Peter van Eyck

Peter van Eyck
Trailer for Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
Born	Götz von Eick (1911-07-16)16 July 1911 Steinwehr, Pomerania, German Empire (present-day Kamienny Jaz, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
Died	15 July 1969(1969-07-15) (aged 57) Männedorf, near Zürich, Switzerland
Citizenship	West Germany United States (after 1943)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1943–1969
Spouse(s)	Ruth Ford (m. 1940; div. 194?) Inge von Voris (m. 19??)
Children	3

Peter van Eyck (born Götz Eick; 16 July 1911 – 15 July 1969) was a German-American film and television actor. Born in Prussian Pomerania, he moved to the United States in the 1930s and established a career as a character actor. After World War II, he returned to his native country and became a star of West German cinema.

Internationally, his best known roles included The Wages of Fear (1953), Mr. Arkadin (1955), The Longest Day (1962), The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965), and the 1960s Dr. Mabuse films. He was twice nominated for the German Film Award for Best Actor, for Blind Justice (1961) and for The River Line (1964).