Dutch film director (born 1938)
Photo: Maximilian Bühn, CC-BY-SA 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons, cropped)
Spanjer died in a hospice in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel in the night from Friday 16 to Saturday 17 October 2026, his partner Monique Waterham told ANP. He had been treated for bladder and prostate cancer since it was diagnosed in 2025.
