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Charles-Marie Vanel , known as Charles Vanel (21 August 1892 – 15 April 1989) was a French actor and director. He made his screen debut in 1912, in Robert Péguy 's Jim Crow , and is perhaps best remembered for his role as a desperate truck driver in Clouzot 's acclaimed[ 1] The Wages of Fear , a film that won both the Golden Bear and Palme d'Or in 1953.
In Hitchcock's 1955 film, To Catch a Thief , he played a restaurateur who had served in the French Resistance with Cary Grant . Later in his career he would act alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo (Magnet of Doom ) and Klaus Kinski (Golden Night ).
In his 77-year career he appeared in more than 200 films.
Selected filmography [ edit ]
Miarka (1920)
Tillers of the Soil (1923)
Heart of an Actress (1924)
Nitchevo (1926)
The Flame (1926)
The White Slave (1927)
Queen Louise (1927–28)
The Crew (1928)
Dans la nuit (film) (1929)
Accused, Stand Up! (1930)
Wooden Crosses (1932)
In the Name of the Law (1932)
Le Grand Jeu (1934)
Les Misérables (1934)
The Green Domino (1935)
Port Arthur (1936)
La belle équipe (1936)
The Flame (1936)
Jenny (1936)
S.O.S. Sahara (1938)
Cristobal's Gold (1940)
The Woman Who Dared (1944)
Hanged Man's Farm (1945)
The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur , Henri-Georges Clouzot , 1953 )
L'affaire Maurizius (1954)
Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955 )
To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock , 1955 )
Le Feu aux poudres (fr ) (1957)
Rafles sur la ville (fr ) (1957)
La Valse du Gorille (fr ) (1959)
The Truth (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960 )
Tintin and the Golden Fleece (Tintin et le mystère de la Toison d'or , Jean-Jacques Vierne , 1961 )
La steppa (1962)
A King Without Distraction (1963)
Rififi à Tokyo (fr ) (1963)
Symphonie pour un massacre (fr ) (1963)
Magnet of Doom (1963)
Le Chant du monde (1965)
Shock Troops (1967)
Sébastien et la Mary-Morgane (1970, TV)
Comptes à rebours (fr ) (1971)
Sept morts sur ordonnance (Jacques Rouffio , 1975 )
Golden Night (1976 )
Illustrious Corpses (1976)
Comme un boomerang (fr ) (1976)
Alice ou la dernière fugue (1977)
Three Brothers (1981)
Si le soleil ne revenait pas (1987)
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1946-1975
1976-2000
2001-present
1976–1989
1990–2009
2010–2029