Charles Vanel
Actor, Film actor
1892 – 1989
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Who was Charles Vanel?
Charles-Marie Vanel, known as Charles Vanel 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 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 and Klaus Kinski.
In his 77-year career he appeared in more than 200 films.
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- Born
- Aug 21, 1892
Rennes - Also known as
- Charles-Marie Vanel
- Spouses
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Died
- Apr 15, 1989
Cannes
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on July 23, 2013
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