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
  • On Trial (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
gollark: I think it has happened at least in the country fairly often, I don't know about *here*.
gollark: In places which definitely haven't done that well people still do it, though.
gollark: No, I mean people will just go to parties and stuff in the middle of a pandemic.
gollark: Even in situations when it *isn't* that they'll lose all their money, I mean.
gollark: People don't really avoid plagues, as it turns out.

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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