Peter van Eyck

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Peter van Eyck , actually Götz von Eick , according to other sources Götz von Hausenstein (born July 16, 1913 in Steinwehr , Western Pomerania , † July 15, 1969 in Männedorf , Switzerland ), was a German-American actor.

Life

After graduating from high school and not completing a music degree, he traveled to numerous countries, including Cuba in 1937, and then stayed in New York , where he initially worked as a bar pianist . He also composed and wrote for revues . For Irving Berlin he worked intermittently as a production assistant, and at Orson Welles he was briefly assistant director. A job as a truck driver took Van Eyck to Hollywood, where he met Billy Wilder again, whom he knew from Berlin. This helped him to smaller roles, mainly as a performer of characters of German origin, including some National Socialists .

In 1943 he became a US citizen and was drafted into the American army . After the end of the war he was employed in Germany as the American control officer for German film and remained head of the film section until 1948. During this time, van Eyck also worked for the first time in a German production ( Hallo Fräulein! ) As an actor.

He made his international breakthrough with the film Wages of Fear at the side of Yves Montand and Charles Vanel . Also in Fritz Lang's last film The 1000 Eyes of Dr. He was shown in Mabuse (1960). Van Eyck, who had played so many officers of the National Socialist regime before, played the role of an American in this film.

Van Eyck's first marriage was to the American actress Ruth Ford . They had a daughter named Shelly. With his second wife Inge von Voris he had daughters Kristina van Eyck and Claudia. He died of blood poisoning in 1969 . His grave is in the Catholic cemetery of St. Margrethen in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland .

Filmography

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  • 1953: Orient Express: The Hunted
  • 1955: The Adventures of Ellery Queen: Night Visitors
  • 1955: Your Play Time: Intolerable Portrait
  • 1955: Casablanca: Black Market Operation
  • 1956: Alfred Hitchcock Presents : Safe Conduct
  • 1956: Casablanca: Deadlock!
  • 1957: Code 3: The Rookie Sheriff
  • 1967: The Ivar Kreuger case
  • 1969: The Commissioner : The gun in the park

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Died - Peter van Eyck . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 1969, p. 120 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Peter von Eyck in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  3. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Peter van Eyck
personal data
SURNAME Eyck, Peter van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eick, Peter Götz von (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinwehr , Western Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH 15th July 1969
Place of death Männedorf , Switzerland