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A Tender Brute with an impressive career

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.

A Seducer on Stage

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 The Elephant Man (Pommerance), Boris in Children of the Sun (Gorki), Nico in Norman, is that you? (Clark), Henry VIII in Thomas More (Bolt), Ripafratta in Mirandolina (Goldoni), James Carmichael in Romantic Comedy (Slade), Kittel in Ghetto (Sobol), Bob in Glenngary Glenn Ross (Mamet), Gennadi in The Forest (Ostrovski), Versjinin in Three Sisters (Tsjechov), and Sultan Saladin in Nathan the Wise (Lessing). Often he had the pleasure to be granted the role of the irresistible seducer, from Don Juan to Don Quixote.
He was Leonardo the lover in Blood Wedding (Lorca), and he tamed shrews in the role of Petrucchio (Shakespeare). As a juvenile lead he took in girls from most honourable families, such as Fientje Beulemans. In Woyzeck (Büchner) he was Drum Major, and in Educated Women (Molière) he was Trissotin. As Dracula (Tiller) he sucked and licked blood.

Starring on the Silver Screen

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 Vrijdag (Friday) (Hugo Claus), was a policeman in Zaman (Lebon), made an Odyssee d'Amour with Pim de la Parra in the Dutch Antilles, and was cast as a playboy in Springen (Jumping) (De Decker). On a more humouristic note he was the rival of the famous Flemish comic Urbanus in Hector and Koko Flanel (Stijn Coninx), and the deceived husband in the Dutch blockbuster De Familie Flodder (The Flodder Family) (Dick Maas). His most recent appearance on screen was in Film 1 (Piranha Blues), the excellent and provoking debut of Willem Wallyn.

On your couch

Herbert Flack has appeared in Flemish, French as well as Dutch prime time TV serials such as Medisch Centrum West, Wittekerke, Plantage Allee and Les Steenforts. In 1998 he was the lapsed hero of the famous serial Diamant (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 Thuis, a soapseries on national television TV1.

And more …

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.
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?