Charles Vanel
Craggy-featured French character player and an occasional lead, in more than 200 films in a career spanning over 75 years. A slightly stocky man of medium height, with a rumbling voice and a strong, focused gaze, Vanel began in films in 1912 and would eventually be directed by the likes of Jacques Feyder, Luis Bunuel, Maurice Tourneur, Pierre Chenal, Claude Chabrol and Jean-Pierre Mocky. Early on in his screen career he played the leading role in a film he also wrote and directed, "In the Night" (1930), and he also did well as the nasty, relentless Inspector Javert opposite Harry Bauer in Raymond Bernard's screen version of "Les Miserables" (1934). As late as 1976 Vanel played the leading role of the grandfather in Peter Lilienthal's docudrama, "Es Herrscht Ruhe im Land."
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Charles Vanel
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Les Saisons du plaisir | Charles Van Bert (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | L'Ete en Pente Douce | Le manutentionnaire (Character) | - | 1987 |
100% |
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Three Brothers | Donato Giuranna (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Don't Cry | Le grand-père (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alice or the Last Escapade | Unknown (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Like a Boomerang | Me Ritter (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 7 Deaths by Prescription | Old Brézé (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gang War in Naples | Don Domenico De Ritis (Character) | - | 1972 |
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The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life | Dutz (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Un homme de trop | Passevin (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mask of the Gorilla | Colonel Berthomieu (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Symphony for a Massacre | Paoli (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Un roi sans divertissement | Le procureur du Roi (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rififi in Tokyo | Van Hekken (Character) | - | 1963 |
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L'aîné des Ferchaux (Magnet of Doom) | Unknown (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Magnet of Doom | Dieudonné Ferchaux (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece | Père Alexandre (Character) | - | 1961 |
67% |
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The Truth | Maître Guérin (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Prisoner of the Volga | Ossip Semjonowitsch (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gorilla's Waltz | Berthomieu dit "Le Vieux" (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mask of the Gorilla | Colonel Berthomieu (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rafles Sur la Ville | Unknown (Character) | - | 1958 |
92% |
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Diamond Hunters | Castin (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Defend My Love | Verdisio (Character) | - | 1956 |
93% |
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To Catch a Thief | Bertani (Character) | - | 1955 |
95% |
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Diabolique | Alfred Fichet, private detective (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Native Drums | Carlo Leonardi (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Maddalena | Giovanni Lamberti (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | On Trial | Wolf Andergast (Character) | - | 1954 |
100% |
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The Wages of Fear | Jo (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fighting Men | Don Salvatore Sparaino (Character) | - | 1950 |
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The Woman Who Dared | Pierre Gauthier (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Crossroads | Roger de Vétheuil (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Woman From the End of the World | Durc (Character) | - | 1938 |
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They Were Five | Charles dit Charlot (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jenny | Benoit (Character) | - | 1936 |
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Les Misérables | Inspecteur Javert (Character) | - | 1934 |
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Wooden Crosses | Caporal Breval (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In the Name of the Law | Lancelot (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daïnah la métisse | Michaux (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | L'Arlesiana | L'Arlésienne (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dans la nuit |
Unknown (Character), Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | An Ideal Woman | Angel Caal (Character) | - | 1929 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Flight | Unknown (Character) | - | 1928 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Prey of the Wind | Pierre Vignal (Character) | - | 1927 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Other Wing | Gaston Lage (Character) | - | 1924 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The House of Mystery | Henri Corradin (Character) | - | 1923 |