Peter Van Eyck Filmography

Born:: July 16, 1913 in Steinwehr, Germany
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Gotz von Eick
Biography:: Trained as a musician, Peter Van Eyck fled his native Germany when Hitler assumed power in 1933. Van Eyck secured work in the U.S. as a musical arranger for some of the top names in the business. Through the kindness of fellow German expatriate Billy Wilder, Van Eyck was able to get work as a...Read More

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The Bridge at Remagen

Actors: George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: This bleak World War II action drama, directed by John Guillermin, concerns the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen -- the last remaining span across the Rhine into Germany during the final days of the war in 1945. German General von Brock (Peter Van Eyck) is ordered to blow up the bridge rather than let Read More

1969
Code Name Red Roses

Synopsis: James Daly plays an American special operative who goes behind enemy lines during WW II. His mission: sabotage. Pier Angeli, Michael Wilding and Peter Van Eyck number among Daly's possible friends and foes. It's familiar territory, but suspenseful. We prefer the film's original title: Red Roses Read More

1969
Shalako

Actors: Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Peter Van Eyck, Stephen Boyd, Honor Blackman

Synopsis: In this western adventure, Shalako (Sean Connery) leads a hunting expedition in the wilds of New Mexico. There they run across an Apache camp where the Countess Irina (Brigitte Bardot) is being held hostage. When the Indians retaliate by destroying the camp of the European aristocrats, Shalako Read More

1968
Heidi

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: Made-for-television adaptation of Johanna Spyri's classic children's tale about an orphaned girl who goes to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

1968
Assignment to Kill

Actors: Patrick O'Neal, Joan Hackett, John Gielgud, Herbert Lom, Eric Portman

Synopsis: Insurance investigator Richard Cutting (Patrick O'Neal) is summoned to look into the sinking of some ships owned by wealthy shipping-magnate Curt Valayan (John Gielgud). Traveling to Switzerland, he interviews the owner and finds that his henchmen Matt (Herbert Lom) and the Big Man (Leon Greene) Read More

1968
Tuvia Vesheva Benotav

Synopsis: This uneven and humorless drama is taken from the writings of Sholom Aleichem. Unfortunately, this movie version falls short of the tragic comedy presented in the original text. Tovie is a poor milkman who must work hard to support his wife and seven daughters. One by one, the young women leave Read More

1968
L'Homme Qui Valait des Milliards

Actors: Frederick Stafford, Raymond Pellegrin, Peter Van Eyck, Anny Duperey

Synopsis: A U.S. Treasury Department agent is sent to Morocco to find a fortune in counterfeit money hidden by the Nazis during World War II. The agent escapes from prison with the only man who knows the location of the bogus bills. The duo is shadowed by a group of former Nazi soldiers who hope they will Read More

9/1/67
Seduction by the Sea

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, a harried man abandons his wife in favor of the quiet life on a remote island in the Adriatic Sea. His mother is devastated and hires a beautiful private detective to track him down and bring him back. Later the son and the investigator fall in love and, against the wishes Read More

1967
High Season for Spies

1967
Requiem Per un Agente Segreto

Synopsis: In this James Bond knock-off from the 1960s, a veteran US Secret Service agent must thwart the covert conspiracy's of an enemy spy network that threatens the world's safety. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

10/15/66
Guerre Secrete

Actors: Bourvil, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Mario Adorf, Vittorio Gassman, Annie Girardot, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: La Guerre Secrete is divided into four separate vignettes, each scene representing a day in the life of international espionage agents. Stories involve a secret agent (Vittorio Gassman) who goes undercover as a kidnapper, an attempt to impede a Russian attack on two submarines, and an undercover Read More

6/23/65
Duell Vor Sonnenuntergang

1965
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

Actors: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker, George Voskovec

Synopsis: Based on the novel by John Le Carre, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold stars Richard Burton as a dispirited, end-of-tether British secret agent. He comes in from "the cold" (meaning he is pulled out of field operations) to act as a undercover man behind the Iron Curtain. To make his staged Read More

