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 wel...
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958
If Paris Were Told to Us
1956
If I Had Four Dromedaries
1966
Cinq-Mars
1981
A Man Named Rocca
1961
The Season for Love
1961
The Science of Sleep
2006
The Proprietor
1996
East Wind
1993
Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter
1974
Threshold of the Void
1974
As in Heaven
1992
Famous Love Affairs
1961
Les Enfants du vent
1991
Year of the Jellyfish
1984
Is Paris Burning?
1966
Le Soleil en face
1980
Nero
2004
Furia
1999
Love Me No More
2008
Potatoes
1969
The Heat of a Thousand Suns
1965
Return to Algiers
2000
La Source des Sarrasins
2002
Forgive Our Trespasses
1956
He Who Must Die
1957
Enchanted Isles
1965
Thank You, Natercia
1960
Operation Leopard
1980
Misdeal
1969
Biribi
1971
Portuguese Vacation
1963
La Face de l'Ogre
1988
Sin with a Stranger
1968
The Irony of Chance
1974
Le collier de velours
1986
Sweet Country
1987
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1998