- Played Saint Nicholas during the arrival in Maarssen.
- Spoor started his career as a cameraman in 1960. In 1962 he was a cameraman for the television broadcast of Queen Wilhelmina's funeral. After reading an advertisement in Elsevier, he requested a job interview with Carel Enkelaar. He then took a directing course for a year.
- He was interested in space travel and rockets; for example, he fired a homemade rocket in Zandvoort.
- Rudolf Spoor was a Dutch television director.
- Spoor spent a year in Woking, England, to improve his writing and speaking skills in the English language.
- Many people responded to his death, including the Dutch King, the Dutch Queen and the Dutch former Queen.
- Spoor worked as a television director for the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) for over forty years and made many TV programs about historical events. The most famous moments were the moon landing of Apollo 11 in 1969 and the 2002 wedding ceremony of Prince Willem-Alexander and Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam including the famous shot of Máxima's 'tear'.
- He was a director at the NOS until 2002 and is also called court director. He officially received this nickname on April 29, 1993, when he was appointed knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
- In 2008, Spoor was closely involved in the local TV registration of the coronation of the King of Bhutan.
- His first major directing job was the television report of the first moon landing.
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