Peter van Eyck: Peter van Eyck. Actor: The Longest Day. 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 father had intended him to embark on...
Known For: The Longest Day (Lt. Col. Ocker(as Peter Van Eyck)), The Wages of Fear (Bimba(as Peter Van Eyck)), The Bridge at Remagen (Gen. Von Brock(as Peter Van Eyck)), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Hans-Dieter Mundt(as Peter Van Eyck))