Waldemar Torenstra (Actor)

Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden

Goede tijden, slechte tijden, also known as GTST, is the longest-running Dutch soap opera, revolving around the lives of the families Alberts, Sanders, De Jong, Van Houten and Bouwhuis. It all takes place in the fictional town of Meerdijk.

Release Date1990-10-01

Charactersd Harry van Lennep

Episode Count5

Vote Count19

Grijpstra & de Gier

Release Date2004-03-19

Charactersd Rinus de Gier

Episode Count10

Maestro

Release Date2012-11-08

Charactersd Kandidaat

Episode Count8

Divorce

Three guys, all in their late 30s and early 40s, are going through a divorce. They decide to live together for a while to get through the tough times. As they go through the ups and downs of their shared experience, they start to become really good friends. The show explores the ups and downs of divorce, showing the intense emotions, heated arguments, the weight of loss, the lingering doubts, the responsibilities of parenthood, the financial implications, and the journey of self-discovery while rebuilding their lives.

Release Date2012-12-16

Charactersd Joris Hulskamp

Episode Count49

Vote Count7

Roosters

Facing a world that has evolved without them, four friends clumsily try to adapt while keeping their relationships and careers intact.

Release Date2025-02-28

Charactersd Ivo

Episode Count6

Vote Count6

Vechtershart

Release Date2015-11-22

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd Nick Roest

Episode Count[ 18 ]

Vote Count3

Het Herriehofje

Release Date2022-04-18

Charactersd Jim

Episode Count10

Meisje van Plezier

Release Date2017-09-10

Charactersd Daan

Episode Count8

Vote Count9

Bennie

Growing up is hard enough. But what is this like growing up with Down syndrome? And what effect does this have on your family? 'Bennie', inspired by the life story of Barry Atsma, is a heart-warming series that tells the honest story of a family life that has to do with Down syndrome.

Release Date2025-03-21

Charactersd Bert

Episode Count8

Vote Count2

Adem in, Adem uit

Release Date2021-09-21

Charactersd Sven

Episode Count10

Five Live

Release Date2022-10-02

Charactersd Roderik van Zuylen

Episode Count8

Vote Count2

Lijn 32

Release Date2012-01-14

Charactersd Hein van Vlijmen

Episode Count8

Vote Count4

Amsterdam Vice

It is the time of major social changes, squatter riots and demonstrations. The idealistic young detective Jurre de Cock is just starting at station Warmoesstraat. His partner, the purebred Amsterdammer Tonnie Montijn, shows him around the city. But then the duo comes across a criminal conspiracy, which appears to be part of a bigger plan. De Cock is also assigned a new partner: Andy Ruiter, transferred from the Bijlmer.

Release Date2019-12-30

Charactersd Jurre de Cock

Episode Count8

Vote Count6

Mixed Up

Mixed up is a drama series about the editorial staff of women's magazine ZIJ, in which the battle between the men and women on the editorial staff can get quite fierce.

Release Date2011-11-14

Charactersd David Vogel

Episode Count9

Suspects

Suspects is about the team Criminal Intelligence of the Amsterdam police. They have to deal with eight modern crime cases that are difficult to solve. The team hooks up in each case in order to complete it successfully.

Release Date2017-03-12

Charactersd Willem Keijzer

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Lieve Lust

Lieve Lust is a relationship comedy. The series revolves around the lives of six people in their thirties in Amsterdam.

Release Date2005-08-16

Charactersd Andy

Episode Count13

Vote Count1

Bride Flight

A romantic drama that charts the lives of three women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war brides.

Release Date2008-10-15

Charactersd Frank

Vote Count38

No Such Thing as Housewives

Two modern women and their free-spirited mother struggle to balance their private, professional and family lives.

Release Date2017-12-21

Charactersd Thijs

Vote Count17

Hein

Release Date2024-11-10

Charactersd Donny de Jonge

Episode Count1

Ron Goossens, Low Budget Stuntman

Alcoholic and low budget stuntman Ron Goossens has to get The Netherlands' most successful actrice between the sheets in order to save his own marriage. Will he succeed? A new outrageous comedy from the writers/directors of New Kids Turbo, New Kids Nitro and Bros Before Hos.

Release Date2017-01-26

Charactersd Waldemar Torenstra

Vote Count54

Amsterdam Vice

A mild-mannered police detective freshly stationed in tumultuous 1980 Amsterdam enters a race against time when he encounters a violent plot against the Dutch royal family.

Release Date2019-04-18

Charactersd Jurre de Cock

Vote Count31

Line of Fire

The story of Dutch commando Marco Kroon, who, after becoming the first recipient of his country's highest military award in over five decades, finds himself in the crosshairs of the law for alleged drugs and weapons violations.

Release Date2023-09-14

Charactersd Marco Kroon

Vote Count10

Yes Nurse! No Nurse!

In the guest-house of sister Klivia, the inhabitants are very cheerful and good-hearted persons whose open communal lifestyle is contrasted with the life of somewhat nasty and complaining neighbour Mr Boordevool. Boordevool has spent ages looking for reasons to shut the guest-house. One day a girl from the guest-house meets a nice young guy Gerrit. Sister Klivia lets Gerrit stay regardless of him being a thief. Will that give a chance to the insinuations of the neighbour?

