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Charles Vanel (1892–1989)

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Distinguished French star character actor, on stage from 1908, in films from 1912. Did his best work for director Henri-Georges Clouzot, achieving international stardom with Diabolique and (as Yves Montand's co-driver) in the riveting The Wages of Fear. Winner of both a 1953 Best Actor Award, and a 1970 Lifetime Achievement Award, at the Cannes Film Festival. See more trivia »

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Charles-Marie Vanel
in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France

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(age 96) in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France
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1988 Les saisons du plaisir
Charles Van Bergh
 
1987 Les Michaud (TV movie)
Léon Michaud
 
1987 If the Sun Never Returns
Anzevui
 
1982 Otototoï (TV movie)
Toine
 
1981 Three Brothers
Donato Giuranna
 
1981 La puce et le privé
Mathieu Fortier
 
1980 The Mandarin (TV movie)
Léon Chaput
 
1980 Caméra une première (TV series)
M. Daru
– L'oasis (1980) … M. Daru
 
1980 The Lost Way
Léon Schwarz
 
1978 Thomas Guérin... retraité (TV movie)
Thomas Guérin
 
1978 Cinéma 16 (TV series)
Thomas Guérin
– Thomas Guérin, retraité (1978) … Thomas Guérin
 
1978 Ne pleure pas
Le grand-père
 
1977 Alice or the Last Escapade
Henri Vergennes
 
1976 Golden Night
Charles Fournier
 
1976 Boomerang
Me Ritter
 
1976 Cadaveri eccellenti
Procurator Varga
 
1976 Es herrscht Ruhe im Land
Großvater Parra
 
1976 À l'ombre d'un été
Jean Landot
 
1975 7 morts sur ordonnance
Old Brézé
 
1975 La vie de plaisance (TV movie)
Marcel
 
1974 Le juge et son bourreau (TV movie)
Le commissaire Baerlach
 
1974 Par le sang des autres
Le curé
 
1973 Le violon de Vincent (TV movie)
Vincent
 
1973 Au bout du rouleau (TV movie)
Le capitaine Whalley
 
1973 Le reflet dans la mer (TV movie)
Baron Ucciani
 
1972-1973 Les Thibault (TV mini-series)
Oscar Thibault
– Episode #1.3 (1973) … Oscar Thibault
– Episode #1.2 (1972) … Oscar Thibault
– Episode #1.1 (1972) … Oscar Thibault
 
