- Is currently retiring in Australia. (October 2006)
- Grandfather of Dagmar Brusse and Lara Brusse.
- Kees Brusse was a self-taught actor, and he was remarkable for his natural acting style at a time when more theatrical performances were the norm in The Netherlands.
- From 1952 to 1954 he was artistic leader of the Rotterdamse Comedie, where he worked with his later wife Mieke Verstraete.
- He was involved with several theater companies, including Toneelgroep Theater, De Haagse Comedie, Het Amsterdams Toneel and the Nederlandse Comedie.
- Kees Brusse was married five times and had two children. From 1948 to 1953, he was married to Wim Kan's assistant Pam Henning. In 1954, he married actress Mieke Verstraete, with whom he had a daughter. In 1975, he married Marlou Peters. They got a daughter as well. In 1986, he married Sonja Boerrigter. With her Brusse left The Netherlands in 1988. They went to live in Bonaire, France and Australia. Boerrigter died in 2000. He spent his final years in Perth with his fifth wife, Joan St. Clair.
- He made his stage debut in 1941 as Pietje Puck in Boefje, a play written by his father.
- In 1962 he directed his first film, Kermis in de regen. The same year, he directed the actors in Paul Rotha's film The Silent Raid.
- He also was a regular panel member in the game show Wie van de drie, the Dutch version of To Tell the Truth. Furthermore, he performed in commercials for Shell and Zwitserleven, the Dutch branch of insurance company Swiss Life.
- In 2002, he released under his own management Vader is zo stil de laatste tijd, a personal documentary about aging.
- Kees Brusse was born in Rotterdam, the son of author and journalist M.J. Brusse and opera singer Antje Ebes. His parents divorced when he was young.
- In 1964 and 1965 he played the title character in the Dutch TV version of Maigret.
- His documentary Mensen van morgen (1964) sketches a portrait of young people in the early sixties and is praised for his candor. Two years later, he also made a German version, Menschen von Morgen.
- At the age of 15 he ran away from home to pursue an acting career.
- He had leading roles in four of the only eleven Dutch feature films released in the 1950s, including Ciske de Rat (1955), still considered one of the best visited films of The Netherlands.
- After the end of World War II Brusse performed at the cabaret of Wim Sonneveld, toured Switzerland, and in 1948, visited Indonesia with his theater group Toneelgroep C 6.
- He became wellknown to the Dutch public with the radio play De familie Doorsnee (1952-1958) and Pension Hommeles (1957-1959), the first true Dutch TV series, both written by Annie M.G. Schmidt.
- In both' Pension Hommeles' as 'Maigret', the role of his wife was played by Brusse's then wife Mieke Verstraete.
- One of the first Dutch actors who managed to combine a stage and film career with a career on TV, radio and in commercials.
- Rejected from drama school he became volunteer at the theater company of Cor van der Lugt Melsert at the Stadsschouwburg.
- In the 1970s he has the leading parts in several films by Wim Verstappen and Pim de la Parra: Blue Movie (1971), VD (1972) and Dakota (1974). He also starred in Bert Haanstra's 1975 film Dokter Pulder zaait papavers, which was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival.
- As a self-taught actor his acting style was different from his contemporaries: more natural and dosed in a time when Dutch acting was characterized by large gestures and theatrical delivery.
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