---
name: "Erik Plooyer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/erik-plooyer"
fi1m_id: "erik-plooyer"
imdb_id: "nm0687398"
tmdb_id: 126573
wikidata_id: "Q116052096"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 October 1933"
died: "5 January 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:57:18.251880+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Erik Plooyer

## Identity

Erik Plooyer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/erik-plooyer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** erik-plooyer
- **IMDb ID:** nm0687398
- **TMDB ID:** 126573
- **Wikidata ID:** Q116052096
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116052096, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0687398/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/126573

Actor. Born 16 October 1933 in Laren. Died 5 January 1988.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 October 1933, Laren
- **Died:** 5 January 1988
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116052096, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0687398/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/126573

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*A Question of Silence*](https://film.one/film/a-question-of-silence.md) (79)

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## Biography

Erik Plooyer (1933–1988) was a Dutch actor. Born in Laren, Noord-Holland, he attended the toneelschool in Amsterdam, leaving early in 1953 to join Toneelgroep Puck. He later worked with Het Rotterdams Toneel and Toneelgroep Studio, and appeared regularly on Dutch television from the mid-1950s onwards.

Plooyer took on administrative roles in theatre, serving as artistic director of De Nieuwe Komedie / Arena between 1968 and 1973. In 1978 he became director of the youth theatre De Krakeling in Amsterdam, which he had helped found. His screen credits include the role of the prosecutor in *A Question of Silence* (1982). He was the son of singer and vocal coach Marcus Plooyer and was married to actress Dore Smit.

*Sources: imdb.com, theaterencyclopedie.nl.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Question of Silence* (1982), Fi1m 79, as Prosecutor — [page](https://film.one/film/a-question-of-silence.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Dutch Girls* (1985), as Mr. van der Merwe
- *A Question of Silence* (1982), as Prosecutor — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/a-question-of-silence.md)
- *A Flight of Rainbirds* (1981), as Man Martha
- *Heilige Jeanne* (1978), as Blauwbaard
- *Amsterdam Affair* (1968), as Baron
- *Henry IV* (1965), as Ordulf
- *The House* (1961), Actor
- *Cesare* (1958), as Antonio Anestasio

## Gallery

- ![Erik Plooyer](https://film.one/media/person/3923893/gallery-7aeeddc8b02d.jpg) Erik Plooyer — Hofland, L.H., fotograaf; Auteursrechthouder: Het Utrechts Archief, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Portret_van_de_Erik_Plooyer%2C_1967.jpg/1280px-Portret_van_de_Erik_Plooyer%2C_1967.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Collectie / Archief : Fotocollectie Anefo Reportage / Serie : [ onbekend ] Beschrijving : Televisiespel "Martine". Cocky Boonstra, Dore Smit en Erik Plooyer Dat (1962)](https://film.one/media/person/3923893/gallery-6cc2cbd710da.jpg) Collectie / Archief : Fotocollectie Anefo Reportage / Serie : [ onbekend ] Beschrijving : Televisiespel "Martine". Cocky Boonstra, Dore Smit en Erik Plooyer Dat (1962) — Jack de Nijs for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Televisiespel_Martine._Cocky_Boonstra_%2C_Dore_Smit_en_Erik_Plooyer%2C_Bestanddeelnr_913-3878.jpg/1280px-Televisiespel_Martine._Cocky_Boonstra_%2C_Dore_Smit_en_Erik_Plooyer%2C_Bestanddeelnr_913-3878.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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