1972 La più bella serata della mia vita
Il Presidente, Giudice Dutz
 
1972 Gang War in Naples
Don Mimo De Ritis
 
1972 La nuit bulgare
Bohringer
 
1972 Le père Goriot (TV movie)
Père Goriot
 
1971 Reckonings Against the Grain
Juliani
 
1970 Belle et Sébastien (TV series)
Captain Louis Maréchal
 
1970 Them
Le professeur Swaine
 
1969 Ballad for a Dog
Viachet
 
1968 Les grandes espérances (TV movie)
Abel Magwitch
 
1968 Woman in Chains
L'invité au vernissage qui dit 'Oui, ça correspond au schéma du bonhomme' (uncredited)
 
1968 La séparation (TV movie)
Louis Vigué
 
1967 Un homme de trop
Passevin
 
1967 L'Arlésienne (TV movie)
Le berger Balthazar
 
1965 Song of the World
Marinau, le matelot
 
1963 Magnet of Doom
Dieudonné Ferchaux
 
1963 A King Without Distraction
Le procureur du Roi
 
1963 Symphonie pour un massacre
Paoli
 
1963 Rififi in Tokyo
Van Hekken
 
1962 La steppa
Pére Christophore
 
1962 Lo sgarro
 
1961 Tintin et le mystère de la Toison d'Or
Père Alexandre
 
1960 On roule à deux (TV movie)
 
1960 María, matrícula de Bilbao
El viejo
 
1960 The Truth
Maître Guérin
 
1959 Gorilla's Waltz
Berthomieu dit 'Le Vieux'
 
1959 Island Fishermen
L'armateur Mével
 
1959 Prisoner of the Volga
Ossip Semjonowitsch
 
1959 Les naufrageurs
Marnez
 
1958 The Mask of the Gorilla
Colonel Berthomieu
 
1958 No Escape
Caillé
 
1958 Sinners of Paris
Léonce Pozzi, dit "Le Fondu"
 
1957 The Suspects
Commissaire Perrache
 
1957 Le feu aux poudres
Albatrasse
 
1956 Death in the Garden
Castin
 
1956 Defend My Love
Verdisio
 
1955 A Missionary
Père Gauthier
 
1955 Mondo Keazunt
Carlo Leonardi
 
1955 To Catch a Thief
Bertani
 
1955 Diabolique
Alfred Fichet, le commissaire
 
1955 Quando tramonta il sole
 
1954 The Cheerful Squadron
Il capitano Hurluret
 
1954 On Trial
Wolf Andergast
 
1954 Maddalena
Giovanni Lamberti
 
1954 Royal Affairs in Versailles
Monsieur de Vergennes
 
1953 The Wages of Fear
M. Jo
 
1952 Malaire
Noguère aîné
 
1951 L'ultima sentenza
Giudice Marco Valsetti
 
1951 Tragic Spell
Bastiano
 
1951 Il bivio
Lubiani
 
1950 Cuori sul mare
Nostromo Norus
 
1950 The Fighting Men
Don Salvatore Sparaino
 
1949 Vertigine d'amore
Mugnaio Resplanton/France: Emile Resplandin
 
1949 In the Name of the Law
Massaro Turi Passalacqua
 
1948 La femme que j'ai assassinée
 
1947 Woman of Evil
Laurent
 
1947 La cabane aux souvenirs
Lauragais
 
1946 Le bateau à soupe
Le capitaine Hervé
 
1946 Gringalet
Ravaut
 
1945 La ferme du pendu
François
 
1945 Enquête du 58 (short)
 
1944 The Woman Who Dared
Pierre Gauthier
 
1943 Les Roquevillard
François Roquevillard
 
1943 Le soleil a toujours raison
L'homme du mas
 
1942 Haut le vent
François Ascarra
 
1942 Promise to the Unknown One
Bernard Parker
 
1942 Les affaires sont les affaires
Isidore Lechat
 
1941 The Black Diamond
François Mitry
 
1940 La nuit merveilleuse
Le fermier
 
1940 Cristobal's Gold
Le Coronel, le chef de la police
 
1939 La loi du nord
Le caporal Dalrymple
 
1939 Yamilé sous les cèdres
Rachid
 
1939 Savage Brigade
Général Kalitjeff
 
1938 The West
Jean Cadière
 
1938 Carrefour
Roger de Vétheuil
 
1938 S.O.S. Sahara
Loup
 
1938 Southern Bar
Le capitaine Olivier
 
1938 Legions of Honor
Captaine Dabrau
 
1938 La femme du bout du monde
Durc, l'officier mécanicien
 
1938 Les pirates du rail
Henri Pierson
 
1937 Abused Confidence
Jacques Ferney
 
1937 Troïka sur la piste blanche
Michel Steinberg
 
1937 Police mondaine
Salviati
 
1937 Southern Carrier
Herlin, Ambassadeur
 
1936 L'assaut
Alexandre Mérital
 
1936 I Give My Life
Commander Vassidloff
 
1936 Les grands
Henri Lormier
 
1936 Jenny
Benoit
 
1936 They Were Five
Charles dit Charlot
 
1936 The Flame
 
1936 La peur
Robert Sylvain
 
1936 Michel Strogoff
Ivan Ogareff
 
1935 Le domino vert
Nebel - un sculpteur
 
1935 Flight Into Darkness
Le lieutenant Maury
 
1935 L'impossible aveu
Fred
 
1935 Les bateliers de la Volga
Le colonel Goreff
 
1934 Le grand jeu
Clément
 
1934 Au bout du monde
Geroges Laudy
 
1934 Les Misérables
Inspecteur Javert
 
1934 Roi de Camargue
Rampal
 
1933 Obsession (short)
Pierre
 
1932 Daïnah la métisse
Le mécanicien Michaux
 
1932 In the Name of the Law
Lancelot
 
1932 Wooden Crosses
Caporal Breval
 
1932 Affaire classée (short)
Le forain
 
1932 Gitanes
Léon
 
1931 Faubourg Montmartre
André Marco, dit Dédé
 
1931 Maison de danses
Ramon
 
1931 La maison jaune de Rio
King-Fu/Scalpa
 
1930 Accused, Stand Up!
L'Homme
 
1930 Chiqué
Francois
 
1930 L'Arlésienne
Mitifio, un gardian
 
1929 Fourchambault
 
1929 An Ideal Woman
 
1929 Die Liebe der Brüder Rott
 
1929 Drei Tage auf Leben und Tod - aus dem Logbuch der U.C.1
Der Steuermann
 
1929 Dans la nuit
L'ouvrier carrier
 
1929 Waterloo
Napoleon
 
1928 Last Flight
 
1928 Königin Luise, 2. Teil
Napoleon
 
1928 Le passager
 
1927 Apaches of Paris
Bécot
 
1927 Martyre
 
1927 The White Slave
Dr. Warner
 
1927 Königin Luise, 1. Teil - Die Jugend der Königin Luise
Napoleon
 
1927 Feu!
Le lieutenant Frémiet
 
1927 Make Up
 
1927 The Prey of the Wind
Pierre Vignal
 
1927 Island Fishermen
Jan
 
1927 Charité
 
1926 Nitchevo
 
1926 La nuit de la revanche
 
1926 La flamme
Boussat
 
1925 Barocco
Barocco
 
1925 600000 francs par mois
 
1925 L'orphelin du cirque
 
1925 Le réveil
 
1924 Heart of an Actress
 
1924 Le vol
Favier
 
1924 La flambée des rêves
Lucien Réneval
 
1924 L'autre aile
Gaston Lager
 
1924 Les cinquante ans de Don Juan (short)
 
1924 In the Spider's Web
Stephen Powers
 
1923 Calvaire d'amour
Georges Brémond
 
1923 La maison du mystère
Henri Corradin
 
1923 Du crépuscule à l'aube
 
1923 La mendiante de Saint-Sulpice
 
1922 Tillers of the Soil
Bernard Larade
 
1922 Tempêtes
Raoul Mauduit
 
1922 Phroso
Dimitri
 
1921 Miarka, the Child of the Bear
 
1921 La fille de Camargue
 
1921 Crépuscule d'épouvante
 
1917 La p'tite du sixième
 
1910 Jim Crow (short)
 
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1932 Affaire classée (short)
 
1929 Dans la nuit
 
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1952 Malaire (producer)
 
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1929 Dans la nuit (writer)
 
Show ShowSelf (7 titles)
1985 Drôle de festival (TV documentary short)
Lui-même
 
1981 Charles Vanel, les sillons de la vie (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1979 Charles Vanel ou La passion du métier (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1977-1979 La nuit des Césars (TV series documentary)
Himself / Himself - Le président des Césars
– 4ème nuit des Césars (1979) … Himself - Le président des Césars
– 2ème nuit des Césars (1977) … Himself
 
1979 Un comédien lit un auteur (TV series)
Himself
– Charles Vanel lit Jules Verne (1979) … Himself
 
1970 Monsieur Cinéma (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 25 January 1970 (1970) … Himself
 
1959 Cinépanorama (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Episode dated 12 June 1959 (1959) … Himself
 
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1936 The Road to Glory
French soldier (uncredited)
 

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Distinguished French star character actor, on stage from 1908, in films from 1912. Did his best work for director Henri-Georges Clouzot, achieving international stardom with Diabolique and (as Yves Montand's co-driver) in the riveting The Wages of Fear. Winner of both a 1953 Best Actor Award, and a 1970 Lifetime Achievement Award, at the Cannes Film Festival. See more »

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