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
Charles Vanel in 1934
Born
Charles-Marie Vanel

(1892-08-21)21 August 1892
Rennes, France
Died15 April 1989(1989-04-15) (aged 96)
Cannes, France
NationalityFrench
OccupationActor
Film director
Years active1910-1988

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

References
  1. Associated Press (16 April 1989). "Charles Vanel, Stage And Screen Actor, 96". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
  2. "Charles Vanel - Cinémathèque française". cinema.encyclopedie.personnalites.bifi.fr. Retrieved 21 November 2019.

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