Peter Van Eyck details
Roles: Actor
Date of Birth: July 16, 1913 (died July 15, 1969)
Active Years: 1943-1969
Filmography: The Wages of Fear (1953), The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965), The Longest Day (1962), Der Rest ist Schweigen (1959), Das Mädchen Rosemarie (1958), The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960), The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
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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 radio actor, and in 1942 was cast in his first film, The Moon Is Down. While his name and Teutonic bearing typecast Van Eyck as a Nazi in most of his wartime films, he was equally effective in sympathetic roles. Closing out his Hollywood career in 1951, Peter Van Eyck spent his last two decades as a popular leading man in European films. by Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
