What is Harrie Geelen?
{{Infobox person | name = Harrie Geelen | image = Harrie Geelen.jpg | alt = Harrie Geelen | caption = Harrie Geelen | other_names = | occupation = Writer (for children and for adults), animator, illustrator, scriptwriter for film and television, composer, director, Also: creative director, animator and scriptwriter for 34 years at Toonder Studio's. | death_place = | birth_date = {{birth-date and age|10 January 1939}} }} '''Harrie Geelen''' (born 10 January 1939) is a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[illustrator]], movie director, [[animator]], [[translator]], [[writer]] and [[poet]]. In 2014, he was made a knight of the [[Order of the Dutch Lion]]. Geelen was born in [[Heerlen]], Netherlands. His best known novel series ''[[Kunt u mij de weg naar Hamelen vertellen, mijnheer?]]'', were published in the 1970s. He studied in [[Amsterdam]], which is where he met his wife [[Imme Dros]]. Geelen wrote several well known television children's programs and translated [[Disney]] movies into Dutch.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/geelen_harrie.htm|title=Harrie Geelen|website=lambiek.net|language=en|access-date=2017-09-28}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Geelen, Harrie}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Animators]] [[Category:Dutch artists]] [[Category:Dutch movie directors]] [[Category:Dutch poets]] [[Category:Illustrators]] [[Category:People from Heerlen]] [[Category:Dutch translators]] [[Category:Writers from Limburg (Netherlands)]] {{bio-stub}}