- His 1971 vampire feature Daughters of Darkness (Les lèvres rouges; Fr, "The Red Lips"), starring Delphine Seyrig became a cult hit in Europe and the United States.
- He directed theatre, television and opera. He started teaching on the Dutch Film and Television Academy (Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie) in the seventies, but retired in 2005.
- Retrospective at the 6th Oldenburg International Film Festival in 1999.
- From 1969 until the present, teacher of cinema at various film institutes, among many: The Dutch Film and Television Academy - Amsterdam (NFTA), Institut des Arts de Diffusion - Brussels (IAD), Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound - Brussels (RITS), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)...
- He made a cameo appearance in several fiction novels, among others: Nicholas Royle's novel Antwerp and Hubert Lampo's magic-realistic novel The Scent of Sandalwood.
- He directed Monsieur Hawarden (1969) about the cross-dressing Meriora Gillibrand whose two male lovers fought a duel in Vienna. She then killed the survivor and fled to Belgium dressed as a man. She took the name Hawarden from a family related to hers in Lancashire. The film is a fictionalised account; her grave can still be seen near Malmedy in the German-speaking part of Belgium.
- He directed the film version of Malpertuis (1971), featuring Orson Welles and adapted from the 1943 novel by Jean Ray.
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