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<p class="body10"><span class="body10groen">A Tender Brute with an impressive
career</span></p>
<p class="body10"><span class="body10groen">Herbert Flack was born of a British
father and a Flemish mother in June 1949 near Antwerp, four years after the
liberation of Belgium. He studied at the theatre faculty of the Koninklijk Vlaams
Muziekconservatorium (Royal Flemish Conservatory — Drama Department) of
Antwerp, graduating in 1971 with distinction. In 1987 he participated in a workshop
of Delia Salvi (Actors Studio L.A.) in Amsterdam. Never loosing his natural
born grace, he evolved throughout his career from a juvenile lead into an artistically
matured handsome man. Fascinated by language, he has long proved to be an expert
in the dance of words and rhythms that can mirror reality, bring it to life,
or defy it. This art had him waltz with verve from the stage to film sets and
back.</span></p>
<p class="body10"><span class="body10groen">A Seducer on Stage</span></p>
<p class="body10"><span class="body10groen">For twenty-five years, Flack was a
member of the company of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Schouwburg (Royal Dutch
Theatre) in Antwerp, where he featured as a star in many classic and contemporary
productions. He was Treves in <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/070HFdeolifant.htm" target="_blank">The
Elephant Man</a> (Pommerance), Boris in <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/068HFkindvdzon.htm" target="_blank">Children
of the Sun</a> (Gorki), Nico in Norman, is that you? (Clark), Henry VIII in
<a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/074HFhendrik.htm" target="_blank">Thomas
More</a> (Bolt), Ripafratta in Mirandolina (Goldoni), James Carmichael in <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/072HFromantkomedie.htm" target="_blank">
Romantic Comedy</a> (Slade), Kittel in <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/078HFghetto.htm" target="_blank">Ghetto</a>
(Sobol), Bob in <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/112HFlanzarote.htm" target="_blank">Glenngary
Glenn Ross</a> (Mamet), Gennadi in <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/089HFhetwoud.htm" target="_blank">
The Forest</a> (Ostrovski), Versjinin in <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/099HFdedriezus.htm" target="_blank">
Three Sisters</a> (Tsjechov), and Sultan Saladin in <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/109HFnathan.htm" target="_blank">Nathan
the Wise</a> (Lessing). Often he had the pleasure to be granted the role of
the irresistible seducer, from <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/116HFdonjuan.htm" target="_blank">Don
Juan</a> to <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/087HFdonquichot.htm" target="_blank">Don
Quixote</a>.<br>
He was Leonardo the lover in <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/066HFbloedbruiloft.htm" target="_blank">
Blood Wedding</a> (Lorca), and he tamed shrews in the role of <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/076HFfeeks.htm" target="_blank">Petrucchio</a>
(Shakespeare). As a juvenile lead he took in girls from most honourable families,
such as <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/064HFfientje.htm" target="_blank">Fientje
Beulemans</a>. In Woyzeck (Büchner) he was Drum Major, and in <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/105HFgeleerdevrouw.htm" target="_blank">
Educated Women</a> (Molière) he was Trissotin. As <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/067HFdracula.htm" target="_blank">Dracula</a>
(Tiller) he sucked and licked blood.</span></p>
<p class="body10"><span class="body10groen">Starring on the Silver Screen</span></p>
<p class="body10"><span class="body10groen">But theatre is not Flack’s only
passion, as shown by his appearance in over thirty films. He made his entry
as the young lover Eric in <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/024HFvrijdag.htm" target="_blank">Vrijdag</a>
(Friday) (Hugo Claus), was a policeman in <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/027HFzaman.htm" target="_blank">Zaman</a>
(Lebon), made an <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/044BHFodyssee.htm" target="_blank">Odyssee
d'Amour</a> with Pim de la Parra in the Dutch Antilles, and was cast as a playboy
in <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/033HFspringen.htm" target="_blank">Springen</a>
(Jumping) (De Decker). On a more humouristic note he was the rival of the famous
Flemish comic Urbanus in <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/046HFhector.htm" target="_blank">Hector</a>
and <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/050HFcocoflanel.htm" target="_blank">Koko
Flanel</a> (Stijn Coninx), and the deceived husband in the Dutch blockbuster
<a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/038HFflodder.htm" target="_blank">De Familie
Flodder</a> (The Flodder Family) (Dick Maas). His most recent appearance on
screen was in <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/056HFfilm1.htm" target="_blank">Film
1</a> (Piranha Blues), the excellent and provoking debut of Willem Wallyn.</span></p>
<p class="body10"><span class="body10groen">On your couch</span></p>
<p class="body10"><span class="body10groen">Herbert Flack has appeared in Flemish,
French as well as Dutch prime time TV serials such as Medisch Centrum West,
Wittekerke, <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/010HFtvplantage.htm" target="_blank">Plantage
Allee</a> and <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/014HFsteenforts.htm" target="_blank">Les
Steenforts</a>. In 1998 he was the lapsed hero of the famous serial <a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/019HFdiamant.htm" target="_blank">Diamant</a>
(after Jef Geeraerts). With his graying whiskers being just another attribute
of a never failing charmer he now has admirers in almost every household watching
<a href="/beeldmat/jpgsdefklein/012HFthuis5109jpmar.htm" target="_blank">Thuis</a>,
a soapseries on national television TV1.</span></p>
<p class="body10"><span class="body10groen">And more …</span></p>
<p class="body10"><span class="body10groen">What many people don’t realise
is that Flack’s alluring voice is the very voice which can be heard in
many commercials on radio and television. He is not completely void of business
instinct.<br>
Combining a cool head with a warm heart Herbert Flack is a rather exceptional
personality in the world of actors. His is a nonchalant chic, a daring blend
of good looks and provocation — something that might very well be due to
his English roots. He is a man of the world, who catches the appreciative eyes
of women. But above all he is an actor who loves acting, equally at home in
the classic world of repertory theatre and the world of film and television,
dominated by concerns of high ratings. He knows the art of self-expression in
its many forms, and takes it even further, turning it into the art of seduction.
After all, what is acting if not seducing? </span></p>
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