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| Bruderman is apparently the gentlemen on the far left. |
1851-1920
Dutch actor of the stage and silent screen Jan Buderman was born on the is day in Amsterdam in 1851. He is mostly an unknown to us today; and I can find little evidence that any his 8 known film appearances have survived into modernity. The vast majority of Buderman's career was spent on the Dutch stage, and it appears that he didn't travel much, even for work, outside of The Netherlands. He was 58 years old when he made his film debut in 1909; this came in the Louis Chrispijn Jr. short 999 + 1 (ultimately, his film career lasted just a shade under ten years). He made his feature film debut in 1911 in De bannelingen, a drama based on a play that Buderman may well have appeared live in on stage; the film is remarkable for it's time in that it was co-directed by a woman: Caroline van Dommelen, who was much more well known as an actress (and she is the star of this film as well). He would not appear again in a feature length film until 1918, when he was cast in a war trilogy based on the very recent events from World War One in a film series titled War And Peace (the series is not a Tolstoy adaptation however). The first film was Oorlog en vrede-1914 and ended with Oorlog en vrede-1918 (the second film in the series was Oorlog en vrede-1916)--the entire series was directed by Maurits Binger. The last of these three films was also Buderman's swan song. He died just two years later in 1920 on the 24th of March at the age of 69 where he was born. He buried at New Eastern Cemetery (Nieuwe Oosterbegraafplaats).
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