Helmut Dantine

Helmut Dantine

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 from Warner Bros, who signed him to a contract. Dantine had uncredited parts in International Squadron and To Be or Not to Be, before his first credited role in MGM's Mrs. Miniver, playing a downed German pilot captured by the title character (played by Greer Garson). It was a huge hit, and Dantine received much positive attention from being in the film. In August 1942, Warners signed him to a new acting contract. The studio kept him busy with roles in the World War II films, The Pied Piper, Desperate Journey fighting Errol Flynn, and The Navy Comes Through. He had a sympathetic role in Casablanca, as a young refugee trying and failing to earn money via gambling. Warners begin to give Dantine more sizeable roles in their "A" films, Watch on the Rhine, Edge of Darkness, playing a Nazi officer, again fighting Errol Flynn, and Mission to Moscow, playing a sympathetic Russian. Dantine's good looks caused him to receive a lot of fan mail and, in the words of one profile, "the studio began to realize it had something else besides a Hollywood Hitlerite on its hands". Warners announced they had bought Night Action by Norman Krasna as a vehicle for Dantine, but the film appears not to have been made. Instead, he had a large role playing the villain in Northern Pursuit (1943), as a Nazi running loose in northern Canada fighting Errol Flynn again. Warner Bros. later cast him in a sympathetic role in Passage to Marseille, and he was one of several stars in Hollywood Canteen. In 1944, exhibitors voting for "Stars of Tomorrow", picked Dantine at number 10. Warners gave him a sympathetic lead in Hotel Berlin, as the leader of the German underground. He was once again a Nazi on-the-run in Escape in the Desert, a remake of The Petrified Forest. His last role for Warners was in the film noir, Shadow of a Woman. He then left the studio. As his acting career wound down, he became a vice-president of Hollywood mogul Joseph Schenck's company, Schenck Enterprises, in 1959; Schenck was his wife's uncle. He later went to work as producer with Robert L. Lippert Productions and then as president of Hand Enterprises Inc. Among Dantine's later screen appearances, there were three films for which he was the executive producer: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and The Killer Elite, both directed by Sam Peckinpah, and The Wilby Conspiracy. He was also in The Fifth Musketeer and Tarzan the Apeman. On 2 May 1982, Helmut Dantine died in Beverly Hills from a heart attack at age 63. According to one obituary, "He specialized in portrayals of Nazis, sometimes as the handsome but icy SS sadist battling Allied heroes, sometimes as a sympathetic German soldier forced, against his better judgment, to fight".

  • Isihloko: Helmut Dantine
  • Ukuthandwa: 1.939
  • Yaziwa ngokuba: Acting
  • Usuku lokuzalwa: 1918-10-07
  • Indawo yokuzalelwa: Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
  • Iphepha lasekhaya:
  • Kwaziwa njenge: Helmut Guttmann
img

