Johan Heinrich (Joop) Doderer (28 August 1921 â€" 22 September 2005)
was a Dutch actor, well known for his role as the tramp Swiebertje in
the eponymous television series. The series ran for 17 seasons between
1955 and 1975, and was broadcast by the NCRV. Beside the role as
Swiebertje, Doderer played in dozens of radio and television programs,
he played the role of Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady, acted in Dutch
and English movies, and appeared on stage in comedies, musicals,
cabaret and dramas.Doderer was born in Velsen, but brought up in
Amsterdam. After finishing the Hogereburgerschool, he persuaded his
parents to let him take acting lessons. In 1939, aged 18, the
Amsterdam acting school rejected him for 'lack of talent'. Instead, he
started his acting career as an extra at the Nederlandsch Toneel,
which enabled him to study actors like Cor van der Lugt Melsert.After
World War II, he played in many comedies and musicals. For seven
years, he was part of the ensemble of Wim Sonneveld, where he met his
first wife Conny Stuart. He also acted in some movies (Het Wonderlijke
leven van Willem Parel, 1959) and featured on the radio (De bonte
dinsdagavondtrein and Koek en ei). From the 1950s onwards, Doderer was
a star. He often ad-libbed on stage, to the amusement of the audience,
but not of his co-players. At age 52 he married the 21-year-old Ester.
Together they had two children.Between 1955 and 1975 he played
Swiebertje on television. In 2001, the series was given the one-time
only Signaal award for the best television show in the past 50 years
by the Dutch television viewers. Doderer was quite proud of his fame
as Swiebertje, although it took him many years after the end of the
series to look back positively (see below). In 2003, a bust of
Swiebertje was placed in the town of Oudewater, where many of the
outdoor scenes of the series were shot. Joop Doderer Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter