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