Helmut Dantine Iimuvi

  • 1943
    imgIimuvi

    Casablanca

    Casablanca

    8.16 1943 HD

    img
  • 1942
    imgIimuvi

    Mrs. Miniver

    Mrs. Miniver

    7 1942 HD

    img
  • 1942
    imgIimuvi

    To Be or Not to Be

    To Be or Not to Be

    7.8 1942 HD

    img
  • 1965
    imgIimuvi

    Operation Crossbow

    Operation Crossbow

    6.7 1965 HD

    img
  • 1957
    imgIimuvi

    The Story of Mankind

    The Story of Mankind

    4.636 1957 HD

    img
  • 1947
    imgIimuvi

    Whispering City

    Whispering City

    4.8 1947 HD

    img
  • 1946
    imgIimuvi

    Shadow of a Woman

    Shadow of a Woman

    4.2 1946 HD

    img
  • 1944
    imgIimuvi

    Hollywood Canteen

    Hollywood Canteen

    7.3 1944 HD

    img
  • 1953
    imgIimuvi

    Call Me Madam

    Call Me Madam

    6.3 1953 HD

    img
  • 1944
    imgIimuvi

    Passage to Marseille

    Passage to Marseille

    6.6 1944 HD

    img
  • 1943
    imgIimuvi

    Edge of Darkness

    Edge of Darkness

    6.1 1943 HD

    img
  • 1943
    imgIimuvi

    Northern Pursuit

    Northern Pursuit

    5.9 1943 HD

    img
  • 1954
    imgIimuvi

    Stranger from Venus

    Stranger from Venus

    5 1954 HD

    img
  • 1945
    imgIimuvi

    Escape in the Desert

    Escape in the Desert

    1 1945 HD

    img
  • 1945
    imgIimuvi

    Hotel Berlin

    Hotel Berlin

    6.1 1945 HD

    img
  • 1969
    imgIimuvi

    The File on Devlin

    The File on Devlin

    1 1969 HD

    img
  • 1958
    imgIimuvi

    Fräulein

    Fräulein

    7 1958 HD

    img
  • 1943
    imgIimuvi

    Watch on the Rhine

    Watch on the Rhine

    6.8 1943 HD

    img
  • 1975
    imgIimuvi

    The Killer Elite

    The Killer Elite

    5.8 1975 HD

    img
  • 1942
    imgIimuvi

    The Pied Piper

    The Pied Piper

    6.8 1942 HD

    img
  • 1958
    imgIimuvi

    La tempesta

    La tempesta

    6.2 1958 HD

    img
  • 1940
    imgIimuvi

    Escape

    Escape

    7.4 1940 HD

    img
  • 1956
    imgIimuvi

    War and Peace

    War and Peace

    6.6 1956 HD

    img
  • 1953
    imgIimuvi

    Guerrilla Girl

    Guerrilla Girl

    1 1953 HD

    img
  • 1974
    imgIimuvi

    Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

    Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

    7 1974 HD

    img
  • 1956
    imgIimuvi

    Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great

    5.894 1956 HD

    img
  • 1979
    imgIimuvi

    The Fifth Musketeer

    The Fifth Musketeer

    5.1 1979 HD

    img
  • 1975
    imgIimuvi

    The Wilby Conspiracy

    The Wilby Conspiracy

    6.5 1975 HD

    img
  • 1957
    imgIimuvi

    Hell on Devil's Island

    Hell on Devil's Island

    6 1957 HD

    img
  • 1943
    imgIimuvi

    Mission to Moscow

    Mission to Moscow

    5.2 1943 HD

    img
  • 1957
    imgIimuvi

    Kean - Genio e sregolatezza

    Kean - Genio e sregolatezza

    6.8 1957 HD

    img
  • 1974
    imgIimuvi

    Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

    Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

    7 1974 HD

    img
  • 1975
    imgIimuvi

    The Killer Elite

    The Killer Elite

    5.8 1975 HD

    img
  • 1958
    imgIimuvi

    Thundering Jets

    Thundering Jets

    1 1958 HD

    img
  • 1948
    imgS10 E47

    Studio One

    Studio One

    4.4 1948 HD

    img
  • 1970
    imgS3 E15

    Night Gallery

    Night Gallery

    7.8 1970 HD

    img
  • 1953
    imgS10 E34

    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    5.5 1953 HD

    img
  • 1951
    imgS61 E1

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.8 1951 HD

    img
  • 1965
    imgS3 E26

    Run for Your Life

    Run for Your Life

    7.167 1965 HD

    img
  • 1964
    imgS1 E30

    The Rogues

    The Rogues

    7.5 1964 HD

    img
  • 1955
    imgS6 E36

    The Millionaire

    The Millionaire

    5 1955 HD

    img
  • 1951
    imgS2 E33

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    6.5 1951 HD

    img
  • 1957
    imgS2 E35

    The Thin Man

    The Thin Man

    7.6 1957 HD

    img
  • 1954
    imgS4 E37

    Climax!

    Climax!

    2.7 1954 HD

    img
  • 1957
    imgS4 E9

    Sugarfoot

    Sugarfoot

    4.2 1957 HD

    img
  • 1949
    imgS6 E51

    Suspense

    Suspense

    4.2 1949 HD

    img
  • 1949
    imgS3 E57

    Lights Out

    Lights Out

    5.3 1949 HD

    img
  • 1954
    imgS4 E18

    Studio 57

    Studio 57

    1 1954 HD

    img
  • 1951
    imgS2 E33

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    6.5 1951 HD

    img