Charles Vanel
Date of birth: 1892-08-21
Place of birth: Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Charles-Henri Vanel, Шарль Ванель
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.
Movie Credits
The Wages of Fear
1953-04-22
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into
To Catch a Thief
1955-08-03
When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The
Boomerang
1976-08-15
A reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer.
Diabolique
1955-01-29
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely
Le Passager
1928-10-17
At the time of the departure of a freighter, a man runs on the pier, begging that he be taken aboard
The Awakening
1925-11-06
Golden Night
1976-10-01
After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns from the dead and
Island Fishermen
1959-06-24
Yan, captain of a fishing boat, falls in love with the daughter of his boss, to the great displeasur
Alice or the Last Escapade
1977-01-19
One night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. It's a dark, rainy nig
Wooden Crosses
1932-03-17
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he
Death in the Garden
1956-09-21
In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local govern
Savage Brigade
1939-04-26
The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war
The Truth
1960-11-02
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witness
If the Sun Never Returns
1987-09-02
In a remote Swiss mountain village, the self-proclaimed prophet and sorcerer Anzevui foretells that
Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece
1961-12-06
After the death of Captain Thémistocle Paparanic, Captain Haddock's old friend, he inherits a ship c
Le Bateau à soupe
1947-02-19
Hervé is a tough sea captain in command of the "Duchesse Anne", a rum-trading ship. But the sea dog
They Were Five
1936-09-01
Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, th
Faubourg Montmartre
1931-10-02
Two sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.
Les Misérables
1934-02-09
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1954-02-10
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocra
Magnet of Doom
1963-09-25
Young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to
La Flambée des rêves
1924-10-03
Claire is married to the elderly owner of a brewery. She seeks excitement with her childhood friend
Gitanes
1933-03-03
A gypsy and a boatman fall in love with each other. They do not understand each other and make each
L'Autre aile
1923-11-30
Reymat is killed during an aerobatic exhibition in a plane. Hélène, his fiancée, to forget her grief
The Yellow Captain
1930-12-19
King of the Camargue
1935-01-24
A gypsy has cast a spell on Livette, the fiancee of Renaud, the proud guardian nicknamed, King of th
L'Impossible Aveu
1935-06-07
A cabaret singer incites the man who loves her to perpetrate a burglary to avenge the one she loves
The Flame
1936-05-08
A woman of easy virtue rejects a proposal of marriage made to her by a rich lover. But when her son
The Seniors
1936-09-29
A high school in the thirties: most of the students are leaving for the Easter holidays. However, on
Troïka sur la piste blanche
1937-06-18
Wife of an arms trafficker in Poland, Georgina is forced to help him. She will only be able to regai
Social Police
1937-04-09
For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful l
Legions of Honor
1938-02-17
An officer is tried for self-inflicted injury.He is thrown out of the Foreign Legion .
S.O.S. Sahara
1938-08-17
At a North Africa desert outpost threatened by Arabs, the French commander has added trouble when hi
The Black Diamond
1941-06-25
A wealthy man's wife dies in a car crash; she is survived by him and their daughter. The father lear
Promise to the Unknown One
1942-10-02
A young woman is in love with a young writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt. Married to a banker, she
Haut le vent
1942-09-23
In 1906, François left the Basque country with his father, who had decided to settle in Argentina fo
On Trial
1954-06-04
Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumpt
Barocco
1925-11-20
Jenny
1936-09-18
When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny
La Cabane aux souvenirs
1947-09-10
Laurangeais stays in a nursing home after his wife dies following an accident caused by Terrian, his
The Woman I Murdered
1948-11-26
During a singles meal, the phone rings. A woman claims a man, Jean-Louis. As a joke, the master of t
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
1972-12-22
A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on
Seven Deaths by Prescription
1975-12-03
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector wi
Malaire
1952-01-14
Noguère, an old patriarch, is about to die and decides to confess at last to a priest. He once lived
The Mask of the Gorilla
1958-08-14
Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltra
Burning Fuse
1957-02-27
Lola, the wife of arms dealer Pedro Wassewich, is attracted to Ludovic, a young painter who turns ou
A King Without Distraction
1963-08-30
A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth cen
Le Père Goriot
1972-03-09
Jean-Joachim Goriot, a merchant who got rich during the Revolution, is obsessed with the love of his
Dainah the Mixed
1932-08-19
After three weeks and a long, hot voyage across the Pacific, an ocean liner finally arrives at its d
Le Reflet dans la mer
1973-03-28
Karl de Linken, an elegant young man, adventurous and unattached, arrives in the square of a small C
The Woman Who Dared
1944-02-03
The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family
Gorilla's Waltz
1959-05-01
This is the second feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla,
La Puce et le privé
1981-03-11
Val Brosse, a private detective, receives Françoise, who confesses to him that she murdered her husb
In the Night
1930-05-16
A quarry worker gets married and lives his marital bliss, until an explosion at his workplace, a min
Sinners of Paris
1958-01-15
Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Cha
L'Enquête du 58
1945-11-04
A train driver has not slowed down at a signal and caused an accident whose victim is a gatekeeper.
