Pierre Vaneck
Born: 1931-04-15 in Lang Son, Indochine
Died: 2010-01-31
Known For: Acting
Biography
Pierre Vaneck (born Pierre Auguste Van Hecke; 15 April 1931 – 31 January 2010) was a French actor. During his career, he won a Molière Award in 1988 and received a César Award nomination in 2009. Son of a Belgian army officer, Pierre Vaneck spent his youth in Antwerp, Belgium, until the age of 17, when he started medical studies in Paris, France. Before long, he branched into studying acting, first at the Rene Simon school, and then at the Theatre Academy, under Henri Rollan. He earned his living meanwhile by working for a saddle-maker by day, and in the evenings, he recited François Villon's poems in cabarets. His début on the stage came in 1952 in The Three Musketeers in the role of Louis XIII. His first important role in the cinema was in the Julien Duvivier film, Marianne of my Youth in 1955. Pierre Vaneck was primarily a theatre and television actor. The general public knew him particularly for his television role as the father of the main character in Fabien Cosma, as well as in many other serials (Spring Tides, The Garonne...). Vaneck died on Sunday 31 January 2010, during open-heart surgery. He was married to Sophie Becker, daughter and sister of Jacques Becker and Jean Becker. His grandchildren, Aurélie and Thibaud Vaneck, are both actors, and feature in the television series Plus Belle la Vie which is broadcast on France 3 channel. Source: Article "Pierre Vaneck" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
2009
- A.D.A. : L'argent des autres as André Jorgensen
2008
- Love Me No More as le père d'Antoine
2006
- The Science of Sleep as Mr. Pouchet
2005
- No Sky Limit with Africa as Ian Coburn
2004
- Imperium: Nero as Paolo di Tarso
- Nero as Paul of Tarsus
2002
- La Source des Sarrasins as Armand
2001
- Fabien Cosma as André Cosma
2000
- Return to Algiers as Blanville
1999
- Furia as Aaron
- Justice as Gilbert Le Guen
- Retour à Fonteyne as Aurélien Laverzac
1998
- « Art » as Marc
1996
- The Proprietor as Raymond T.K
1995
- Othello as Brabantio
1993
- East Wind as doktor Josef Hoop, premier rządu Liechtensteinu
1992
- Les Cœurs brûlés as Marc Leroy
- As in Heaven as Dr. Charcot
1991
- Les Enfants du vent as Mayor
1988
- La Face de l'Ogre as Ringler
- Paradise Calling as Noah
1987
- Sweet Country as Father Venegas
- Mircea Eliade et la redécouverte du sacré
1986
- Le collier de velours as Gilbert Piersaint
1984
- Year of the Jellyfish as Pierre Rivaut
1981
- Cinq-Mars as Louis XIII
1980
- Operation Leopard as Colonel Grasser
- La fin du marquisat d'Aurel as Palamède d'Aurel
- Le Soleil en face as Dr. Norbert Bollinger
1976
- L'Homme d'Amsterdam as Pierre Vermeer
1975
- Saint-Just and the Force of Things as Maximilien Robespierre
- The Cousteau Collection N°1-2 | Sleeper Sharks of the Yucatan as Narateur
1974
- The Irony of Chance as Werner Von Rompsay
- Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter as Stam
- Threshold of the Void as Dr. Liancourt
1973
- The Apocalypse of the Animals as Narrator
- Le Reflet dans la mer as Karl de Lincken
1971
- Aux frontières du possible as Yan Thomas
- Biribi as Ponchard
1968
- Sin with a Stranger as François
- Portrait: Orson Welles as Narrator (voice)
1967
- October Revolution as Narrator (French version) (voice)
1966
- Is Paris Burning? as Maj. Roger Gallois
- If I Had Four Dromedaries as Récitant (voice)
- The Forbidden Volcano as Narrator (voice)
1965
- Enchanted Isles as Abrantes
- Tournoi as Narrator (voice)
- The Heat of a Thousand Suns as (voice)
1963
- Portuguese Vacation as Pierre
1962
- Le dossier Chelsea Street as George Steward
1961
- Famous Love Affairs as René de La Roche
- A Man Named Rocca as Xavier Adé
- The Season for Love as Sylvain
1960
- Thank You, Natercia as Alain
1959
- Discorama as Self
1958
- Thérèse Étienne as Gottfried Muller
- A Bullet in the Gun Barrel as Tony
- Why Women Sin as Frédéric Martignac, aka Fred
1957
- He Who Must Die as Manolios
1956
- If Paris Were Told to Us as François Villon
- Forgive Our Trespasses as René