Release Date2002-09-06

Charactersd Gerrit

Vote Count23

Alles op Tafel

Seven friends meet up for dinner and decide to play a revealing game. During the evening deep personal secrets will surface and threaten their relationships.

Release Date2021-11-04

Charactersd Thomas

Vote Count20

Tiramisu

Bookkeeper Jacob newest client is the talented and flamboyant actress Anne. They first meet each other on her houseboat, the morning after the premiere of Anne's new theatrical play. Anne has made a mess of her personal finances and she has a lot of debt. So much so that she may even have to sell her houseboat. Jacob does what he can to help her.

Release Date2008-03-06

Charactersd Nick

Vote Count4

All You Need Is Love

When popular TV show host Dr. Love goes missing ahead of the annual Christmas special, a zany search for his replacement and holiday romance ensues.

Release Date2018-12-06

Charactersd Gerco

Vote Count13

The Happy Housewife

Lea is an immaculate 30-something wife whose husband’s job in real estate allows her an enviably glossy lifestyle. The word ‘emancipation’ simply isn't in her vocabulary and as long as the money rolls in, all is rosy. So, when Harry Jr. arrives, she is a little traumatized at having to swap canapés for nappies.

Release Date2010-04-15

Charactersd Harry Meijer

Vote Count41

Zwanger & Co

Merel, a single midwife, is done with men, but her biological clock is ticking inexorably. And yes, she gets pregnant. However, the whole family suddenly seems pregnant. Her 60-plus father Piet has just become a father again with his young partner and her 23-year-old niece Eva is also expecting. Annet, Merel's older sister, who suffers from the empty nest syndrome, has a husband Theo who only wants to travel because he thinks is too young to become a grandfather.

Release Date2022-07-07

Charactersd Luuk

Vote Count6

Jesus Is a Palestinian

Natasha goes to Limburg to collect her brother Ramses, who has joined a sect, so he can consent to cutting their father's life support.

Release Date1999-04-17

Charactersd Roy

Vote Count6

Summer Heat

Photographer Bob loses his girlfriend. A year later he meets Kathleen. Is she in love? Or does she use him for her dark dealings with the mafia?

Release Date2008-03-20

Charactersd Bob

Vote Count18

Gek van geluk

Single mum Lena is struggling with her job: she's a writer of love songs, but because of the lack of romance in her life, she's not inspired anymore. Her friend Valerie thinks she has the perfect solution: she hires a jobless actor to seduce Lena.

Release Date2017-12-07

Charactersd Paul

Vote Count11

Diep

A story about the 14 year old Heleen who makes the transition of child to adult with pain and effort in the wild 70s. While her parents going to divorce she is exploring the world of sex, drugs and love on her own.

Release Date2005-11-10

Charactersd Bakker Jan

Vote Count4

Single Street

Cardiac surgeon Monqiue has centered her life around her work. When extraverted gay artist Max moves in next door they develop a friendship which makes her realise there is more to life than work.

Release Date2019-05-09

Charactersd Max

Vote Count46

My Grandpa the Bankrobber

In order to find her father in Surinam Grace is forced to take some desperate measures. Grace is the only black child of an all-white family, desperate to find out everything about her Surinam father. Grandpa can help her, but his memory gets worse every day since the death of his wife. When the family decide to put Grandpa into a retirement home, he and Grace decide to use his savings to travel to Surinam - but the family has blocked access to his bank account. But their dreams can come true if they rob the bank

Release Date2011-02-10

Charactersd Teun

Vote Count5

Allez, Eddy!

When the village’s first supermarket opens its doors in 1975, Freddy’s isolated life is turned upside down. To celebrate its opening, the supermarket organises a bicycle race of which the winner will get to meet Eddy Merckx. Freddy’s father, a fervent opponent of the supermarket, wants nothing to do with the race. Freddy enters secretly.

Release Date2012-03-28

Charactersd Eddy Merckx

Vote Count11

Amsterdam Undercover: Blood Diamonds

Release Date2024-04-25

Charactersd Hermann van Blomen

Broken Red

What happens if you take the law into your own hands, start correcting the legal system on your own initiative? Hans Croiset, André van den Heuvel, Bram van der Vlugt and Kitty Courbois in their roles of aged resistance heroes do not think this is such a bad idea; in fact, it is what they already did during World War II. Back then, they formed a sworn resistance gang. The occasion for their renewed fighting spirit is the brutal robbery and murder of Marjan, one of the members of their former group. Past and present start blending. In a controlled tempo, alert to detail and acting, a story unravels that focuses on Hans Croiset in the role of Simon, a retired teacher of Dutch. He makes contact with the underworld, meeting the Slavic Goran, who starts feeling sympathy for the old man. Eventually, fate lies in Simon's hands.

