Wissenswertes

Brother of Luc Lutz and Pieter Lutz.

Has won a 'Louis D'Or', the highest acting award for on-stage performances in The Netherlands, comparable to the 'Tony-award' in the United States.

Won the Louis d'Or (the Dutch equivalent for the Tony Award for best actor) in 1968 and 1983.

Three daughters with ex-wife Ina Kranenborg: Anca Lutz (born 1947), Stans Lutz and Celia Lutz.

After finishing high school, Lutz worked as a reporter for the Nieuwe Delftse Courant newspaper in Delft, where eventually he found himself assigned to write the theater reviews.

After liberation Lutz went to work as a radio announcer in Groningen.

He worked as an actor for various theatre companies, including the Nederlands Volkstoneel (Dutch People's Theatre), Toneelgroep Comedia (Theatre Comedia), De Nederlandse Comedie (The Dutch Comédie), the Rotterdam Theatre, Zuidelijk Toneel Globe (Southern Globe Theatre) and the Publiekstheater (Public's Theatre).

During World War II he tried join the repertoire group at the Royal Theatre in The Hague, known as the Residentie Tooneel, but was rejected. Instead, he was accepted for training at the Amsterdam Theatre School in 1944, but the program was shut down by the war.

In 1984 Lutz was knighted by the Dutch crown into the Order of Orange-Nassau.

In later years, 1993-2002, he appeared mostly in television productions.