Charles Vanel

ActorProducerDirectorWriter 1920–1988 (68 year career)

5.9 avg rating

Highest Rated

La séparation

1968 · as Louis Vigué

10.0

L'Enquête du 58

1945 · as Bernard - le mécanicien

9.0

Cinépanorama

1956 · as Self

8.0

Known For

Film

The Wages of Fear

Mr. Jo

Film

Diabolique

Police Inspector Alfred Fichet

Film

To Catch a Thief

Bertani

Film

The Truth

Maître Guérin

Film

La Belle Équipe

Charles dit Charlot

Film

Illustrious Corpses

Procurator Varga

Film

Les Misérables

Inspector Javert

Film

Woman in Chains

L'invité au vernissage qui dit 'Oui, ça correspond au schéma du bonhomme' (uncredited)

Filmography

Acting (154)

Movies (149)

The Seasons of Pleasure

1988

as Charles van Bert

4.6

If the Sun Never Returns

as Anzevui

Three Brothers

as Donato Giuranna

La Puce et le privé

as Mathieu Fortier

The Lost Way

as Léon

Ne pleure pas

1978

as Le grand-père

4.8

Alice or the Last Escapade

as Henri Vergennes

Illustrious Corpses

as Procurator Varga

Boomerang

as Jean Ritter

Golden Night

as Charles Fournier

Es herrscht Ruhe im Land

1975

as Großvater Parra

Seven Deaths by Prescription

1975

as Pr Brézé

6.1

Le juge et son bourreau

1974

as Le commissaire Bairelard

2.0

The End of the Tether

1973

as Whalley

Le Reflet dans la mer

1973

as Baron Ucciani

Le Père Goriot

as Father Goriot

La nuit bulgare

as Bohringer

The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life

as Il Presidente

Camorra

as Don Mimo De Ritis

Them

as Professor Swaine

Countdown to Vengeance

1970

as Juliani

5.7

À la recherche de Jean Grémillon

1969

as Self

Ballad for a Dog

1969

as Viachet

La séparation

1968

as Louis Vigué

10.0

Woman in Chains

1968

as L'invité au vernissage qui dit 'Oui, ça correspond au schéma du bonhomme' (uncredited)

Shock Troops

as Passevin

L'Arlésienne

Song of the World

as Marinau the sailor

Lo sgarro

Rififi in Tokyo

as Van Hekken

Magnet of Doom

as Dieudonné Ferchaux

6.2

A King Without Distraction

1963

as le procureur du roi

7.8

Symphony for a Massacre

as Paoli

The Steppe

as Pére Christophore

Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece

as Father Alexandre

The Truth

as Maître Guérin

The Wreckers

as Marnez

Island Fisherman

as Shipowner Mével

Prisoner of the Volga

1959

as Ossip Semjonowitsch

4.3

Gorilla's Waltz

1959

as Berthomieu aka 'Le Vieux'

2.5

The Mask of the Gorilla

1958

as Colonel Berthomieu

5.9

Sinners of Paris

1958

as Léonce Pozzi, dit "Le Fondu"

No Escape

as Caillé

Burning Fuse

as Albatrasse

The Suspects

as Commissioner Perrache of the D.S.T.

