Charles Vanel

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1892-08-21 (97 years old)

Deathday

1989-04-15

Place of Birth

Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France

Charles Vanel

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charles-Marie Vanel, known as Charles Vanel (21 August 1892 in Rennes, France - 15 April 1989, in Cannes, France) was a French director and actor. He made his screen debut in 1912, in Robert Péguy's Jim Crow. His 77 year career comprised appearances in more than 200 films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Vanel, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    

Acting

1953

1955

1976

Boomerang

as Jean Ritter

1955

Diabolique

as Police Inspector Alfred Fichet

1959

Island Fishermen

as Shipowner Mével

1976

Golden Night

as Charles Fournier

1977

Alice or the Last Escapade

as Henri Vergennes

1932

Wooden Crosses

as Caporal Breval

1956

1939

Savage Brigade

as Général Kalitjeff

1960

The Truth

as Maître Guérin

1947

Le Bateau à soupe

as Le capitaine Hervé

1936

They Were Five

as Charles dit Charlot

1931

Faubourg Montmartre

as André Marco, dit Dédé

1934

Les Misérables

as Inspector Javert

1954

Royal Affairs in Versailles

as Mr. de Vergennes

1963

Magnet of Doom

as Dieudonné Ferchaux

1923

L'Autre aile

as Gaston Lager

1936

The Seniors

as Henri Lormier

1937

Troïka sur la piste blanche

as Michel Steinberg

1937

Social Police

as Salviati

1938

Legions of Honor

as Captain Dabrau

1941

The Black Diamond

as François Mitry

1942

1942

Haut le vent

as François Ascarra

1954

On Trial

as Wolf Andergast

1936

Jenny

as Benoit

1948

The Woman I Murdered

as François Bachelin

1958

The Mask of the Gorilla

as Colonel Berthomieu

1957

Burning Fuse

as Albatrasse

1963

A King Without Distraction

as le procureur du roi

1972

Le Père Goriot

as Father Goriot

1932

1973

Le Reflet dans la mer

as Baron Ucciani

1944

The Woman Who Dared

as Pierre Gauthier

1959

Gorilla's Waltz

as Berthomieu aka 'Le Vieux'

1981

La Puce et le privé

as Mathieu Fortier

1930

In the Night

as L'ouvrier carrier

1958

Sinners of Paris

as Léonce Pozzi, dit "Le Fondu"

1945

L'Enquête du 58

as Bernard - le mécanicien

1949

In the Name of the Law

as Massaro Turi Passalacqua

1954

Maddalena

as Giovanni Lamberti

1988

The Seasons of Pleasure

as Charles van Bert

1963

Rififi in Tokyo

as Van Hekken

1935

Flight Into Darkness

as Le lieutenant Maury

1938

Crossroads

as Roger de Vétheuil

1972

Camorra

as Don Mimo De Ritis

1937

Abused Confidence

as Jacques Ferney

1945

Hanged Man's Farm

as François

1923

The House of Mystery

as Henri Corradin

1942

Business Is Business

as Isidore Lechat

1959

Prisoner of the Volga

as Ossip Semjonowitsch

1951

The Last Sentence

as Judge Marco Valsetti

1931

Dance House

as Ramon

1931

Rio's yellow house

as King-Fu / Scalpa

1951

Il bivio

as Lubiani

1957

The Suspects

as Commissioner Perrache of the D.S.T.

1935

The Green Domino

as Nebel, a sculptor

1947

Woman of Evil

as Laurent

1934

The Great Game

as Clement

1930

Accused, Stand Up!

as Henri Lapalle

1978

Ne pleure pas

as Le grand-père

1956

Defend My Love

as Verdisio

1927

The Prey of the Wind

as Pierre Vignal

1970

Them

as Professor Swaine

1965

Song of the World

as Marinau the sailor

1967

Shock Troops

as Passevin

1932

1969

1940

The Wonderful Night

as le fermier

1981

Three Brothers

as Donato Giuranna

1968

La séparation

as Louis Vigué

1975

Es herrscht Ruhe im Land

as Großvater Parra

1976

Illustrious Corpses

as Procurator Varga

1929

Waterloo

as Napoleon

1959

The Wreckers

as Marnez

1974

Le juge et son bourreau

as Le commissaire Bairelard

1934

Obsession

as Pierre

1943

The Roquevillards

as François Roquevillard

1937

1938

Rail Pirates

as Henri Pierson

1958

No Escape

as Caillé

1943

1962

The Steppe

as Pére Christophore

1934

At the End of the World

as Geroges Laudy

1972

La nuit bulgare

as Bohringer

1936

Assault

as Alexandre Mérital

1946

Gringalet

as Lucien Ravaut

1939

Law of the North

as Dalrymple

1940

Cristobal's Gold

as Le Coronel - le chef de la police

1936

Port Arthur

as Commander Vassidloff

1951

1926

1922

Phroso

as Dimitri

1922

Tempêtes

as Raoul Mauduit

1950

Cuori sul mare

as Nostromo Norus

1938

The Woman at the End of the World

as Durc, l'Officier Mécanicien

1955

A Missionary

as Père Gauthier

1936

The Fear

as Robert Sylvain

1930

Chic

as Fernand (François)

1938

The West

as Jean Cadière

1930

L'Arlésienne

as Gardian Mitifio

1939

Yamilé Under the Cedars

as Rachid El Hame

1929

An Ideal Woman

as Angel Call

1954

The Cheerful Squadron

as Il capitano Hurluret

1927

Feu!

as Lieutenant Frémiet

1973

1980

The Lost Way

as Léon

1938

Southern Bar

as Captain Olivier

1950

The Fighting Men

as Don Salvatore Sparaino

1925

A Night of Romance

as Matteo Scaliuccio

1968

Woman in Chains

as L'invité au vernissage qui dit 'Oui, ça correspond au schéma du bonhomme' (uncredited)

1948

Vertigine d'amore

as Mugnaio Resplanton

Production

1930

In the Night

as Director

1930

In the Night

as Writer

1932

Case closed

as Director

1952

Malaire

as Producer

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