- Harry Kümel was born on January 27, 1940 in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. He is a director and writer, known for Malpertuis (1971), Monsieur Hawarden (1968) and Eline Vere (1991).
- 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.
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