Trivia

Hugas, with his remarkable voice, could also be heard as a radio actor.

After high school (1949-1956) and two years of law school, Hugas traveled through Europe and was, among other things, a stage manager of an Irish theater and a tour guide. Back in the Netherlands he started his professional career as an actor.

In 1964, Hugas founded Cabaret PePijn together with Paul van Vliet, Liselore Gerritsen and Rob van Kreeveld, for which he also wrote lyrics.

Ferd Hugas was a Dutch actor, radio play actor and screenwriter.

During the second half of the 1990s, Hugas was a co-writer in one of the two writing teams of the German hospital series Stadtklinik, in collaboration with Hans Galesloot, among others.

In the early eighties, Hugas also played in a song program by Annie M.G. Schmidt:and in two of her musicals.

In recent years Hugas has been active in museums; For example, he contributed to a number of radio plays for the Dutch Funeral Museum Tot Zover, he was involved in the adaptation of a film about explorer Ernest Shackleton for Omniversum and he wrote the texts for a short film about Vincent van Gogh for the Van Gogh House in New Amsterdam (Drenthe).

Hugas stated in a broadcast that his first name 'Ferd' is often mistakenly confused with 'Fred'. During Hugas's PePijn cabaret years; this meant that the cover of an LP had to be reprinted. 'Ferd' is an abbreviation of 'Ferdinand'.

In addition to television series, he also appeared in several films, commercials and also in German and Italian productions.

Hugas first gained fame with his role as Axel Zaneck in the popular first series of Q and Q and subsequently performed (guest) roles in a large number of television series,.