Full Name Gotz von Eick Name Peter Eyck Years active 1943–1969 | Occupation Actor Cause of death sepsis Role Actor | |
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Born 16 July 1911 Steinwehr, Pomerania, Germany Died July 15, 1969, Mannedorf, Switzerland Spouse Ruth Ford (m. 1940–1945), Inge von Voris (m. ?–1969) Children Claudia van Eyck, Shelley Scott, Kristina van Eyck Nominations German Film Award for Best Leading Actor Movies The Wages of Fear, The Thousand Eyes of D, The Spy Who Came in from th, The Bridge at Remagen, Five Graves to Cairo Similar People Vera Clouzot, Henri‑Georges Clouzot, Ruth Ford, Rolf Thiele, Artur Brauner | ||
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Peter van Eyck (born Götz von Eick; 16 July 1911 in Steinwehr, Pomerania, German Empire [now Kamienny Jaz, Poland] – 15 July 1969 in Männedorf near Zürich, Switzerland), was a German actor.
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- Biography
- Personal life
- Death
- Filmography
- References
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Biography
After graduating from high school he studied music. In 1931 he left Poland, living in Paris, London, Tunis, Algiers and Cuba, before settling in New York. He earned a living playing the piano in a bar, and wrote and composed for revues and cabarets. He then worked for Irving Berlin as a stage manager and production assistant, and for Orson Welles Mercury Theatre company as an assistant director.
Van Eyck went to Hollywood where he worked as a truck driver. He initially found radio work with the help of Billy Wilder, who later gave him small film roles. In 1943 he took US citizenship and was drafted into the army as a commissioned officer. At the end of the war he returned to Germany as a control officer for film and remained there until 1948 as director of the film section. In 1949 he appeared in his first German film Hallo, Fräulein!
He gained international recognition with a leading role in the 1953 film Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear) directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. He went to appear in episodes of several US TV series including The Adventures of Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In English-language films he was most often typecast as a Nazi or other unsympathetic type, while in Germany he was a popular leading man in a wider range of films, including several appearances in the Doctor Mabuse thriller series of the 1960s.
Personal life
Van Eyck was married to the American actress Ruth Ford for a short time in the 1940s. With his second wife, Inge von Voris, he had two daughters, Kristina, also an actor, and Claudia.
Death
He died at age 57 in 1969 from sepsis in Männedorf, Switzerland due to an untreated relatively small injury.