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Charles Vanel

1892 - 1989

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Charles-Marie Vanel (21 August 1892 – 15 April 1989) was a French actor and director. During his 65-year film career, which began in 1923, he appeared in more than 200 films and worked with many prominent directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Jacques Feyder, and Henri-Georges Clouzot. He is perhaps best remembered for his role as a desperate truck driver in Clouzot's The Wages of Fear for which he received a Special Mention at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Vanel is the 1,668th most popular actor (up from 1,746th in 2019), the 2,379th most popular biography from France (up from 2,567th in 2019) and the 115th most popular French Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Charles Vanel ranks 1,668 out of 13,578. Before him are Vakhtang Kikabidze, Maria Bello, Ned Beatty, Katey Sagal, Karl Urban, and Pierre Clémenti. After him are Jaclyn Smith, Laura Harring, Rami Malek, Chris Pine, Martin Freeman, and Alan Hale Jr..

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Among people born in 1892, Charles Vanel ranks 104. Before him are Herman Potočnik, Agnes Smedley, Ivan Šubašić, Joseph Szigeti, Karl Lennart Oesch, and Peljidiin Genden. After him are Richard Aldington, Ludwig Crüwell, Chen Gongbo, Branislaw Tarashkyevich, Reiner Stahel, and Liu Bocheng. Among people deceased in 1989, Charles Vanel ranks 88. Before him are Arseny Tarkovsky, Hibari Misora, Mihály Lantos, Kateb Yacine, Franz Binder, and Sergei Sobolev. After him are Vasile Milea, Carlos Puebla, Albert Bormann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pérez Prado, and Antonia Brico.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Vanel ranks 2,379 out of 6,770. Before him are François Habeneck (1781), Émile Boutroux (1845), Francis I, Duke of Brittany (1414), Édouard Séguin (1812), Jean Behra (1921), and Pierre Clémenti (1942). After him are Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons (1635), Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres (1840), Jacques Copeau (1879), Lucile Desmoulins (1770), William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (935), and Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy (1571).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Charles Vanel ranks 115. Before him are Mathieu Kassovitz (1967), Jacques Charrier (1936), Simone Simon (1911), Louis Jouvet (1887), Micheline Presle (1922), and Pierre Clémenti (1942). After him are Jean Delannoy (1908), Guillaume Canet (1973), Brigitte Lahaie (1955), Aurore Clément (1945), Renée Simonot (1911), and François Berléand (1952).

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