![]() ![]() Filmed entirely in Amsterdam last year, it stars Marc Warren ( Beecham House, Hustle) as Piet Van der Valk. Now the character returns in Van der Valk, a 3 x 90-minute series produced by Company Pictures ( Agatha Raisin) for ITV. Some novels were adapted in the 1990s by BBC Radio 4. Composed by Jack Trombey (2) and played by the Simon Park Orchestra, it became #1 in the UK charts in 1973. Eye Level, its theme music, is remembered too. The best remembered version is the Thames Television series Van der Valk (1972-1973, 1977, 1991-1992), with Barry Foster. Bryan Marshall played the role in Because of the Cats/ Niet voor de poezen, a Dutch-Belgian film released in 1973. Frank Finlay starred in three German/French TV movies between 19 (1). ![]() Called the "Dutch Maigret", Piet Van der Valk was first portrayed on-screen by German actor Wolfgang Kieling in the British film Amsterdam Affair (1968). Freeling, who spent most of his life in continental Europe, was an admirer of Belgian author Georges Simenon. Married to a French woman named Arlette, the Commissaris appeared in 11 books from 1962 to 1989. Created by English novelist Nicolas Freeling (1927-2003), Simon "Piet" Van der Valk is a cynical and intuitive Amsterdam police commissioner. ![]()
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