Pierre Vaneck
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Biography
Son of a Belgian officer, Pierre Vaneck passed his youth to Antwerp before continuing at 17 years, of the studies of medicine in Paris. Then it followed studies of dramatic art with the courses Rene Simon and the Theater Academy, the class of Henri Rollan. It earned its living while working in a saddler and the evening, it recited poems of François Villon in cabarets. It began on the boards in 1952 in "the three musketeers" with the role from Louis XIII. With the cinema, it found its first great role in film of Julien DuvivierJulien Duvivier
Julien Duvivier was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930-1960...
, "Marianne of my youth" in 1955.
Pierre Vaneck was first a man of the theatre and television. The general public knew Veneck especially for his television role as father of Fabien Cosma, as well as in many serials (spring tides, the Garonne…). Vaneck died on Sunday 31 January 2010 during a cardiac operation. He was married to Sophie Becker, daughter and sister of Jacques Becker
Jacques Becker
Jacques Becker was a French screenwriter and film director.Becker was born in Paris, in an upper class background. During the 1930s he worked as an assistant to director Jean Renoir during his peak period, which produced such cinematic masterpieces as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game...
and Jean Becker. His grandchildren, Aurélie and Thibaud Vaneck, are two actors featured in the televised series "Plus Belle la Vie" which plays on France 3 Chanel.
Movies
- 1954 : Huis clos by Jacqueline AudryJacqueline AudryJacqueline Audry was a French film director who started making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations. She was the first commercially successful woman director of post-war France....
- 1955 : Marianne de ma jeunesse by Julien DuvivierJulien DuvivierJulien Duvivier was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930-1960...
- 1956 : Si Paris nous était conté by Sacha GuitrySacha GuitryAlexandre-Pierre Georges Guitry was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the Boulevard theatre.- Biography :...
- 1956 : Celui qui doit mourir by Jules DassinJules DassinJulius "Jules" Dassin , was an American film director, with Jewish-Russian origins. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist in the McCarthy era, and subsequently moved to France where he revived his career.-Early life:...
- 1956 : Pardonnez nos offenses de Robert HosseinRobert HosseinRobert Hossein is a French film actor of Azeri origin, director and writer. He directed the 1982 adaption of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute...
- 1958 : Thérèse EtienneThérèse ÉtienneThérèse Étienne is a 1958 French-Italian drama film directed by Denys de La Patellière and starring James Robertson Justice, Françoise Arnoul and Pierre Vaneck. It was based on a novel by John Knittel...
by Denys de La PatellièreDenys de La PatellièreDenys de La Patellière is a French film director and scriptwriter.He was born in Nantes.-Filmography as director:* 1955 : Les Aristocrates with Pierre Fresnay... - 1958 : La moucharde with Dany CarrelDany Carrel-Selected filmography:* Dortoir des grandes * Porte des Lilas * Girls for the Summer * Mill of the Stone Women * Une souris chez les hommes * The Hands of Orlac * A Trip for Cindarella...
- 1958 : Une balle dans le canon by Charles GérardCharles GérardCharles Gérard is a French actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1957. In many fims he worked with director Claude Lelouch.-Selected filmography:- External links :...
and Michel DevilleMichel DevilleMichel Deville is a French film director and screenwriter.Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors... - 1959 : Merci Natercia by Pierre KastPierre KastPierre Kast was a French screenwriter and film and television director.Kast died from a heart attack on board an aircraft on 20 October 1984, aged 64.- Director :...
- 1960 : La Morte saison des amours by Pierre KastPierre KastPierre Kast was a French screenwriter and film and television director.Kast died from a heart attack on board an aircraft on 20 October 1984, aged 64.- Director :...
- 1961 : Les Amours célèbres by Michel BoisrondMichel BoisrondMichel Jacques Boisrond was a French film director and writer...
- 1961 : Un nommé La Rocca by Jean Becker
- 1963 : Vacances portugaises by Pierre KastPierre KastPierre Kast was a French screenwriter and film and television director.Kast died from a heart attack on board an aircraft on 20 October 1984, aged 64.- Director :...
- 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-LaraClaude Autant-LaraClaude Autant-Lara , was a French film director and later Member of the European Parliament .-Biography:...