Release Date2005-03-02

Charactersd Jonge Simon

Johan

Johan Dros is born as eleventh consecutive son of soccer-obsessed pa Rinus, who raises his boys mainly as the small island Texel's team. Johan's rare reprieves from training for a sport he doesn't care for cease when ma dies. After captain brother Johhny sort of steals his local girl-friend Evy, Johan leaves for Amsterdam, where he becomes a hairdresser and would-be singer. Soccer, a vocal TV talent-hunt and Evy will bring them all together again, but also raise unprecedented strife in the Dros family

Release Date2005-10-06

Charactersd Sjaak Dros

Vote Count8

Balance

Friends Henderson and Morris are climbing a mountain, connected by a rope. They take an easy passage, but a loss of oversight leads to Henderson's fall. Morris cannot prevent falling too. Seconds later he finds himself hanging above an abyss, realizing the balance is unstable.

Release Date2012-06-01

Charactersd Morris

Ibbeltje

Ibbeltje is a funny, curious and enterprising girl who is not afraid of anything. She lives with her mother, father and talking cats in a sleepy town. When her mother climbed on a day in fear of a dog in a tree, Ibbeltje discovers that she used to be a cat. She wants to know everything about. Ibbeltje's father works at an umbrella factory and ever had a magical umbrella of a witch. Ibbeltje find the umbrella, but the director of the umbrella factory will have the umbrella for himself to be very important.

Release Date2004-11-01

Charactersd Loodgieter

Vote Count1

Leve Boerenliefde

A farmer lost his wife and is anything but looking for a new romance. But when a popular TV dating show plans to film a new episode on his farm, he is lured into becoming a participant in the show to save his farm.

Release Date2013-05-14

Charactersd Hendrik Helder

Vote Count14

Drop Dead!

What begins as an exciting parachute jumping adventure takes a nightmarish turn, when the instructor shows signs of suicidal behavior.

Release Date2009-09-28

Charactersd Mike

Vote Count2

The Swap

When successful banker Thomas attends his father’s funeral, he meets his left-wing activist brother Arne again after many years. He makes an effort to get close to Arne and invites him to a prestigious conference on sustainable banking, but Arne uses the conference to make a political statement that has fatal consequences. Thomas finds himself fighting for his own career and for Arne’s life, but especially to regain his brother’s respect.

Release Date2017-04-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScenario Writer

Charactersd

Vote Count1

Shaolin Heroes

The new Videoland Original Shaolin Heroes takes adventure reality to a new level. Ten well-known participants will follow the ancient path of the Shaolin Warrior Monks. They travel to Asia where they are taught during a nine-day training by authentic Shaolin masters. An unprecedentedly beautiful world, where original Kung Fu and martial arts assignments are combined with authentic lifestyle and meaning elements from the Shaolin philosophy. Both tough physical assignments and meditation exercises and everything laced with life wisdom and philosophy.

Release Date2025-03-12

Charactersd Self

Episode Count7

Vote Count1

Dit Was Het Nieuws

Dit was het nieuws is a Dutch television program of RTL4, wherein two teams give a satirical account of the previous week's news. The program has the form of a game show in which two teams, each with a team leader and weekly guest, compete against each other. The scoring is not serious; after the first round, for instance, the score is always 4-4.

Release Date1996-05-17

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

Het Perfecte Plaatje

Release Date2016-10-31

Episode Count6

Vote Count3

Ondersteboven van Afrika

Waldemar Torenstra makes a road trip from Cape Town to Cairo in 'Upside Down by Africa'. He rides a motorcycle through Africa in search of stories that have not been told before with historical facts and the current situation.

Release Date2020-10-18

Episode Count8

Luifel & Luifel

Release Date2001-02-19

Episode Count1

Profs

Short film about a soccer player's wife, who begins to feel remorse for the revenge, especially planned by her fellow-footballer's wives, on her adulterous husband. Eventually, she adopts the right, i.e. professional, attitude and saves herself from her distressing situation.

Release Date2004-09-29

Icehorse

Jonny, a deadbeat groomer, follows a young woman through the streets of Amsterdam to find out if she is the girl he accidentally killed in a recurring dream, a hallucination or, worse, a memory.

Release Date2014-06-18

Vote Count2

Mag ik je aanraken?

How do Dutch actors in the post-#MeToo era look back at intimate scenes and what do they think about the arrival of the intimacy coordinator? From her experience as an actress and filmmaker, Tamar van den Dop talks to several past and present icons.

Release Date2023-09-25

Life is Beautiful

Erasmus compiled a few thousand Adagia, each exemplifies the classical truths that are our timeless and everyday wisdom. Life is Beautiful shows us just how wondrous life really is, by reflecting, quietly manipulating and exposing every day moments and scenes in 30 short stories.

Release Date2009-06-01

Vote Count2

Twinkle Twinkle Little Elephant

Ollie lives in a busy city with her parents and half-sister Nim, who has Down’s syndrome. While Ollie loves Nim, it often feels like a responsibility. At their grandmother Antje’s 75th birthday, they plan to perform Nim’s favorite song. When Nim panics about her forgotten elephant headband, she runs into the woods, and Ollie chases her. They get lost but face enchanting challenges together.

Release Date2025-06-25

Vote Count1