Peter van Eyck 7 pictures

Actor
With his whitish blond crew-cut, slow, menacing drawl and Germanic manner, Van Eyck was destined to be typecast as stereotypically scowling, arrogant Nazi officers. This was ironic, because being an avowed anti-fascist, he had left Germany in 1931 -- two years before Adolf Hitler came to power. The son of an aristocratic Prussian land owner, his ...

Born: July 16, 1911
Star sign: Cancer
Known for: The Wages of Fear (1953), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960), The River Line (1964)
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