Awards & Winners

Charles Vanel

Date of Birth 21-August-1892
Place of Birth Rennes
(Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany)
Nationality France
Also know as Charles-Marie Vanel, Charles-Marie Vanel, Charles-Marie Vanel
Profession Actor, Film director
Charles-Marie Vanel, known as Charles Vanel was a French actor and director. He made his screen debut in 1912, in Robert Péguy's Jim Crow, and is perhaps best remembered for his role as a desperate truck driver in Clouzot's acclaimed The Wages of Fear, a film that won both the Golden Bear and Palme d'Or in 1953. In Hitchcock's 1955 film, To Catch a Thief, he played a restaurateur who had served in the French Resistance with Cary Grant. Later in his career he would act alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo and Klaus Kinski. In his 77-year career he appeared in more than 200 films.

Awards by Charles Vanel

Check all the awards nominated and won by Charles Vanel.

1981


David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor
Honored for : Three Brothers

1953


Cannes Best Actor Award
Honored for : The Wages of Fear