Ronald Eveleens

Ronald Willem Aldert Eveleens was born in the Netherlands in 1958 and in his school period he was acting occasionally and frequently asked for school plays and amateur theater. After a turbulent school period moved to Denver Colorado in 1977 to work at several jobs and at one time working 3 jobs for the period of 1 year to pursue is career. First TV 'appearance' was when he volunteered for a muscular dystrophy telethon to sit in on telephone panel to receive and encourage donations in Denver in 1977. He traveled to Burbank and Malibu California in the summer of 1978 to see if there was a future in acting. Slept in the garden of Lucile Ball, talked his way in the crew and actors restaurant in universal city studios and was invited by Tom Selleck, to celebrate Tom's mothers birthday and the fact that he was also celebrating the signing of his contract to play Magnum PI and was going to move to Hawaii for that. Ron was also invited to be in audience of the 'Tonight show with Johnny Carson' guest hosted by Don Rickles and was asked to wear his Dutch wooden shoes (clogs) to be 'noticed' and questioned by Don. In the same studio in the evening time dropped in where the taping of the 'Wolfman Jack show' was going on and was asked some questions in a very short interview on TV by 'the Wolfman'. Other luck meetings those days were with David Hasselhoff and traveling the tourist sightseeing train with Joanne Woodward and her cousins. In 1986 Ronald moved from the US to Japan working for the EU, promoting and introducing European business to the Japanese market. Also appearing occasionally on TV in interviews, sometimes newspapers with interviews and once in Hokkaido being the main attraction in a Matsuri (kind of carnival parade. In 1997 Ron moved to Finland to purchase a hotel and pursue a career in the accommodation and restaurant business. No other film or theater career got of the ground except a few appearances later in Dutch TV shows as himself.