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Biography
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.
Career
Movies.
1954 : Huis clos by Jacqueline Audry
1955 : Marianne of My Youth by Julien Duvivier
1956 : Si Paris nous était conté by Sacha Guitry
1956 : Celui qui doit mourir by Jules Dassin
1956 : Pardonnez nos offenses de Robert Hossein
1958 : Thérèse Etienne by Denys de La Patellière
1958 : La moucharde with Dany Carrel
1958 : Une balle dans le canon by Charles Gérard and Michel Deville
1959 : Merci Natercia by Pierre Kast
1960 : La Morte saison des amours by Pierre Kast
1961 : Les Amours célèbres by Michel Boisrond
1961 : Un nommé La Rocca by Jean Becker
1963 : Portuguese Vacation by Pierre Kast
1963 : Thank You, Natercia
1966 : Les Iles enchantées / As Ilhas encantadas by Carlos Vilardebo
1966 : Paris brûle-t-il? by René Clément
1968 : L'Étrangère by Sergio Gobbi
1968 : Maldonne by Sergio Gobbi
1969 : Les Patates by Claude Autant-Lara
1970 : L'Ile aux Coquelicots by Salvatore Adamo
1971 : Le Seuil du vide by Jean-François Davy
1971 : Biribi by Daniel Moosmann
1980 : Le Soleil en face by Pierre Kast
1980 : La Légion saute sur Kolwezi by Raoul Coutard
1983 : Erendira by Ruy Guerra
1993 : Vent d'est by Robert Enrico
1995 : Othello by Oliver Parker
1996 : La Propriétaire by Ismail Merchant
1999 : Là-bas, mon pays by Alexandre Arcady
1999 : Furia by Alexandre Aja
2006 : La Science des rêves by Michel Gondry
2008 : Deux jours à tuer by Jean Becker
Television.
La caméra explore le temps TV show by Stellio Lorenzi
1968 : Sarn by Claude Santelli
1971 : Aux frontières du possible
1975 : Saint-Just et la force des choses by Pierre Cardinal
1980 : La fin du marquisat d'Aurel by Guy Lessertisseur
1981 : Histoires extraordinaires TV show based on Edgar Allan Poe stories
1982 : Je tue il by Pierre Boutron
1984 : La Mafia Italian TV show by Sergio Silva
1988 : Le Démon écarlate by Joseph Drimal
1990 : Orages d'été, avis de tempête by Jean Sagols
1992 : Les Cœurs brûlés, by Jean Sagols
1993 : Les Grandes Marées, by Jean Sagols
2001 : Fabien Cosma,
2002 : Garonne by Claude d'Anna
2003 : Le soleil en face by Philippe Roussel
2009 : A.D.A. L'argent des Autres by Daniel Benoin
Theatre.
1952 : Les Trois Mousquetaires based on Alexandre Dumas book
1953 : Sud by Julien Green
1953 : La Maison de la nuit by Thierry Maulnier
1953 : La Chair de l'orchidée by James Hadley Chase
1954 : Pour le roi de Prusse by Maurice Bray
1954 : L'Ennemi by Julien Green
1955 : Le Bal des adieux by André Josset
1955 : L'Éventail de Lady Windermere by Oscar Wilde
1958 : La Paix du dimanche by John Osborne
1959 : Les Possédés by Albert Camus
1959 : Long voyage vers la nuit by Eugene O'Neill
1960 : Jules César by William Shakespeare
1961 : Les Violons parfois by Françoise Sagan
1962 : L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand
1963 : La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu by Jean Giraudoux
1963 : Le Cid by Corneille
1964 : Lorenzaccio by Alfred de Musset
1964 : Luther by John Osborne, directed Georges Wilson, Festival d'Avignon
1965 : La Calèche by Jean Giono,
1965 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Directed Georges Wilson, Festival d'Avignon
1967 : Le Duel by Anton Chekhov
1967 : Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
1970 : Dom Juan by Molière
1973 : La Reine de Césarée by Robert Brasillach
1977 : ''La Nuit de l'iguane by Tennessee Williams
1980 : La musique adoucit les mœurs by Tom Stoppard
1983 : Les Exilés by James Joyce
1985 : Retour à Florence by Henry James
1986 : La Salle d'attente
1987 : La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler
1987 : Le Secret by Henri Bernstein
1989 : La Traversée de l'hiver by Yasmina Reza
1990 : La Fonction by Jean-Marie Besset
1992 : Le Jugement dernier by Bernard-Henri Lévy
1993 : Passions secrètes by Jacques-Pierre Amette
1994 : « Art » by Yasmina Reza
1996 : La Cour des comédiens by Antoine Vitez
1999 : Copenhague by Michael Frayn
2002 : Hysteria by Terry Johnson
2003 : Déjeuner chez Wittgenstein by Thomas Bernhard
2006 : Opus Cœur by Israël Horovitz
2008 : Rock'N'Roll by Tom Stoppard
2009 : A.D.A. L'Argent des Autres by Jerry Sterner
Movies & TV shows
2008.
