Maarten Spanjer married partner five days before his death

Actor Maarten Spanjer married his partner, Monique Waterham, five days before his death, she told De Telegraaf. Spanjer died aged 73 in the early hours of Saturday, Nieuws.nl reported. [1]

Waterham said the couple married in hospital in a small ceremony arranged as an emergency wedding. Spanjer had told her: “I want to go into the coffin as a married man,” according to the newspaper.

She said his condition deteriorated sharply two days later and he was moved to a hospice, where he died.

Spanjer was known for his role in Paul Verhoeven’s 1980 film *Spetters* and for the television programme *Taxi*, in which he spoke with passengers while working as a taxi driver.