Peter van Eyck
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Peter van Eyck, born Götz von Eick (16 July 1911, Steinwehr, Pomerania, Germany (now Kamienny Jaz, Poland) – 15 July 1969, Männedorf near Zürich, Switzerland), was a German-American actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter van Eyck, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: July 16, 1911
Place of Birth: Steinwehr, Pomerania, Germany [now Kamienny Jaz, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]
Known For
Rebel Flight to Cuba
Peter escapes a firing squad and leaves the island of San Quinto on a commercial flight to Bermuda. The plane is hijacked by a Nazi and San Quinto's Ex-General Cordobas who shoot pilot Pink and damage the landing gear of the plane.
Der Cornet
Adventure film based on a Rilke poem.
The Wages of Fear
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
Der Kommissar
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
The Black Chapel
1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.
Action in the North Atlantic
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
The Snorkel
On the Italian coast, writer Paul Decker has grown unhappy in his marriage and executes what appears to be a perfect murder of his wife. While Paul is believed to be writing a book in France, his stepdaughter, Candy, suspects him of murdering her mother, as well as her father years before. With the police unwilling to investigate any further, Candy sets out to confirm her suspicions and take Paul down herself.
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
Filmography
as Helmut Wurster (archive footage)
as Gen. Von Brock
as Herr Wegener
as Dr. Bernd Reboux
as Baron Frederick Von Hallstatt
as Priest
as Walter Green
as il colonnello Kerr
as Muller
as Ivar Kreuger
as Oscar Rubeck
as Kramer / Jack Haskins
as Peter von Kessner
as Hans-Dieter Mundt
as Don McGow
as Petchatkin
as Captain McPherson
as Maj. Bob Anders
as Der Reiher
as Günther Rohn
as Chef
as Major Bill Tern
as Peter
as Kramer
as Lt. Col. Ocker
as Dr. Peter Corrie
as Georg Droste
as Dr. Fred Calonder
as Robert Kessler
as Michel Georgenko
as Hauptmann Paul Langenau
as Bleck
as Henry B. Travers
as Dr. Hans Simon
as Count Almaszy
as Pink Roberti
as Robert Golder
as Ron Stevens
as Paul Claudius
as Gefängnisarzt Dr. Knittel
as Karl Amsel
as Graf von Almassy
as Alexandre
as Paul Decker
as Studienrat Dr. Torsten Agast
as Fribert
as Kommissar Léon Ferrier
as Cyril Gad
as John Lawrence
as Éric Fréminger
as Peter Simon
as Pédro Wassevitch
as SS Captain
as Dr. Van Anders / Col. Wilham Von Andre
as Andre Boucher
as Mönchschreiber
as Officer
as Franck Richter
as Thaddeus
as Eric Hartman
as Lt. Heinrich Heldman
as Dr. Celliers
as Mathias Valdès
as Fred
as Capt. Sergei "Petey" Petrochine
as Howard
as Bimba
as Jo
as German Officer
as Renato
as Peter von Rhoden
as FBI-Agent Bennister alias Steward Stephan Lund
as Paul König
as Capt. Granach - Young Nazi Officer
as Heinrich Schulz
as Hafner
as German Ensign (uncredited)
as Lt. Schwegler
as German Soldier (uncredited)
as Lt. Tonder