1965
I Misteri Della Giungla Nera

Synopsis: A British officer's daughter is kidnapped by an island cult near India. Fifteen years later, he returns with an expedition to find her. Meanwhile, a snake hunter who has fallen in love with the girl is captured by the cult and ordered to kill the officer. But he and the officer team up, defeat the Read More

12/27/64
Dr. Mabuse's Rays of Death

Synopsis: This is the final entry in the Dr. Mabuse films a bad doctor wants to blow up Earth with a death ray and a giant concave mirror. He is thwarted by the brave hero. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1964
Station Six-Sahara

Actors: Carroll Baker, Peter Van Eyck, Ian Bannen, Denholm Elliott, Hansjörg Felmy

Synopsis: American audiences were disappointed when the nude scenes featuring sexy Baby Doll (1956) star Carroll Baker were excised from this potboiler for its exhibition on U.S. shores. At an isolated oil pumping station deep in the African desert, workers Kramer (Peter Van Eyck), Fletcher (Ian Bannen) Read More

1964
Ein Alibi zerbricht

Synopsis: A man insists that he was framed for a hit-and-run driving accident. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1964
No Time for Ecstasy

Synopsis: In this war drama set during the 1936 Spanish Civil War, a Ukrainian idealist enlists in the International Brigade and soon after meets and falls instantly in love with a youthful American war correspondent. When the young soldier gets to the front, he sees his comrade tortured and disfigured by Read More

1963
Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse

Synopsis: Fritz Lang had washed his hands of the Dr. Mabuse series with 1960's 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse. Thus, the directorial reins of Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard (Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse) were in the capable, if not inspired, hands of Paul May. Declared legally dead, the evil, megalomaniac Mabuse Read More

1963
Das Grosse Liebesspiel

Actors: Thomas Fritsch, Lilli Palmer, Nadja Tiller, Daliah Lavi, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Alexandra Stewart, Martin Held

Synopsis: This overdone German film relies on a repetitive plot centered around bedroom antics worthy of daytime dramas. A call girl (Hildegard Knef) teaches the "ways of love" to a boy (Thomas Fritsch). The boy uses the knowledge to seduce the young wife (Alexandra Stewart) of his professor (Martin Held). Read More

1963
The Riverline

Synopsis: In this war drama set during WW II, French Resistance leaders help guide a group of downed pilots to safety. Later a British agent is accused of treason. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1963
Kennwort: Reiher

Actors: Peter Van Eyck, Marie Versini, Walter Rilia, Fritz Wepper

Synopsis: William C. Barton (Peter Van Eyck) is an Allied pilot who is shot down over Belgium during World War II. With the country crawling with Nazis, heroic resistance fighters try to smuggle William and some escaped prisoners of war into Spain, but when he is seen writing a letter with a German address Read More

1963
Indecent

Synopsis: In this mystery, a German reporter looks into the death of a nightclub singer. His investigations reveal more than murder when he discovers a white slave ring operating between Marseilles and Tangeiers. More trouble ensues when he falls in love with one of the intended slaves. This inspires him to Read More

1962
The Black Chapel

1962
The Brain

Synopsis: This third film version of the Curt Siodmak scare piece Donovan's Brain stars Peter Van Eyck as an overly dedicated scientist. When a powerful and ruthless financier dies in a plane crash, Van Eyck keeps the tycoon's brain alive in his laboratory. Gradually, the brain takes over the doctor's mind Read More

1962
The Devil's Agent

Synopsis: The Devil's Agent is Peter Van Eyck in this economical espionager. A Viennese wine merchant, Van Eyck becomes the unwilling dupe for the Russians. In retaliation, he offers to become a double agent for the United States. The better-than-average cast includes Macdonald Carey, Christopher Lee Read More

1962
The Longest Day

Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Richard Todd

Synopsis: The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck. Whenever possible, the original locations were utilized, and an all-star international cast impersonates the people involved, from high-ranking officials to ordinary GIs. Each Read More

1962
Legge Di Guerra

5/9/61
Blind Justice

1961
Unter Ausschluss Der Oeffentlichkeit

1961
The Law of War

Synopsis: When a German outpost is devastated in World War II, a Nazi commandant holds 30 innocent people hostage to get the saboteur to come forward. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1961
The World in My Pocket

