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Peter van Eyck
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16 July 1911 - 15 July 1969
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Probably, the man named Goetz Van Eyck his real name did not seem very harmonious, and so one day the world learned about the actor Peter van Eyck. But the name change did not affect the degree of talent of the person who was born in Pomerania (Steinver) on July 16, 1913. He studied Goetz-Peter in the real gymnasium Heimsdorf, and then went to Munich, where he became a student of the music and dance school. They did not wait and debut roles in student performances. But at that time, Peter failed
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Probably, the man named Goetz Van Eyck his real name did not seem very harmonious, and so one day the world learned about the actor Peter van Eyck. But the name change did not affect the degree of talent of the person who was born in Pomerania (Steinver) on July 16, 1913.
He studied Goetz-Peter in the real gymnasium Heimsdorf, and then went to Munich, where he became a student of the music and dance school. They did not wait and debut roles in student performances. But at that time, Peter failed to get a full education: the coming to power of the Nazis forced him to leave Germany. For several years, Van Eyck changed countries and addresses until he finally anchored in the United States.
Before receiving American citizenship, Peter worked for his future: he thought out arrangements and lyrics for musical revues, acted as a theater director, worked as a pianist in a bar. To get the first small roles in the movie Van Eyck helped the same refugee as himself - director Billy Wilder.
After receiving American citizenship in 1943 and serving in the army, Peter Van Eyck was sent to his homeland as an American representative. Until 1948, his duties included control over the production of films, and in 1949 he played in Rudolf Ugert’s Hi, Girl. Fate decreed that Peter, with his characteristic “Aryan” appearance, was simply doomed to play the Nazi military. One of them was a character.
Five Tombs on the Way to Cairo Lieutenant Schwegler. Other heroes of Peter Van Eyck looked harsh and inflexible people with the manners of the Prussian Junker.
In the fifties, the actor's career was mainly associated with Europe: Peter played in the film "The Payment for Fear" (directed by Henri Georges Clouseau), "The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse" (directed by Fritz Lang). The actor did not sit still - an adventurer and cosmopolitan, Van Eyck appeared in Hollywood, then in Switzerland, then in Paris. In 1969, he played his last role as German General von Brock in John Gillermin’s war drama Remagen Bridge. Peter Van Eyck died on July 15, 1969 in Maennedorf, near Zurich. /