Helmut Dantine

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1918-10-07 (64 years old)

Deathday

1982-05-02

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Helmut Dantine

Biography

Helmut Dantine was an Austrian-American actor who often played Nazis in thriller films of the 1940s. His best-known performances are perhaps the German pilot in Mrs. Miniver, and the desperate refugee in Casablanca, who tries gambling to obtain travel visa money for himself and his wife. As his acting career waned, he turned to producing. Dantine enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles. His relatives thought he would go into business, but he became interested in theater. He began his U.S. acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse, while running two gas stations in order to pay his expenses. Dantine was spotted by a talent scout f...

Acting

1943

Casablanca

as Jan Brandel (uncredited)

1942

Mrs. Miniver

as German Flyer

1942

To Be or Not to Be

as Co-Pilot (uncredited)

1965

Operation Crossbow

as General Linz

1957

The Story of Mankind

as Marc Antony

1947

Whispering City

as Michel Lacoste

1946

Shadow of a Woman

as Dr. Eric Ryder

1953

Call Me Madam

as Prince Hugo

1943

Northern Pursuit

as Colonel Hugo von Keller

1943

Edge of Darkness

as Captain Koenig

1954

Stranger from Venus

as The Stranger

1945

Escape in the Desert

as Capt. Becker

1945

Hotel Berlin

as Martin Richter

1969

The File on Devlin

as Hans Raedler

1958

Fraulein

as Lt. Hugo von Metzler

1943

Watch on the Rhine

as Young Man

1975

1942

1958

Tempest

as Shvabrin

1940

Escape

as Porter (uncredited)

1956

War and Peace

as Dolokhov

1953

Guerrilla Girl

as Demetri Alexander

1956

Alexander the Great

as Nectenabus

1979

The Fifth Musketeer

as Spanish Ambassador

1975

The Wilby Conspiracy

as Prosecuting Counsel

1957

1943

Mission to Moscow

as Maj. Kamenev

Production

1974

1975

The Killer Elite

as Executive Producer

1958

Thundering Jets

as Director

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