Actors: Nadja Tiller, Rod Steiger, Peter Van Eyck, Jean Servais, Ian Bannen

Synopsis: While this effective film may ostensibly be a thriller about the robbery of an armored vehicle, considerable black comedy ensnares the action in many places. Ginny (Nadja Tiller) is an enigmatic German woman cons a gang of crooks into robbing an armored car bound for France containing a US Army Read More

1961
The Whole Truth

1961
La Fête Espagnole

Actors: Peter Van Eyck, Daliah Lavi, Roland Le Saffre

Synopsis: La Fête Espagnole is an ironic title referring to the Spanish Civil War, the setting for this interesting 1930s' drama about romance, politics, and the inhuman caprices of war. Georgenko (Peter van Eyck) is a part of a volunteer brigade going into Spain to fight the fascist Franco and his army. Read More

1961
The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

Actors: Gert Fröbe

Synopsis: Back in Germany for the first time since 1933, director Fritz Lang returned to the screen character that brought him enormous success in his pre-Hollywood years. The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse is not so much a sequel as an extension of Lang's early Dr. Mabuse (1922) and Testament of Dr. Mabuse. Read More

1960
Foxhole in Cairo

Actors: James Robertson Justice, Adrian Hoven, Niall MacGinnis, Peter Van Eyck, Robert Urquhart, Michael Caine

Synopsis: Albert Lieven plays German general Erwin Rommel in this British war drama set in Libya and Egypt. A spy working on behalf of Rommel slips behind British lines and swipes "valuable" battle plans. Actually the information is false, planted by counterintelligence in hopes of misleading the "desert Read More

1960
The Deathray Mirror of Dr. Mabuse

1960
Labyrinth

Actors: Nadja Tiller, Amedeo Nazzari

Synopsis: Labyrinth by director Rolf Thiele is aptly titled, since viewers may find the story itself labyrinthian, in that it is hard to figure out where it is going. The setting is a mental institution in Switzerland with a caseload of inmates battling alcoholism with varying degrees of success or failure. Read More

6/23/59
R P Z Appelle Berlin

Actors: Peter Van Eyck, Dawn Addams, Franco Fabrizi, Gino Cervi

1959
Verbrechen nach Schulschluss

Synopsis: In this drama, a brave young man tries to save an abused coal-yard dog. It was his teacher who suggested he save the cur. Unfortunately, while climbing the fence to the yard, the youth is caught and accused of stealing. His teacher refuses to admit his part and even the poor boy's parents believe Read More

1959
Abschied von den Wolken

Actors: Sonja Ziemann, Peter Van Eyck, Christian Wolff

Synopsis: This is an unexceptional story of an attempted hijacking of a Latin American plane bound for Madrid. As the drama winds its way through the passengers and crew of the ill-fated aircraft, several subplots spring up like weeds after a shower. There is a love triangle between the pilot, a flight Read More

1959
Der Rest ist Schweigen

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Peter Van Eyck, Ingrid Andree, Adelheid Seeck

Synopsis: The Rest Is Silence, a German-made attempt to update Shakespeare, is one of the best and least self-conscious of this minor genre. As indicated by the title, the film's script is a "mufti" version of Hamlet, with young Hardy Kruger trying to prove that his uncle (Peter van Eyck) has killed his Read More

1959
Everybody Wants to Kill Me

Synopsis: Francois Perier, Peter vanEyck, and Anouk Aimee star in this tense tale of five highly skilled thieves who all pool their resources in hopes of pulling off the perfect heist. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1958
The Snorkel

Actors: Peter Van Eyck, Mandy Miller, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: The Snorkel is one of those low-key British suspensers that seemed to pop up every fifteen minutes on TV back in the sixties. Peter Van Eyck plays Jacques Duval, who devises a fiendishly clever method of murdering his wife. Doping her up with sleeping tablets, Duval places his wife in a sealed Read More

