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Willem Duys

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Willem Duys (1928 to 2011) was a Dutch radio and television presenter, commentator, tennis player and music producer, born in Bussum. After a first career as a tennis player he began writing for music magazines and became an announcer on AVRO in 1956, then a television presenter in 1959. From 1963 until 1979 he presented the program Voor de Vuist Weg, generally considered the first talk show on Dutch television, for which he received the Gouden Televizierring in 1974. He commented on the Eurovision Song Contest for Dutch viewers in eight years, presented the Sunday morning radio show Muziek Mozaiek for four decades and worked for AVRO for more than forty years. He retired in 1999 after a cerebral infarction and died in Hilversum.

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1928 1
Death Year
2011 1
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Gouden Televizierring 1
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was a Dutch radio and television presenter
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    Willem Duys (17 August 1928
  • Lead sentence [death-year]
    2 June 2011) was a Dutch radio and television presenter
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    was a Dutch radio and television presenter
  • Career
    In 1974 he received the Gouden Televizierring for this program.
  • Associated With: Radio, Lead sentence [associated-with]
    was a Dutch radio and television presenter, commentator, tennis player and music producer
  • Associated With: Television, Lead sentence [associated-with]
    was a Dutch radio and television presenter, commentator, tennis player and music producer
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