- 1970 : L'Ile aux Coquelicots by Salvatore AdamoSalvatore AdamoSalvatore, Knight Adamo, simply known as Adamo is a Belgian – Italian composer and singer of ballads, mainly in French, but also in other languages such as German, Italian and Spanish. He had commercial success during the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, but...
- 1971 : Le Seuil du vide by Jean-François DavyJean-François DavyJean-François Davy is a French film producer, director, screenwriter and actor. He directed the 1978 film Surprise Sock, which starred Anna Karina.-External links:...
- 1971 : BiribiBiribiBiribi, or cavagnole, a French game of chance similar to Lotto, Lottery, played for low stakes, that prohibited by law in 1837. It was played on a board on which the numbers 1 to 70 are marked. The players put their stakes on the numbersthey wish to back...
by Daniel Moosmann - 1980 : Le Soleil en face by Pierre KastPierre KastPierre Kast was a French screenwriter and film and television director.Kast died from a heart attack on board an aircraft on 20 October 1984, aged 64.- Director :...
- 1980 : La légion saute sur Kolwezi by Raoul Coutard
- 1983 : ErendiraEréndiraEréndira is a 1983 Mexican drama film directed by Ruy Guerra. It was entered into the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the short story The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother by Gabriel García Márquez....
by Ruy GuerraRuy GuerraRuy Alexandre Guerra Coelho Pereira is a film director, screenwriter, film editor, and actor in Brazil. Guerra was born a Portuguese citizen in Lourenço Marques in Moçambique, when it was still a colony of Portugal.... - 1991 : Vent d'est by Robert EnricoRobert EnricoRobert Georgio Enrico was a French film director and scriptwriter.He was born in Liévin, Pas-de-Calais, in the north of France.-Filmography as director:* Fait d'hiver...
- 1995 : OthelloOthelloThe Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...
by Oliver ParkerOliver ParkerOliver Parker is an English film director.-Biography:Parker was born in London, the son of Jillian, Lady Parker, a writer and GP , and Sir Peter Parker, formerly Chief executive of British Rail... - 1996 : La Propriétaire by Ismail MerchantIsmail MerchantIsmail Merchant was an Indian-born film producer, best known for the results of his famously long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included director James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...
- 1999 : Là-bas, mon pays by Alexandre Arcady
- 1999 : FuriaFuria (film)Furia is a 1999 French romantic drama film directed by Alexandre Aja, who co-wrote screenplay with Grégory Levasseur, adapted from science fiction "Graffiti" by Julio Cortázar.-Cast:*Stanislas Merhar as Théo*Marion Cotillard as Elia...
by Alexandre AjaAlexandre AjaAlexandre Aja is a French film director who rose to international stardom for his 2003 horror film Haute Tension .-Personal life:... - 2006 : La Science des rêves by Michel GondryMichel GondryMichel Gondry is an Academy Award winning filmmaker, whose works include being a commercial director, music video director, and a screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. - Life and career :...
- 2008 : Deux jours à tuer by Jean Becker
TV Show
- La caméra explore le temps TV show by Stellio Lorenzi
- 1968 : SarnSarn- Fiction :*Sarn Ford, the stony ford across the Baranduin on the southern borders of the Shire *Admiral Sarn, a fictional character in the game Rebel Assault II*Precious Bane , a novel by Mary Webb...
by Claude SantelliClaude SantelliClaude Santelli was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1968 and 1996.-External links:... - 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 extraordinairesHistoires extraordinairesHistoires extraordinaires is a 1968 "omnibus" film comprising three segments...
TV show based on Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
stories - 1982 : Je tue il by Pierre Boutron
- 1984 : La MafiaLa MafiaLa Mafia is a four-time Grammy Award-winning musical group. It has its roots in the Northside neighborhood of Houston, Texas and has charted a course as a Latin music band.- History :...
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'AnnaClaude d'AnnaClaude d'Anna is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed 16 films since 1970. His film Salome was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1986 Cannes Film Festival...
- 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 GreenJulien GreenJulien Green , was an American writer, who authored several novels, including Léviathan and Each in His Own Darkness...
- 1953 : La Maison de la nuit by Thierry MaulnierThierry MaulnierThierry Maulnier was a French journalist, essayist, dramatist, and literary critic.-Before 1940:...
