Gaston Berghmans

Gaston Berghmans remains one of the most searched entertainment personalities associated with Merksem, Belgium and modern film culture.

Gaston Berghmans, quite possibly Belgian's greatest comedian of all time, was born in 1926 in Merksem, a community which is part of the city of Antwerp. He had a very normal and healthy childhood and attended middle school to become a craftsman, just like his father before him.