1 Movie
Love Me No More
2008
Antoine Méliot is around 40 years old and has everything he needs to be happy: a beautiful wife, two adorable children, friends he can count on, a pretty house in the Yvelines and money. But one day h...
2006.
1 Movie
The Science of Sleep
6.5
2006
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
2004.
1 Movie · 1 TV show
Imperium: Nero
2004
As a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his mother. While in exile in the pontine islands, Agrippina, his mother, sees a vision telling her tha...
2000.
1 Movie
Return to Algiers
2000
Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an u...
1999.
2 Movies
Furia
1999
In a desert town, sometime in the future, a repressive government regime restricts all forms of artistic expression. At night, Theo breaks the law, risking torture and death, to paint his work on publ...
1996.
1 Movie
The Proprietor
1996
Adrienne Mark (Jeanne Moreau) is the most acclaimed French novelist of her generation, whose best known work, Je M'Appelle France, was an international best-seller made into an award-winning French fi...
1993.
1 Movie
East Wind
1993
The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned for execution...
1992.
1 Movie · 1 TV show
As in Heaven
1992
Set on a remote farm on the west coast of Iceland in late summer 1936. Hrefna, encouraged by her grandmother’s stories, begins to mix past and future in her imagination, travelling back to the 14th ce...
1987.
2 Movies
Mircea Eliade et la redécouverte du sacré
1987
Mircea Eliade was a traditionalist Romanian novelist and philosopher. Following the disaster of the Second World War, he moved to Paris and Chicago, becoming a respected and influential historian of r...
Sweet Country
1987
An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
1984.
1 Movie
Year of the Jellyfish
1984
Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mother's lover. She experiments with other risque affairs in response to her inability to get ...
1980.
2 Movies · 1 TV show
Le Soleil en Face
1980
Famous writer, Marat retires to Portugal, where he lives surrounded by his family, including his wife Genevieve. When she learns she is diagnosed with cancer, she tries to hide the truth. But Marat do...
Operation Leopard
1980
In May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby Angola. Th...
1974.
2 Movies
Threshold of the Void
1974
The young artist Wanda Leibovitz comes to Paris, hoping to forget unfortunate love. Soon after arrival directly at the station Wanda meets the mysterious old woman suggesting to rent at it the room (w...
1971.
1 Movie · 1 TV show
Biribi
1971
Infantryman Jean Froissard is sentenced to two years in Biribi Military Prison in North Africa. He seems to get along, but as incompetence, corruption and sadism of his superiors (which include sexual...
TV
Aux frontières du possible
1971
Aux frontières du possible is a French television show that was broadcast from 1971 and 1974. The show was created by Henri Viard and Jacques Bergier, based on the latter's book Scientific Espionage. ...
1967.
1 Movie
October Revolution
1967
French director Frederic Rossif presents this historical documentary that coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Stock footage from both World Wars are included with 30 minutes...
1966.
3 Movies
Is Paris Burning?
1966
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much...
Le Volcan interdit
1966
Set in Zaire, the film follows an expedition exploring the crater of the Niragongo volcano of the Virunga chain, whose eruptions are known for their violence and their massive lava flows.
If I Had Four Dromedaries
1966
Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries, If I Had Four Dromedaries stages a probing, at times agitated, search...
1965.
2 Movies
The Heat of a Thousand Suns
1965
This ultimate masterpiece is set in the far future where a young man, bored by his surroundings, blasts off into space with only his cat and some robots for company. On a distant planet he discovers a...
Enchanted Isles
1965
A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her father and brother, dead while searching for mysterious valuables. The you...
1963.
1 Movie
Portuguese Vacation
1963
Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a romantic intrigue, with each character discovering a...
1961.
2 Movies
A Man Named Rocca
1961
Roberto went to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend, wrongly imprisoned, following a frame-up organized by his associate. Roberto ends up leader of the band when Villanova is killed because he tri...
1958.
2 Movies
Why Women Sin
1958
Dany Carrel plays a young miss who loves neither wisely nor well in La moucharde. Carrel is stuck on the wrong side of the law because she is hopelessly in love with a two-bit crook. Soon she becomes ...
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958
Back from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20 million, entrusted by a trafficker. They buy a nightclub in the district of Montparnasse but are soon hun...
1957.
1 Movie
He Who Must Die
1957
Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that conducts a passion play each year. The leading ci...
1956.
2 Movies
If Paris Were Told to Us
1956
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
1955.
1 Movie
Marianne of My Youth
1955
In a Bavarian forest, the pupils of a boarding school are about to have their lives changed by the arrival of Vincent, a young man who can charm wild animals with his guitar. One day Vincent ventures ...
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