- 1953 : La Chair de l'orchidéeLa Chair de l'orchidéeLa Chair de l'orchidée is a 1975 film adaptation of the 1948 novel, The Flesh of the Orchid by mystery writer James Hadley Chase. The story was selected by French director Patrice Chéreau, already well-known for his stage direction, as the subject for his first film.The film stars Charlotte...
by James Hadley ChaseJames Hadley ChaseJames Hadley Chase is the best-known pseudonym of the British writer Rene Brabazon Raymond who also wrote under the names James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant, and Raymond Marshall. Chase is one of the best known thriller writers of all time... - 1954 : Pour le roi de Prusse by Maurice Bray
- 1954 : L'Ennemi by Julien GreenJulien GreenJulien Green , was an American writer, who authored several novels, including Léviathan and Each in His Own Darkness...
- 1955 : Le Bal des adieux by André Josset
- 1955 : L'Éventail de Lady Windermere by Oscar WildeOscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
- 1958 : La Paix du dimanche by John OsborneJohn OsborneJohn James Osborne was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of the Establishment. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre....
- 1959 : Les Possédés by Albert CamusAlbert CamusAlbert Camus was a French author, journalist, and key philosopher of the 20th century. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton.Camus was awarded the 1957...
- 1959 : Long voyage vers la nuit by Eugene O'NeillEugene O'NeillEugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish...
- 1960 : Jules CésarJulius Caesar (play)The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, also known simply as Julius Caesar, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the 44 BC conspiracy against...
by William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"... - 1961 : Les Violons parfois by Françoise SaganFrançoise SaganFrançoise Sagan – real name Françoise Quoirez – was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Hailed as "a charming little monster" by François Mauriac on the front page of Le Figaro, Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois...
- 1962 : L'AiglonL'AiglonL'Aiglon is a play in six acts by Edmond Rostand based on the life of Napoleon's son, Napoleon II of France, Duke of Reichstadt. The title comes from a nickname for Napoleon II, the French word for "eaglet" . The title role was created by Sarah Bernhardt in the play's premiere on 15 March 1900 at...
by Edmond RostandEdmond RostandEdmond Eugène Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century... - 1963 : La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu by Jean GiraudouxJean GiraudouxHippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy...
- 1963 : Le Cid by CorneillePierre CorneillePierre Corneille was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine...
- 1964 : LorenzaccioLorenzaccioLorenzaccio is a French play of the Romantic period written by Alfred de Musset in 1834, set in 16th-century Florence, and depicting Lorenzino de' Medici, who killed Florence's tyrant, Alessandro de' Medici, his cousin. Having engaged in debaucheries to gain the Duke's confidence, he loses the...
by Alfred de MussetAlfred de MussetAlfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d'un enfant du siècle from 1836.-Biography:Musset was born on 11 December 1810 in Paris... - 1964 : LutherLutherAs a German surname, Luther is derived from a Germanic personal name compounded from the words liut, "people", and heri, "army". As a rare English surname, it means "lute player" . Luther is also derived from the ancient Greek eleutherius, a liberator...
by John OsborneJohn OsborneJohn James Osborne was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of the Establishment. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre....
, directed Georges WilsonGeorges WilsonGeorges Wilson was a French film and television actor. He is the father of French actor Lambert Wilson.Wilson was born in Champigny-sur-Marne, Seine , to a French father and an Irish mother...
, Festival d'AvignonFestival d'AvignonThe Festival d'Avignon, or Avignon Festival, is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, it is the oldest extant festival in France and one of the world's greatest... - 1965 : La Calèche by Jean GionoJean GionoJean Giono was a French author who wrote works of fiction set in the Provence region of France.-First period:...
, - 1965 : HamletHamletThe Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
by William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
, Directed Georges WilsonGeorges WilsonGeorges Wilson was a French film and television actor. He is the father of French actor Lambert Wilson.Wilson was born in Champigny-sur-Marne, Seine , to a French father and an Irish mother...
, Festival d'AvignonFestival d'AvignonThe Festival d'Avignon, or Avignon Festival, is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, it is the oldest extant festival in France and one of the world's greatest... - 1967 : Le Duel by Anton ChekhovAnton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
- 1967 : Pygmalion by George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
- 1970 : Dom JuanDom JuanDom Juan or The Feast with the Statue is a French play by Molière, based on the legend of Don Juan. Molière's characters Dom Juan and Sganarelle are the French counterparts to the Spanish Don Juan and Catalinón, characters who would later become familiar to opera goers as Don Giovanni and Leporello...
by MolièreMolièreJean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature... - 1973 : La Reine de Césarée by Robert BrasillachRobert BrasillachRobert Brasillach was a French author and journalist. Brasillach is best known as the editor of Je suis partout, a nationalist newspaper which came to advocate various fascist movements and supported Jacques Doriot...