In the Name of the Law
1949-03-13
A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the
Maddalena
1954-08-07
The story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local priest
The Seasons of Pleasure
1988-02-10
Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their produc
Rififi in Tokyo
1963-03-29
Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuab
Flight Into Darkness
1935-10-22
During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre A
Crossroads
1938-09-09
A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a
Camorra
1972-08-30
The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He wil
Abused Confidence
1937-11-29
Lydia (Danielle Darrieux) is a student, poor and orphaned, who pretends to be the daughter of a famo
Tillers of the Soil
1923-01-02
One of two peasant brothers in love with the same woman escapes his grim country life and pursues a
Hanged Man's Farm
1945-12-05
A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry not
Iceland Fisherman
1924-10-10
Faithfully reproduced observations of Breton fisherfolk in story of the man a local woman really lov
The House of Mystery
1923-01-02
Julien Villandrit is the owner of the estate of Les Basses-Bruyères and its textile factory, where t
Business Is Business
1942-09-10
Isidore Lechat is a ruthless self-made man whose money allows him to humiliate the others, particula
Prisoner of the Volga
1959-03-26
A vicious play of intrigue, about love, desire and betrayal, in the dress of the military at the Cos
The Last Sentence
1951-11-15
Piero is the leader of a group of university students who lead a carefree life. Finding himself in t
The Flame
1926-01-15
Cléo d'Aubigny, a music-hall star, once had a love affair with the rich Lord Sedley and had a son fr
Rio's yellow house
1931-03-20
When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who lo
Dance House
1931-01-09
Three men vie for a pretty young lady in a small Spanish port town: The boss of a dance hall who enc
Il bivio
1951-03-19
After the war, Aldo and his men became gangster. But now the times are changing and Aldo decides to
The Suspects
1957-08-20
Commissaire Perrache, the chief of the D.S.T., the French domestic intelligence service, tries to ne
The Green Domino
1935-12-27
After his girlfriend is murdered, an art critic realizes that a wealthy heiress is falling in love w
Woman of Evil
1947-09-23
Laurent meets Louvaine and brings her back to his island.
The Great Game
1934-05-02
Pierre , a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence and her whims of luxury li
Accused, Stand Up!
1930-09-12
Paris, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to
Ne pleure pas
1978-03-15
Marc Lafarge, 13, is idolized by his brother Thomas, 20, future veterinarian and amateur boxer. Thom
Defend My Love
1956-09-12
As part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a trial o
Lo sgarro
1963-02-06
A young man joins a band of brigands, but, faced with their exactions, rebels against them.
The Prey of the Wind
1927-05-12
A pilot crashes and a beautiful countess of a castle nearby nurses him to health.
Them
1970-11-18
An artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and artist
Song of the World
1965-10-07
In Haute-Provence, two rival farming clans clash over the four seasons of the year. A young lumberja
Shock Troops
1967-04-05
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently t
In the Name of the Law
1932-04-15
The story is about a drug ring and the finally successful efforts of the Paris police to break it up
Ballad for a Dog
1969-01-25
Remi is a man on the verge of old age who begins to have hallucinations. He believes he has found a
The Wonderful Night
1940-12-24
A couple of refugees arrives in a village: he is a cabinet maker, she's pregnant and the innkeeper r
Three Brothers
1981-03-19
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raff
La séparation
1968-09-17
Es herrscht Ruhe im Land
1975-11-15
A fictitious country in South America: the military has taken power in the state and rules with an i
Illustrious Corpses
1976-02-12
A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
Waterloo
1929-11-07
This presentation of 'Waterloo', a film by Karl Grune about the last hurrah of Napoleon, is a fascin
The Wreckers
1959-01-27
In 1852, the famine on a desolate Britanny's island named Blaz-Mor, off the coast of Finistère. Some
Drei Tage auf Leben und Tod - Aus dem Logbuch der U.C.1
1929-01-01
Le juge et son bourreau
1974-11-08
The body of a young man in a dress suit is found on a country road by Lake Biel in Switzerland. The
Obsession
1934-03-23
A man who suffers from the delirium of persecution and to the point of trying to strangle his wife i
The Roquevillards
1943-07-28
France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that
Southern Carrier
1937-01-22
A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance w
Rail Pirates
1938-01-19
Henri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the inces
No Escape
1958-06-25
In Provence , Father Caillé runs a family pension backed by his daughter-in-law Cora and a maid. The
Le soleil a toujours raison
1943-01-27
Tonio, pretty Micheline's fiance, meets Georgia ,a gypsy who makes advances to him.