1958
Schmutziger Engel

1958
Das Mädchen Rosemarie

Actors: Nadja Tiller, Peter Van Eyck, Carl Raddatz, Gert Fröbe, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: Originally Das Madchen Rosemarie, this German "musical tragedy" has a lot in common with the Bertold Brecht/Kurt Weill theatrical pieces The Threepenny Opera and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahoganny; in fact, the music heard throughout was taken from Weill's backlog. Austrian beauty contest Read More

1958
Rommel Ruft Kairo

1958
Retour de Manivelle

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Daniel Gélin, Peter Van Eyck, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: Retour de Manivelle (The Turn of the Handle) is an acceptable French approximation of Hollywood "film noir" techniques. Artist Peter Van Eyck rescues Daniel Gelin from drowning, takes the man home, and makes him his chauffeur. Gelin does his job well, even managing to fend off the romantic Read More

9/18/57
Tous Peuvent Me Tuer

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Eleonora Rossi-Drago, François Perier, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: Tous Peuvent Me Tuer (Anyone Can Kill Me) is one of the many "perfect crime" melodramas which glutted the French film industry in the late '50s. Five crooks participate in a holdup, hide the money, then confess to a lesser crime so that they will receive a bare-minimum prison sentence. Once behind Read More

9/5/57
Le Feu Aux Poudres

Actors: Raymond Pellegrin, Françoise Fabian, Peter Van Eyck, Marthe Mercadier

Synopsis: The literal translation of Le Feu aux Poudres is The Burning Fuse. The title itself is symbolic, referring to the fact that time is running out for its protagonist, undercover policeman Raymond Pellegrin. Infiltrating a gang of gunrunners, Pellegrin makes a tactical error by falling in love with Read More

2/27/57
Dr. Crippen Lebt

1957
Fric Frac En Dentelles

Actors: Anne Vernon, Peter Van Eyck, Jo Warfield

1957
Der Glaeserne Turm

Synopsis: All the money in the world cannot provide the security the rich industrialist in this drama seems to crave. Although wealthy and powerful, the man is terribly afraid of losing his beauteous wife to another. His fears rule his private life; to keep her safe, the man begins holding her prisoner. Read More

1957
Run for the Sun

Actors: Richard Widmark, Trevor Howard, Jane Greer, Peter Van Eyck, Carlos Henning

Synopsis: Filmed in Mexico, Run for the Sun was the second official remake of Richard Connell's classic suspense yarn The Most Dangerous Game. This time, Trevor Howard stars as Browne, the wealthy hermit who thrives on hunting down human beings like wild animals. As a means of updating the story, Howard is Read More

1956
The Rawhide Years

Actors: Tony Curtis, Colleen Miller, Arthur Kennedy

Synopsis: In this western, an adventurous gambler goes on the lam when he is falsely accused of a riverboat killing. He hides out for three years before returning to prove his innocence, and to find the girl he loves. Unfortunately, the girl is involved with a gambler, the ringleader of the gang responsible Read More

1956
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Safe Conduct

Synopsis: American reporter Mary Prescott (Claire Trevor) has been given a safe conduct pass by the Iron Curtain dictator whom she has interviewed. En route to West Germany, Mary is approached by East German soccer player Jan Gubak (Jacques Bergerac), who tells her a sob story about a sick sister and an Read More

1956
Attack

Actors: Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, Robert Strauss, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: It is easy to see why the US Army refused to cooperate in the production of Attack. Based on the Norman Brooks play The Fragile Fox, this searing war film is a powerful indictment against a military system which protects even its most incompetent of officers. Eddie Albert plays a posturing but Read More

1956
Mr. Arkadin

Actors: Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave, Jack Watling, Patricia Medina, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Arden, Mischa Auer

Synopsis: Also known as Mr. Arkadin, this flawed late effort by director Orson Welles recalls the structure of Citizen Kane, centering around an investigation into the past of a powerful millionaire. This time around, however, the millionaire is very much alive; in fact, it is Gregory Arkadin (Welles) Read More

