Charles Vanel
Charles-Marie Vanel (21 August 1892 – 15 April 1989) was a French actor and director. During his 76-year film career, which began in 1912, he appeared in more than 200 films[1] and worked with many prominent directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Jacques Feyder and Henri-Georges Clouzot. He is perhaps best remembered for his role as a desperate truck driver in Clouzot's The Wages of Fear for which he received a Special Mention at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953.[2]
Charles Vanel | |
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Charles Vanel in 1934 | |
| Born | Charles-Marie Vanel 21 August 1892 |
| Died | 15 April 1989 (aged 96) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Actor Film director |
| Years active | 1910-1988 |
In Hitchcock's 1955 film, To Catch a Thief, he played a restaurateur who had served in the French Resistance with Cary Grant.
Selected filmography
- Jim Crow (1912)
- La p'tite du sixième (1917)
- Miarka (1920) as Mario, le garde-chasse
- Crépuscule d'épouvante (1921) as Guillaume Brohan
- La fille de Camargue (1921)
- Possession (1922) as Dimitri
- Tempêtes (1922) as Raoul Mauduit
- Tillers of the Soil (1923) as Bernard Larade
- The House of Mystery (1923) as Henri Corradin
- Calvaire d'amour (1923) as Georges Brémond
- L'autre aile (1923) as Gaston Lager
- Du crépuscule à l'aube (1923)
- In the Spider's Web (1924) as Stephen Powers
- La mendiante de Saint-Sulpice (1924) as Gilbert Rollin
- La Flambée des rêves (1924) as Lucien Réneval
- Le vol (1924) as Favier
- Heart of an Actress (1924)
- Pêcheur d'Islande (1924) as Jan
- Le réveil (1925) as Le Prince Jean
- Barocco (1925) as Barocco
- L'Orphelin du Cirque (1926) as Garment, le traitre / Legru
- The Flame (1926) as Boussat
- 600,000 Francs a Month (1926) as John Durand
- La Nuit de la revanche (1926)
- Nitchevo (1926) as Captain Cartier
- Charité (1927)
- The Prey of the Wind (1927) as Pierre Vignal
- Feu! (1927) as Le lieutenant Frémiet
- Queen Louise (1927-1928) as Napoleon
- The White Slave (1927) as Dr. Warner
- Martyr (1927)
- Die Apachen von Paris (1927) as Bécot
- Da hält die Welt den Atem an (1928)
- The Crew (1928)
- Da hält die Welt den Atem an (1928)
- The Passenger (1928)
- Waterloo (1929) as Napoleon
- Drei Tage auf Leben und Tod - aus dem Logbuch der U.C.1 (1929) as Der Steuermann
- The Love of the Brothers Rott (1929)
- An Ideal Woman (1929)
- Les Fourchambault (1929)
- Chiqué (1930) as Francois
- Dans la nuit (1930) as L'ouvrier carrier
- Accused, Stand Up! (1930) as Henri Lapalle
- L'Arlésienne (1930) as Mitifio, un gardian
- Le capitaine jaune (1930) as Le capitaine
- Dance Hall (1931) as Ramon
- La maison jaune de Rio (1931) as King-Fu / Scalpa
- Montmartre (1931) as André Marco, dit Dédé
- Wooden Crosses (1932) as Caporal Breval
- In the Name of the Law (1932) as Lancelot
- Daïnah la métisse (1932) as Le mécanicien Michaux
- Gitanes (1932) as Léon
- Les Misérables (1934) as Inspecteur Javert
- Au bout du monde (1934) as Georges Laudy
- Le Grand Jeu (1934) as Clément
- Roi de Camargue (1935) as Rampal
- L'Équipage (1935) as Le lieutenant Maury
- The Green Domino (1935) as Nebel - un sculpteur
- L'impossible aveu (1935) as Fred
- The Volga Boatman (1936) as Le colonel Goreff
- Michel Strogoff (1936) as Ivan Ogareff
- La Peur (1936) as Robert Sylvain
- The Flame (1936) as Victor Boussat
- They Were Five (1936) as Charles Billot aka Charlot
- Jenny (1936) as Benoit
- Les Grands (1936) as Henri Lormier
- Port Arthur (1936) as Commander Vassidloff
- L'Assaut (1936) as Alexandre Mérital
- Southern Mail (1937) as L'ambassadeur Herlin
- Police mondaine (1937) as Salviati
- Troïka sur la piste blanche (1937) as Michel Steinberg
- Abused Confidence (1937) as Jacques Ferney
- Les Pirates du rail (1938) as Henri Pierson
- La Femme du bout du monde (1938) as Durc, l'officier mécanicien
- The West (1938) as Jean Cadière
- Légions d'honneur (1938) as Captaine Dabrau
- Bar du sud (1938) as Le capitaine Olivier
- S.O.S. Sahara (1938) as Loup
- Crossroads (1938) as Roger de Vétheuil
- Savage Brigade (1939)as Général Kalitjeff
- Yamilé sous les cèdres (1939) as le chef maronite Rachid el Hamé
- La Loi du Nord (1939) as Le caporal Dalrymple
- Cristobal's Gold (1940) as Le Coronel - le chef de la police
- The Marvelous Night (1940) as Le fermier
- The Black Diamond (1941) as François Mitry
- Les affaires sont les affaires (1942) as Isidore Lechat
