---
name: "Erland van Lidth"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/erland-van-lidth"
fi1m_id: "erland-van-lidth"
imdb_id: "nm0887419"
tmdb_id: 3013
wikidata_id: "Q365766"
roles: []
born: "3 June 1953"
died: "23 September 1987"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T16:33:38.408337+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."
---

# Erland van Lidth

## Identity

Erland van Lidth

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/erland-van-lidth
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** erland-van-lidth
- **IMDb ID:** nm0887419
- **TMDB ID:** 3013
- **Wikidata ID:** Q365766
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erland_Van_Lidth_De_Jeude, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q365766, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0887419/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3013

Actor. Born 3 June 1953 in Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. Died 23 September 1987.

## Details

- **Born:** 3 June 1953, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
- **Died:** 23 September 1987
- **Also known as:**  Erland Van Lidth De Jeude 
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erland_Van_Lidth_De_Jeude, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q365766, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0887419/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3013

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Stir Crazy*](https://film.one/film/stir-crazy.md) (60)

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## Biography

Erland van Lidth, also credited as Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, was a Dutch-American actor, opera singer and amateur wrestler. Born in Hilversum, Netherlands, he moved to the United States with his family as a child and grew up in New Jersey, Connecticut and New Hampshire. He studied computer science and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also competed in wrestling and appeared in student theatre productions.

After graduation he worked in information technology in New York while pursuing amateur wrestling, serving as the heavyweight alternate for the United States at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. A casting director discovered him at the New York Athletic Club, leading to his film debut as Terror in *The Wanderers* (1979). He went on to play Grossberger in *Stir Crazy* (1980), Ronald 'Fatty' Elster in *Alone in the Dark* (1982) and Dynamo in *The Running Man* (1987). He also performed regularly with the Amato Opera in New York as a bass-baritone studying the Heldenbaritone repertoire. Van Lidth died of heart failure in Manhattan on 23 September 1987, aged 34.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Stir Crazy* (1980), Fi1m 60, as Grossberger — [page](https://film.one/film/stir-crazy.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *The Running Man* (1987), as Dynamo
- *Alone in the Dark* (1982), as Ronald "Fatty" Elster
- *Stir Crazy* (1980), as Grossberger — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/stir-crazy.md)
- *The Wanderers* (1979), as Terror

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