1955
Cornet

1955
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle

Actors: Gordon Scott, Vera Miles, Peter Van Eyck, Jack Elam, Charles Fredericks

Synopsis: By 1955, the original Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller, had long since retired, and RKO Pictures tried several replacements. Tarzan's Hidden Jungle was the first of six films starring Gordon Scott as the ape man. It also was the last of 12 Tarzan pictures released by RKO Studios, and other studios Read More

1955
Sophie Et Le Crime

Actors: Marina Vlady, Peter Van Eyck, Jean Gaven

1955
A Bullet for Joey

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, George Raft, Audrey Totter, George Dolenz, Peter Hanson

Synopsis: A communist spy plots the abduction of an important American atomic scientist in this espionage drama. To do his evil deed, he coerces a notorious gangster to do the kidnapping. Meanwhile a G-man is hot on the spy's trail and is determined to protect the endangered scientist. Unfortunately, the Read More

1955
Jump into Hell

Synopsis: Jump into Hell is one of the first films to deal with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam or, as it was still known in 1955, French IndoChina. The 56-day battle of Dien Ben Phu is herein reenacted, with several French volunteers emerging as the heroes. Arriving in IndoChina by parachute, Captain Guy Read More

1955
Le Grand Jeu

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Jean Pascal, Raymond Pellegrin, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love. It turns out that she is an amnesiac. With her, the attorney tries to re-spark his old relationship. Read More

4/12/54
Night People

Actors: Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk, Rita Gam, Walter Abel

Synopsis: "You've never SEEN Gregory Peck until you've seen him in CINEMASCOPE." So read the publicity hype for 20th Century-Fox's Night People. Actually, Peck is his usual solid, stoic self as Col. Van Dyke, a CIA officer stationed in West Berlin. When an American soldier is kidnapped by the Soviets in the Read More

1954
Flesh and Desire

Actors: Viviane Romance, Rossano Brazzi

Synopsis: La Chair et le Diable (The Devil and the Pulpit) is a serviceable vehicle for the magnificent Vivienne Romance. The star plays the sensuous wife of farm-owner Peter Van Eyck, who has recently hired itinerant laborer Rossano Brazzi. Sure enough, Vivienne and Brazzi inaugurate a torrid affair, with Read More

1954
Alerte au sud

Actors: Jean Pascal, Gianna Maria Canale, Peter Van Eyck, Lia Amanda

Synopsis: Though his services as a director were no longer required in the 1950s, Erich Von Stroheim kept busy as an actor, especially in the French film industry. Alerte au Sud (Alert in the South) top-bills Von Stroheim as a demented German general who refuses to concede that WW II is over and who Read More

12/25/53
The Wages of Fear

Actors: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter Van Eyck, William Tubbs, Véra Clouzot

Synopsis: Together with Diabolique, The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur) earned Henri-Georges Clouzot the reputation as a "French Hitchcock." In truth, Clouzot's ability to sustain suspense may have even exceeded Hitchcock's; when originally released, Wages ran 155 tension-filled minutes. Based on the Read More

4/22/53
Sailor of the King

Actors: Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller, Jeffrey Hunter, Bernard Lee, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: Jeffrey Hunter plays a young British sailor, the out-of-wedlock son of a high-ranking naval officer (Michael Rennie). Hunter's ship is torpedoed, leaving him stranded on a German-occupied island. Armed with only a rifle, Hunter is able to shoot at a German cruiser docked for repairs, and to slow Read More

1953
Au Coeur De La Casbah

Actors: Viviane Romance, Claude Laydu, Peter Van Eyck

1951
The Desert Fox

Actors: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler, Everett Sloane

Synopsis: The Desert Fox is a superb filmed biography of German general Erwin Rommel, concentrating on the period between his retreat from North Africa and his government-decreed death. A brilliant tactician, Rommel earns the respect not only of his own men but of the enemy. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler (Luther Adler Read More

1951
Epilog

1950
The Impostor

Actors: Jean Gabin, Richard Whorf, Ellen Drew, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: The Impostor is one of French film favorite Jean Gabin's two wartime Hollywood vehicles. Adapted by Stephen Longstreet and Marc Connelly from a screenplay by director Julien Duvivier, the story concerns a condemned murderer named Clement (Jean Gabin), who is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the