Burny Bos


Bernard Gerrit Bos is a Dutch producer, scenarist and children's book writer. He also works as an actor in children's programmes on radio and T.V.

Career

Bos started working with the AVRO-radio. In 1975 he received an honorable mention from the "Zilveren Reissmicrofoon" jury for the Ko de boswachtershow 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 till 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 company BosBros and he signed another year contract with the AVRO.
For the AVRO he produced programmes like Het Zakmes, 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.
In the recent years, he is focused on producing films. Working with his society Bos Bros, he produced a number of books by Annie M.G. Schmidt to family films. He received the Gouden Kalf film prize for the best feature film in 1999 with The Flying Liftboy and in 2002 with Undercover Kitty. 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 .
He also showed that he was worried about the future of the youth film in 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".

Radio programmes