- 1977 : 'La Nuit de l'iguane by Tennessee WilliamsTennessee WilliamsThomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...
- 1980 : La musique adoucit les mœurs by Tom StoppardTom StoppardSir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, FRSL is a British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and...
- 1983 : Les Exilés by James JoyceJames JoyceJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...
- 1985 : Retour à Florence by Henry JamesHenry JamesHenry James, OM was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James....
- 1986 : La Salle d'attente
- 1987 : La Ronde by Arthur SchnitzlerArthur SchnitzlerDr. Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.- Biography :Arthur Schnitzler, son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter , was born in Praterstraße 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian...
- 1987 : Le SecretLe SecretLe Secret is an EP by French musician Alcest. It was released in May 2005 through Drakkar Productions. Unlike Alcest's previous release, all of the music on Le Secret is performed by Neige. The lyrics to the track "Élévation" come from a poem by Charles Baudelaire.-Track listing:...
by Henri BernsteinHenri BernsteinHenri-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein was a French playwright associated with Boulevard theatre.The far-right royalist Camelots du Roi youth organization of the Action française organized an anti-Semitic riot against a production of one of his plays in 1911... - 1989 : La Traversée de l'hiver by Yasmina RezaYasmina RezaYasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungarian.-Career:...
- 1990 : La Fonction by Jean-Marie Besset
- 1992 : Le Jugement dernier by Bernard-Henri LévyBernard-Henri LévyBernard-Henri Lévy is a French public intellectual, philosopher and journalist. Often referred to today, in France, simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the "Nouveaux Philosophes" movement in 1976.-Early life:...
- 1993 : Passions secrètes by Jacques-Pierre AmetteJacques-Pierre AmetteJacques-Pierre Amette is a French writer. In 2003 his novel Brecht's Mistress won the Prix Goncourt...
- 1994 : « Art » by Yasmina RezaYasmina RezaYasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungarian.-Career:...
- 1996 : La Cour des comédiens by Antoine VitezAntoine VitezAntoine Vitez was a French actor, director, and poet.He was born in Paris, France and became an actor at the age of 19. He was director of the Théâtre national de Chaillot for seven years before being named to head the Comedie Francaise, a French theater company.-References:...
- 1999 : Copenhague by Michael FraynMichael FraynMichael J. Frayn is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy...
- 2002 : HysteriaHysteriaHysteria, in its colloquial use, describes unmanageable emotional excesses. People who are "hysterical" often lose self-control due to an overwhelming fear that may be caused by multiple events in one's past that involved some sort of severe conflict; the fear can be centered on a body part, or,...
by Terry JohnsonTerry Johnson (dramatist)Terry Johnson is a British dramatist and director working for stage, television and film. He is a Literary Associate at the Royal Court Theatre. At The Court he directed Dumb Show by Joe Penhall and opened his play Piano/Forte... - 2003 : Déjeuner chez Wittgenstein by Thomas BernhardThomas BernhardThomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet. Bernhard, whose body of work has been called "the most significant literary achievement since World War II," is widely considered to be one of the most important German-speaking authors of the postwar era.- Life :Thomas Bernhard was...
- 2006 : Opus Cœur by Israël HorovitzIsrael HorovitzIsrael Horovitz is an American playwright and screenwriter.-Theatre career:An American dramatist, Horovitz has written more than 70 produced plays, many of which have been translated and performed in more than 30 languages worldwide . The 70/70 Horovitz Project was created by NYC Barefoot Theatre...
- 2008 : Rock'N'Roll by Tom StoppardTom StoppardSir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, FRSL is a British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and...
- 2009 : A.D.A. L'Argent des Autres by Jerry SternerJerry SternerJerry Sterner was an American businessman and playwright, best known for the play Other People's Money.Born in the Bronx, he sold tokens on the night shift where he wrote several plays. In 1966 he married Jean Sterner...