Burny Bos

Burny Bos
Bos in 1991
Born	Bernard Gerrit Bos (1944-04-08)8 April 1944 Haarlem, German-occupied Netherlands
Died	1 December 2023(2023-12-01) (aged 79) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Occupation(s)	Actor, film producer, screenwriter and author
Children	1
Website	http://www.bosbros.com/

Bernard Gerrit "Burny" Bos (8 April 1944 – 1 December 2023) was a Dutch film producer, screenwriter and children's book writer. He also worked as an actor in children's programs on radio and television.

Bos started working with the AVRO-radio. In 1975 he received an honorable mention from the "Zilveren Reissmicrofoon" jury for the Ko de boswachtershow (radio) and in 1977 for Radio Lawaaipapegaai. In 1981 the Zilveren Nipkowschijf jury gave him another honorable mention for the TV series Lawaaipapegaai. In 1983 he received the Zilveren Reissmicrofoon for his entire radio oeuvre.

From 1984 to 1989, Bos was the head of the youth department in the VPRO. Under his supervision programs like Theo en Thea, Mevrouw Ten Kate, Max Laadvermogen, Rembo en Rembo, Achterwerk in de kast and Buurman Bolle developed. In 1989 he began his own production company Bos Bros. and he signed another year contract with the AVRO.

For the AVRO he produced programs and films like The Pocket-knife, Kinderen van waterland, Dag Juf, tot morgen, de Ko de boswachtershow, Hoe laat begint het schilderij, Mijn Franse tante Gazeuse and Otje. He was proclaimed as the "broadcaster of the year" in 1998.^[1]

In recent years, he was focused on producing films. Working with his production company in partnership with Warner Bros. Entertainment, he produced several film adaptations of books written by Annie M.G. Schmidt. He received the Gouden Kalf film prize for the best feature film in 1999 with The Flying Liftboy (Abeltje) and in 2002 with Miss Minoes (Minoes). Schmidt's books Otje and Ibbeltje were adapted into a television series.

Burny Bos was the guest of honor at the Dutch Film Festival in late September 2007. For that occasion, he asked director Diederik van Rooijen to direct the short film Een trui voor kip Saar .

Bos also showed that he was worried about the future of the youth film in the Netherlands. Quality films are becoming increasingly difficult to make. According to him, the children's genre on television and in the cinema suffers from "ploppification".

Bos died of mesothelioma on 1 December 2023, at the age of 79.^[2]

• Ko de Boswachtershow (1974-1984)
• Radio Lawaaipapegaai (1976-1978)

• "De Lawaaipapegaai presenteert: "Papelagaaiwaai" (1978-1982)
• Villa Achterwerk - Central presentation as Lange Jaap (1984/1985)
• Opzoek naar Yolanda - Lange Jaap (1984)
• Buurman Bolle - Verteller (1989)
• Ko de Boswachtershow - Ko de Boswachter (television series) (1990)
• Studio Trappelzak
• Hoe laat begint het schilderij
• Dag huis, dag tuin, dag opbergschuur
• Lawaai Papegaai (television version of this radio programme) (also with Wieteke van Dort)

• Knofje, waar zit je? (1980)
• Oma Fladder (1981)
• Klim maar op mijn rug zei de krokodil (1982)
• Circus Grote Meneer (1985)
• Professor Koosje (1986)
• Bonkie en Uk (1987)
• Kikker in je bil die er nooit meer uit wil (1987)
• Professor Koosje bolleboosje (1987)
• De groeten van Knofje (1988)
• Dubbeldik zand op je boterham (1990)
• Mijn vader woont in Rio (1990)
• Valentino de kikker (1990)
• Familie Mol-de-Mol staat er goed op (1994)
• Bij de familie Mol-de-Mol is alles oké (1995)
• Familie Mol-de-Mol zit hoog en droog (1995)
• Ot Jan Dikkie! (1997)
• Alexander de Grote, Pluim van de maand (January 2001)

• Kinderen van Waterland (1990)
• The Pocket-knife (Het Zakmes, 1992)
• Vinaya (1992)
• Captain Cockpit [nl]' (1994)
• Dag juf, tot morgen [nl] (1995)
• Always yours, for never (1996)
• Mijn Franse tante Gazeuse (1996)
• Otje [nl] (1998)
• The Boy Who Stopped Talking (De Jongen Die niet meer Praatte, 1996)
• The Flying Liftboy (Abeltje, 1998)
• Cowboy from Iran (Cowboy uit Iran, 1999)
• Knofje [nl] (2001)
• Miss Minoes (Minoes, 2001)
• Yes Nurse! No Nurse! (Ja zuster, nee zuster, 2002)
• Ibbeltje (2004)
• Tow Truck Pluck (Pluk van de Petteflet, 2004)
• My Brother Is a Dog (Mijn Broer Is Een Hondje, 2004)
• Winky's Horse (Het Paard van Sinterklaas, 2005)
• Gruesome School Trip (De Griezelbus, 2005)
• Circus Waltz [nl] (2006)
• Een trui voor kip Saar (2007)
• Ben X (2007)
• Where Is Winky's Horse? (Waar is het Paard van Sinterklaas?, 2007)
• Morrison krijgt een zusje (2008)
• Hoe overleef ik mezelf? (2008)
• De Indiaan (2009)
• Dolfje Weerwolfje (2011)
• The Zigzag Kid (Nono, Het Zigzag Kind, 2012)
• Wiplala [nl] (2014)
• Meester Kikker (2016)
• Adios Amigos (2016)
• Romy's Salon (Kapsalon Romy, 2019)
• Dikkie Dik en de verdwenen knuffel (2024) (narrator) (posthumous)
• Een nieuwe vriend voor Dikkie Dik (2024) (narrator) (posthumous)

• Interview
• Burny Bos at IMDb
• films and television series
• Burny Bos discography at Discogs