Charles Vanel

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Charles Vanel

Marie-Charles Vanel (born August 21, 1892 in Rennes , † April 15, 1989 in Cannes ) was a French actor and director . He is one of the actors with the longest film career and has been in front of the camera for 78 years.

Life

Charles Vanel began a nautical training as a teenager, which he had to drop out due to insufficient eyesight. In 1908 he made his stage debut as an actor in Paris, in 1910 he made his film debut in a small role. Several tours followed with Sacha Guitry . His first important roles he took on the side of Iwan Mosschuchin in La Maison du mystère (1923) by Alexander Wolkow and in Pêcheur d'Islande (1924), a fishing drama by Jacques de Baroncelli ; he worked frequently with director Baroncelli until 1944. In 1926 Vanel gained popularity as a lover in René Clair's La proie du vent and then appeared in international film productions. In 1927, with Da the world is holding its breath / Maquillage, Vanel made a series of film appearances in German-French co-productions or French language versions of German films that lasted until the mid-1930s. He also played the role of Napoleon in Karl Green's films Queen Luise and Waterloo . With the film drama Dans la nuit Vanel created his only work as a director and screenwriter in 1929; he also played the main role in it.

At the beginning of the 1930s he stood in front of the camera in Raymond Bernard's early sound films Les croix de bois (1931) and his 1933 film adaptation of Les misérables . He also took on important roles in films by Jacques Feyder and Marcel Carné . Especially in the 1950s, Vanel successfully embodied his role type of stoic, silent and inscrutable characters in French thrillers , including as a partner of Yves Montand in Le salaire de la peur and in Les diaboliques - both by Henri-Georges Clouzot . From the 1950s he was also seen in Italian films. He also played under Alfred Hitchcock in Over the Roofs of Nice (1954) and under Luis Buñuel in Breath of the Jungle (1956). His silent acting in Francesco Rosi's mafia film The Power and Its Price (1976) stands out from his late work . Thanks to his screen presence and his extremely long career, Vanel advanced to become an institution of French cinema. The actor was often used in smaller roles to give them special weight. Charles Vanel made his last film appearance in 1988 at the age of 96.

Awards

Charles Vanel received a 'Special Mention' at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953 for his performance in Clouzot's Le salaire de la peur . In 1954 he won the award for best actor in Duvivier's L'affaire Maurizius at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival . For his role in Henri Decoins Le feu aux poudres he was awarded the Zulueta Prize for Best Actor at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 1957 . As best supporting actor, he was honored in 1981 with a David di Donatello for his portrayal in Tre fratelli by Francesco Rosi. In 1979 Vanel was President of the 4th César Awards.