The Steppe
1962-03-06
Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young
At the End of the World
1934-03-30
La nuit bulgare
1972-04-20
A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulga
Assault
1936-12-31
Alexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one of
Countdown to Vengeance
1970-01-29
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a
Heart of an Actress
1924-10-07
Desire brings out the worst in an actress' suitors-- One a well-to-do patron of London's theatre set
Gringalet
1946-11-20
A wealthy man has two sons,one of them is legitimate,the other is not.The first offspring has had a
Symphony for a Massacre
1963-04-23
A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug trafficke
Law of the North
1939-09-04
Robert Shaw slaughters his wife's lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a Fre
Cristobal's Gold
1940-04-22
Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La
Port Arthur
1936-12-11
French-language version of Port Arthur (1936), a German language film (q.v.) co-produced by German,
Incantesimo tragico
1951-10-13
L'Arlésienne
1967-01-01
Native Drums
1955-09-09
A team of doctors sets out through a steamy African jungle to check an outbreak of sleeping sickness
Mister Mustard's Millions
1926-07-02
When bored American billionaire Charles Vanel is amused by the happiness of poor railroad man Nicola
Phroso
1922-01-13
An Englishman, Lord Wheatley, purchases an island over which reigns the supremely beautiful Phroso,
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
1969-01-01
Documentary about filmmaker Jean Grémillon.
The Child of the Carnival
1921-07-29
A foundling is left in front of the home of a rich aristocratic bachelor during the Nice carnival. T
Tempêtes
1922-06-09
Michel Strogoff
1936-03-10
The Czar charges a man to deliver a message to the Grand Duke behind enemy lines. On his way he enco
Apaches of Paris
1927-12-17
Cuori sul mare
1950-11-09
Two young men from the Navy fall in love with an actress.
The Woman at the End of the World
1938-01-19
A sailor falls in love with an innkeeper on a lost island.
A Missionary
1955-12-02
Dreaming of heroic deeds, a young missionary soon becomes disillusioned.
Les Bateliers de la Volga
1935-07-05
In 1912, a Russian officer is wrongly accused of having stolen important papers. His only alibi bein
Die weisse Sklavin
1927-09-22
The Fear
1936-04-10
A lady who had a secret affair lives in fear.
Calvaire d'amour
1923-12-05
Chic
1930-02-14
An American couple, Douglas and Mary, are in the nightclub 'La Vache Rose'. When Julot and Nini are
The West
1938-02-16
The film portrays the relationship between a female Moroccan student, who has been forced to leave h
L'Arlésienne
1930-09-19
Yamilé Under the Cedars
1939-06-01
A Lebanese Christian girl of European origin is attracted to a visiting Muslim chief and rides off w
An Ideal Woman
1929-07-05
Based on a novel by José Pérez de Rozas. In Seville, Angel Caal, a Parisian businessman, escapes bli
The Cheerful Squadron
1954-12-05
The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by m
Feu!
1927-05-29
Case closed
1932-09-16
The owner of a fairground shooting gallery, haunted by the crime he committed ten years before with
The Lost Way
1980-01-09
While the Easter holidays are over, a young woman named Cécile and her brother Pierre return to the
The End of the Tether
1973-08-15
An experienced but aging captain in command of the Sofala must hide the fact that he is becoming bli
Nitchevo
1926-12-20
Southern Bar
1938-03-23
Baron Arnold, a businessman, takes his young wife to Africa where he instructs her to seduce Captain
The Fighting Men
1950-11-01
Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man intent
A Night of Romance
1925-09-04
Woman in Chains
1968-11-20
Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising
Vertigine d'amore
1948-01-01
Italian movie inspired by "Le pain des pauvres".
Miarka, la fille à l'ourse
1920-10-19
Miarka is to marry a gypsy chief - whereabouts unknown. She and her tame bear live upon the estate o