- Promesse à l'inconnue (1942) as Bernard Parker
- Haut-le-Vent (1942) as François Ascarra
- Le soleil a toujours raison (1943) as L'homme du mas
- Les Roquevillard (1943) as Maître François Roquevillard
- The Woman Who Dared (1944) as Pierre Gauthier
- Hanged Man's Farm (1945) as François
- Gringalet (1946) as Ravaut
- Le Bateau à soupe (1946) as Le capitaine Hervé
- La Cabane aux souvenirs (1947) as Lauragais
- Le diable souffle (1947) as Laurent
- La Femme que j'ai assassinée (1948) as François Bachelin
- In the Name of the Law (1949) as Massaro Turi Passalacqua
- Vertigine d'amore (1949) as Mugnaio Resplanton / France: Emile Resplandin
- The Fighting Men (1950) as Don Salvatore Sparaino
- Hearts at Sea (1950) as Nostromo Norus
- The Crossroads (1951) as Lubiani
- Tragic Spell (1951) as Bastiano
- The Last Sentence (1951) as Giudice Marco Valsetti
- Malaire (1952) as Noguère aîné
- The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953) as M. Jo
- Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954) as Monsieur de Vergennes
- Maddalena (1954) as Giovanni Lamberti
- L'affaire Maurizius (1954) as Wolf Andergast
- The Cheerful Squadron (1954) as Il capitano Hurluret
- Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955) as Alfred Fichet, le commissaire
- To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955) as Bertani
- Tom Toms of Mayumba (1955) as Carlo Leonardi
- A Missionary (1955) as Père Gauthier
- Sunset in Naples (1955)
- Difendo il mio amore (1956) as Verdisio
- Death in the Garden (1956) as Castin
- Burning Fuse (1957) as Albatrasse
- Les Suspects (1957) as Commissaire Perrache
- Rafles sur la ville (1958) as Léonce Pozzi, dit "Le Fondu"
- Le Piège (1958) as Caillé
- The Mask of the Gorilla (1958) as Colonel Berthomieu
- Les Naufrageurs (1959) as Marnez
- Prisoner of the Volga (1959) as Ossip Semjonowitsch
- La Valse du Gorille (1959) as Berthomieu dit 'Le Vieux'
- Pêcheur d'Islande (1959) as L'armateur Mével
- The Truth (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960) as Maître Guérin
- Maria, Registered in Bilbao (1960) as El viejo
- Tintin and the Golden Fleece (Tintin et le mystère de la Toison d'or, Jean-Jacques Vierne, 1961) as Père Alexandre
- La steppa (1962) as Pére Christophore
- Lo sgarro (1962)
- Rififi à Tokyo (1963) as Van Hekken
- Symphonie pour un massacre (1963) as Paoli
- A King Without Distraction (1963) as Le procureur du Roi
- Magnet of Doom (1963) as Dieudonné Ferchaux
- Le Chant du monde (1965) as Marinau, le matelot
- Shock Troops (1967) as Passevin
- La prisonnière (1968) as L'invité au vernissage qui dit 'Oui, ça correspond au schéma du bonhomme' (uncredited)
- Ballade pour un chien (1969) as Viachet
- Sébastien et la Mary-Morgane (1970, TV) as Louis Maréchal
- Ils (1970) as Le professeur Swaine
- Comptes à rebours (1971) as Juliani
- La nuit bulgare (1972) as Bohringer
- Gang War in Naples (1972) as Don Mimo De Ritis
- The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life (1972) as Il Presidente, Giudice Dutz
- Par le sang des autres (1974) as Le curé
- Sept morts sur ordonnance (Jacques Rouffio, 1975) as Old Brézé
- Es herrscht Ruhe im Land (1976) as Großvater Parra
- Illustrious Corpses (1976) as Procurator Varga
- Boomerang (1976) as Me Ritter
- Golden Night (1976) as Charles Fournier
- À l'ombre d'un été (1976) as Jean Landot
- Alice or the Last Escapade (1977) as Henri Vergennes
- Ne pleure pas (1978) as Le grand-père
- Le chemin perdu (1980) as Léon Schwarz
- La Puce et le Privé (1981) as Mathieu Fortier
- Three Brothers (1981) as Donato Giuranna
- Si le soleil ne revenait pas (1987) as Anzevui
- Les Saisons du plaisir (1988) as Charles Van Bergh (final film role)
Awards
- 1953: Cannes International Film Festival - Special Mention - The Wages of Fear
- 1954: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Best Actor - L'Affaire Maurizius
- 1957: San Sebastian International Film Festival - Best Actor - Le feu aux poudres
- 1979: Honorary César Award for his career
- 1981: David Di Donatello Award - Best Supporting Actor - Three Brothers
References
- Associated Press (16 April 1989). "Charles Vanel, Stage And Screen Actor, 96". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
- "Charles Vanel - Cinémathèque française". cinema.encyclopedie.personnalites.bifi.fr. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
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