Rempo Urip

Rempo Urip
Rempo Urip, c. 1954
Born	(1914-07-10) July 10, 1914 (age 102) Purworejo, Dutch East Indies
Nationality	Indonesian
Occupation	Director
Years active	1940–1977

Rempo Urip (born 10 July 1914) is an Indonesian film director. He began his career in the theatre, serving as an extra and footballer for the Dardanella theatre company beginning in 1934. After six years and three troupes, Urip entered the film industry, working as a distributor for Oriental Film and assistant director for Java Industrial Film. He returned to the theatre during the Japanese occupation (1942–45) and national revolution (1945–49). In 1951 he joined Djamaluddin Malik's Persari as a director, completing thirteen films for the company before it closed in 1958. He continued as a freelance director until 1977.

Urip was born in Purworejo, Central Java, Dutch East Indies, on 10 July 1914. His father was a soldier of common birth. He moved to Palembang in southern Sumatra with his family as a child and attended an English Methodist school. He also took courses in Dutch.

As he was a talented football player, in 1934 he was asked to join the Dardanella theatre company as a footballer during their tour of southeast and south Asia. Every time the troupe arrived in a new city, he and the Dardanella side would play an exhibition game to draw potential audiences. When not playing football, Urip would help with poster design, or take on roles as an extra. In 1936, while producing a film adaptation of Andjar Asmara's play Dr Samsi in India, the company dissolved. After Dardanella's dissolution, Urip made his way back to the Indies and joined Asmara's new troupe Bolero, with whom he stayed until 1937, when he migrated to Fifi Young's Pagoda, under Njoo Cheong Seng. He stayed with this latter company until 1939.