Wittop, Freddy
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Wittop, Freddy
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Wittop, Freddy (American costume designer, died 2001)
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Wittop, Freddy (American costume designer, died 2001)
Wittop-Koning, Freddy
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Freddy Wittop
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Fred "Freddy" Wittop Koning (1921- ), dancer under the name Frederico Ray and theatrical costume designer.
d. Feb. 2 in Atlantis, Fla., aged 89.
Costume designer and dancer Freddy Wittop (1911-2001) was born Frederick Wittop Koning in Bussum, the Netherlands.
Under the name Frederico Rey, he danced with such notables as La Argentinita and Jose Greco. He also formed his own dance company in 1951 and toured for seven years. In 1959, Wittop designed costumes for the Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak house and actively worked in New York for the next fourteen years. Wittop died at the JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, Florida, shortly after being chosen as the 2001 recipient of the Theatre Development Fund's Irene Sharaff Award.
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Theater
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France--Paris
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Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
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