Place of Birth: Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Arno
Arnold Charles Ernest Hintjens (21 May 1949 – 23 April 2022), better known by his stage name Arno, was a Belgian singer. He was the frontman of TC Matic, one of the best-known Belgian bands of the 1980s. After the band split in 1986 he enjoyed a solo career. Arno sang in a mixture of English, French, Dutch and his native Ostend-Flemish dialect. For TC Matic, a band which achieved moderate artistic success throughout Europe, he wrote or co-wrote all the band's material, much of it together with guitarist and producer Jean-Marie Aerts. After going solo he released more than a dozen albums during a successful career. In 2002 he received the title "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" (Knight in the Arts and Literature) of the French government. A 2004 biography by Gilles Deleux was translated in Dutch as Een lach en een traan ("A Smile and a Tear"). In the Belgian film Camping Cosmos he played the homosexual lifeguard Harry who does not pay attention to Lolo Ferrari who is incarnating a caricature of Pamela Anderson. At the beginning of 2020, Arno postponed his upcoming tour after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Until the end of his life he was performing and recording music. Opex was his last record, recorded while he was very ill. He died from the disease on 23 April 2022, in Brussels, at the age of 72. Source: Article "Arno (singer)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Movie | Cast | Year |
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I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster | Arno | 2008 |
William Cliff, poète | Self | 1997 |
Petites vacances à Knokke-le-Zoute | Maurice | 2009 |
Yuku and the Himalayan Flower | Le Rat (voice) | 2022 |
La Maison de la Radio | Self | 2013 |
Turtle Sitting | André | 1999 |
Alors voilà, | Arno | 1997 |
La vie sexuelle des Belges partie 2 - Camping Cosmos | Arno | 1996 |
Komma | Peter De Wit / Lars Ericsson | 2006 |
The Injection | Balthazar | 2011 |
Arno - Live in Brussels 2005 | Self | 2005 |
Arno: Rock'n'Roll Godverdomme | Himself | 2024 |
A new old story | 2012 | |
The Taste of Blueberries | Eric Dessart | 2014 |
M. Eddy & sa tribu | Self | 2018 | Series | Cast | Year |
Victoires de la musique | Self | 1985 |