.[9] He wrote a comedy on housekeeping.[10] And about 250 productions more. He retired in 2013, after a fifty years spanning career in media.

Uittenbogaard (1975)