Filmography

  • 1920: Miarka, fille à l'ours
  • 1921: La fille de Camargue
  • 1921: Crépuscule d'épouvante
  • 1922: L'Âtre
  • 1922: Phroso
  • 1923: Le Vol
  • 1923: Tempêtes
  • 1923: La Mendiante de Saint-Sulpice
  • 1923: The mysterious house (La maison du mystère)
  • 1924: Pêcheur d'Islande
  • 1924: In the Spider's Web
  • 1924: L'autre aile
  • 1925: Le réveil
  • 1925: L'Orphelin du cirque
  • 1925: La flame
  • 1925: 600,000 francs par mois
  • 1926: La Proie du vent
  • 1927: Fire!
  • 1927: The white slave
  • 1927: Queen Luise
  • 1928: L'Équipage
  • 1928: Waterloo
  • 1928: Les Fourchambault
  • 1928: La femme rêvée
  • 1929: Three days of life and death
  • 1929: The love of the Rott brothers
  • 1929: In the Dark of the Night - Dans la nuit (Dans la nuit) - also directed
  • 1930: Chique, L'Arlésienne
  • 1930: Accusée, levez-vous!
  • 1931: La maison jaune de Rio
  • 1931: Maison de danses
  • 1931: Faubourg Montmartre
  • 1931: Daïnah la métisse
  • 1931: Affaire classée
  • 1932: Gitanes
  • 1932: The wooden crosses (Les croix de bois)
  • 1932: Au nom de la loi
  • 1933: Au bout du monde
  • 1934: Roi de Camargue
  • 1934: The Damned (Les Misérables)
  • 1934: the last stage (Le Grand Jeu)
  • 1935: L'Équipage
  • 1935: Michel Strogoff
  • 1935: Le Domino vert
  • 1936: Port-Arthur
  • 1936: La Peur
  • 1936: Jenny
  • 1936: Les Grands
  • 1936: La flame
  • 1936: Courrier Sud
  • 1936: Guild gang (La belle équipe)
  • 1936: Volga boatmen (Le bateliers de la Volga)
  • 1937: Troika sur la piste blanche
  • 1937: Police mondaine
  • 1937: Les Pirates du rail
  • 1937: L'Occident
  • 1937: Breach of trust (Abus de confiance)
  • 1938: Légions d'honneur
  • 1938: Carrefour
  • 1938: Bar du sud
  • 1938: L'Assaut
  • 1939: Yamilé sous les cèdres
  • 1939: La Brigade sauvage
  • 1940: L'Or du Cristobal
  • 1940: La Nuit merveilleuse
  • 1940: The law of the north (La loi du nord)
  • 1941: Le Diamant noir
  • 1942: Les affaires sont les affaires
  • 1942: The promise of a stranger (Promesse à l'inconnue)
  • 1942: Haut le vent
  • 1943: Le soleil a toujours raison
  • 1943: La Sévillane
  • 1943: Les Roquevillard
  • 1943: Jump into the clouds (Le ciel est à vous)
  • 1945: La cabane aux souvenirs
  • 1945: Le bateau à soupe
  • 1946: Father worries (Gringalet)
  • 1946: Passions Unleashed (La Ferme du pendu)
  • 1949: In the name of the law (In nome della legge)
  • 1950: Too late, Dr. Marchi (Il bivio)
  • 1950: La femme que j'ai assassinée
  • 1950: Inexorable love (Gli inesorabilii)
  • 1950: Malaire
  • 1950: Cuori sul mare
  • 1951: L'ultima sentenza
  • 1951: Incantesimo tragico
  • 1952: The reward of fear (Le Salaire de la peur)
  • 1953: Versailles - Kings and Women (Si Versailles m'était conté)
  • 1953: Tam tam nell'oltre Giuba
  • 1954: The Maurizius case (L'Affaire Maurizius)
  • 1954: Magdalena - Diary of a Lost Woman (Maddalena)
  • 1954: Hussar pranks (L'allegro squadrone)
  • 1954: Bring him alive ...! (Tam tam mayumbe)
  • 1955: The Diabolical (Les Diaboliques)
  • 1955: A man for Africa (Un missionnaire)
  • 1955: Above the roofs of Nice (To Catch a Thief)
  • 1956: Spit in Satan's face (Le Feu aux poudres)
  • 1956: Your bad reputation (Difendo il mio amore)
  • 1956: Breath of the jungle (La Mort en ce jardin)
  • 1957: Night over Paris (Rafles sur la ville)
  • 1957: Les Suspects
  • 1958: Greetings from the gorilla (Le Gorille vous salue bien)
  • 1958: The trap (Le piège)
  • 1958: Volga boatman (I battellieri del Volga)
  • 1958: The Ostracized (Les naufrageurs)
  • 1958: Pêcheur d'Islande
  • 1959: The gorilla strikes (La valse du gorille)
  • 1960: The Truth (La Vérité)
  • 1960: María, matrícula de Bilbao
  • 1961: Tintin and the secret of the golden fleece (Tintin et le mystère de la toison d'or)
  • 1961: The steppe (La steppa)
  • 1961: Rififi in Tokyo (Du rififi à Tokyo)
  • 1962: Shots in the piazza (Lo sgarro)
  • 1962: The millions of a hunted (L'Aîné des Ferchaux)
  • 1963: A King Alone (Un roi sans divertissement)
  • 1963: Seven dead a week (Symphonie pour un massacre)
  • 1965: And the woods will be silent (Le Chant du monde)
  • 1966: Ballade for a Dog (Ballade pour un chien)
  • 1967: One man too many (Un homme de trop)
  • 1968: His prisoner (La Prisonnière)
  • 1968: Maldonne
  • 1970: Dreams to Order (Ils)
  • 1970: The Boss (Comptes à rebors)
  • 1972: Camorra (Camorra)
  • 1972: The kidnappers send their regards (L'aventure, c'est l'aventure)
  • 1972: The most beautiful soirée of my life (La più bella serata della mia vita)
  • 1974: The Ruthless One (Par le sang des autres)
  • 1975: Quartet Bestial (Sept morts sur ordonnance)
  • 1976: The country is quiet
  • 1976: Power and its price (Cadaveri eccellenti)
  • 1976: Like a boomerang (Comme un boomerang)
  • 1976: Alice (Alice ou la dernière fugue)
  • 1977: Nuit d'Or - The Night of Gold (Nuit d'or)
  • 1978: Ne pleure pas
  • 1979: The lost time (Le chemin perdu)
  • 1981: Three Brothers (Tre fratelli)
  • 1982: The old and the young Michaud (Les Michaud)
  • 1987: L'Été en pente douce
  • 1987: If the sun didn't come back (Si le soleil ne revenait pas)
  • 1988: a turbulent weekend (Les saisons du plaisir)

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