By Vlad Zakh · July 31, 2026
Peter van Eyck built a distinguished career across Hollywood and European cinema and was frequently cast as an officer or agent in acclaimed wartime and espionage thrillers. The Wages of Fear drives nitroglycerine trucks across South American roads, The Longest Day shows D-Day from Allied and German sides, Attack sparks a mutiny against an incompetent captain, and The Desert Fox follows Rommel’s disillusion with Hitler. Action in the North Atlantic and The Moon Is Down round out the list.
01 An all-star, multi-perspective account of the D-Day invasion, told from both sides of the beach.
Directed by Ken Annakin & Bernhard Wicki · 2h 58m · Rated PG
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02 Peter van Eyck features in this war film where a cowardly, incompetent infantry captain's failures during the Second World War provoke a mutiny among his men.
Directed by Robert Aldrich · 1h 47m · Rated NR
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03 Four desperate men agree to drive trucks of unstable nitroglycerin across treacherous South American terrain.
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot · 2h 34m · Rated PG-13
Won 1 BAFTA Award6 wins & 1 nomination total
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04 Peter van Eyck features in this biopic of the celebrated German field marshal, who grows disillusioned with Hitler's regime as the war turns against him.
Directed by Henry Hathaway · 1h 28m · Rated NR
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05 Merchant seamen battle German U-boats to keep vital supply lines open across the Atlantic.
Directed by Lloyd Bacon · 2h 06m
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06 Peter van Eyck appears in this wartime drama where the resistance of a small occupied town tests the resolve of both its citizens and their conflicted Nazi commander.
Directed by Irving Pichel · 1h 30m
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