Death in the Garden

1956

as Castin

6.4

Defend My Love

1956

as Verdisio

To Catch a Thief

1955

as Bertani

7.3

Diabolique

1955

as Police Inspector Alfred Fichet

7.9

A Missionary

1955

as Père Gauthier

Native Drums

1955

The Cheerful Squadron

as Hurluret

Maddalena

as Giovanni Lamberti

On Trial

as Wolf Andergast

The Wages of Fear

as Mr. Jo

Royal Affairs in Versailles

as Mr. de Vergennes

Malaire

Incantesimo tragico

as Bastiano

Il bivio

as Lubiani

The Last Sentence

as Judge Marco Valsetti

Cuori sul mare

1950

as Nostromo Norus

7.0

The Fighting Men

1950

as Don Salvatore Sparaino

4.0

In the Name of the Law

1949

as Massaro Turi Passalacqua

7.1

The Woman I Murdered

1948

as François Bachelin

Vertigine d'amore

1948

as Mugnaio Resplanton

Le Bateau à soupe

1947

as Le capitaine Hervé

6.0

La Cabane aux souvenirs

Woman of Evil

as Laurent

Gringalet

as Lucien Ravaut

Hanged Man's Farm

as François

L'Enquête du 58

as Bernard - le mécanicien

The Woman Who Dared

as Pierre Gauthier

The Roquevillards

as François Roquevillard

Le soleil a toujours raison

1943

as L'homme du mas

6.0

Haut le vent

1942

as François Ascarra

Promise to the Unknown One

1942

as Bernard Parker

Business Is Business

1942

as Isidore Lechat

6.5

The Black Diamond

1941

as François Mitry

The Wonderful Night

1940

as le fermier

5.5

Cristobal's Gold

1940

as Le Coronel - le chef de la police

Savage Brigade

1939

as Général Kalitjeff

Yamilé Under the Cedars

1939

as Rachid El Hame

Law of the North

as Dalrymple

S.O.S. Sahara

Southern Bar

as Captain Olivier

The West

1938

as Jean Cadière

Crossroads

1938

as Roger de Vétheuil

5.4

Legions of Honor

1938

as Captain Dabrau

The Woman at the End of the World

1938

as Durc, l'Officier Mécanicien

5.8

Rail Pirates

1938

as Henri Pierson

5.4

Troïka sur la piste blanche

1937

as Michel Steinberg

Abused Confidence

as Jacques Ferney

Southern Carrier

as Herlin

Social Police

as Salviati

Michel Strogoff

1936

7.0

Port Arthur

1936

as Commander Vassidloff

The Fear

as Robert Sylvain

The Seniors

as Henri Lormier

Jenny

1936

as Benoit

5.9

Assault

1936

as Alexandre Mérital

La Belle Équipe

1936

as Charles dit Charlot

7.4

The Flame

1936

as Victor Boussat

Les Bateliers de la Volga

1935

as Colonel Goreff

Flight Into Darkness

1935

as Le lieutenant Maury

5.8

King of the Camargue

1935

as Rampal

The Green Domino

1935

as Nebel, a sculptor

6.0

L'Impossible Aveu

1935

At the End of the World

1934

as Geroges Laudy

The Great Game

as Clement

Les Misérables

as Inspector Javert

Obsession

as Pierre

Gitanes

Wooden Crosses

as Caporal Breval

Case closed

In the Name of the Law

as Lancelot

Dainah the Mixed

as Michaux

Dance House

as Ramon

Faubourg Montmartre

as André Marco, dit Dédé

5.8

Rio's yellow house

1931

as King-Fu / Scalpa

Accused, Stand Up!

1930

as Henri Lapalle

6.3

L'Arlésienne

1930

as Gardian Mitifio

Chic

1930

as Fernand (François)

The Yellow Captain

In the Night

as L'ouvrier carrier

Waterloo

as Napoleon

An Ideal Woman

as Angel Call

Drei Tage auf Leben und Tod - Aus dem Logbuch der U.C.1

1929

as Der Steuermann

Le Passager

The Prey of the Wind

as Pierre Vignal

Apaches of Paris

Die weisse Sklavin

Feu!

as Lieutenant Frémiet

Mister Mustard's Millions

1926

as John Durand

Nitchevo

1926

The Flame

1926

A Night of Romance

1925

as Matteo Scaliuccio

The Awakening

Barocco

La Flambée des rêves

Heart of an Actress

Iceland Fisherman

as Yann

Tillers of the Soil

L'Autre aile

as Gaston Lager

Calvaire d'amour

The House of Mystery

as Henri Corradin

Tempêtes

as Raoul Mauduit

Phroso

1922

as Dimitri

The Child of the Carnival

1921

Miarka, la fille à l'ourse

1920

as Mario the game warden

Television (5)

30 millions d'amis

as Self

Cérémonie des César

as Self - President

Spécial cinéma

as Self

Sébastien and Mary-Morgane

1970

as Louis Maréchal

Cinépanorama

1956

as Self

8.0

Crew (4)

Movies (4)

Malaire

1952

Producer

5.2

Case closed

1932

Director

In the Night

Director

In the Night

Writer