Pierre Vaneck
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.
Known for
Threshold of the Void
Dr. Liancourt
The Heat of a Thousand Suns
(voice)
The Cousteau Collection N°1-2 | Sleeper Sharks of the Yucatan
Narateur
Why Women Sin
Frédéric Martignac, aka Fred
Mircea Eliade et la redécouverte du sacré
Love Me No More
le père d'Antoine
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
Le Soleil en face
Dr. Norbert Bollinger
Potatoes
German soldier (uncredited)
Nero
Paul of Tarsus
Year of the Jellyfish
Pierre Rivaut
Furia
Aaron
Is Paris Burning?
Maj. Roger Gallois
Enchanted Isles
Abrantes
Sin with a Stranger
François
Thank You, Natercia
Alain
Sweet Country
Father Venegas
La Face de l'Ogre
Ringler
The Science of Sleep
Mr. Pouchet
Les Cœurs brûlés
Marc Leroy
Misdeal
Jacques Christens
Portuguese Vacation
Pierre
Imperium: Nero
Paolo di Tarso
The Irony of Chance
Werner Von Rompsay
Retour à Fonteyne
Aurélien Laverzac
Famous Love Affairs
René de La Roche
The Apocalypse of the Animals
Narrator
Aux frontières du possible
Yan Thomas
October Revolution
Narrator (French version) (voice)
A.D.A. : L'argent des autres
André Jorgensen
Le collier de velours
Gilbert Piersaint
Biribi
Ponchard
Thérèse Étienne
Gottfried Muller
La fin du marquisat d'Aurel
Palamède d'Aurel
Fabien Cosma
André Cosma
Operation Leopard
Colonel Grasser
L'Homme d'Amsterdam
Pierre Vermeer
He Who Must Die
Manolios
« Art »
Marc
No Sky Limit with Africa
Ian Coburn
Marianne of My Youth
Vincent Lauranger
Forgive Our Trespasses
René
East Wind
doktor Josef Hoop, premier rządu Liechtensteinu
Justice
Gilbert Le Guen
Portrait: Orson Welles
Narrator (voice)
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
Tony
Le dossier Chelsea Street
George Steward
A Man Named Rocca
Xavier Adé
If Paris Were Told to Us
François Villon
Paradise Calling
Noah
Le Reflet dans la mer
Karl de Lincken
La Source des Sarrasins
Armand
As in Heaven
Dr. Charcot
Return to Algiers
Blanville
The Season for Love
Sylvain
The Proprietor
Raymond T.K
The Forbidden Volcano
Narrator (voice)
Cinq-Mars
Louis XIII
Saint-Just and the Force of Things
Maximilien Robespierre
Tournoi
Narrator (voice)
If I Had Four Dromedaries
Récitant (voice)
Les Enfants du vent
Mayor
Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter
Stam
Discorama
Self