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Helmut Dantine

Helmut Dantine

ActorProducerDirector Oct 7 (died age 63) Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria] 1940–1979 (39 year career)
6.3 avg rating

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 …

Known For

Casablanca
Film

Casablanca

Jan Brandel (uncredited)
To Be or Not to Be
Film

To Be or Not to Be

Co-Pilot (uncredited)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Film

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Max
Mrs. Miniver
Film

Mrs. Miniver

German Flyer
War and Peace
Film

War and Peace

Dolokhov
Operation Crossbow
Film

Operation Crossbow

General Linz
The Killer Elite
Film

The Killer Elite

Vorodny
Alexander the Great
Film

Alexander the Great

Nectenabus

Filmography

Acting (49)

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