Actor
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 ...

Known For
Acting
1979 -- The Fifth Musketeer | Spanish Ambassador
1975 -- The Killer Elite | Vorodny
1975 -- The Wilby Conspiracy | Prosecuting Counsel
1974 -- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Max
1969 -- The File on Devlin | Hans Raedler
1965 -- Operation Crossbow | General Linz
1958 -- Tempest | Shvabrin
1958 -- Fraulein | Lt. Hugo von Metzler
1957 -- The Story of Mankind | Marc Antony
1957 -- Hell on Devil's Island | Paul Rigaud
1957 -- Kean: Genius or Scoundrel | Lord Mewl
1956 -- War and Peace | Dolokhov
1956 -- Alexander the Great | Nectenabus
1954 -- Stranger from Venus | The Stranger
1953 -- Call Me Madam | Prince Hugo
1953 -- Guerrilla Girl | Demetri Alexander
1947 -- Whispering City | Michel Lacoste
1946 -- Shadow of a Woman | Dr. Eric Ryder
1945 -- Escape in the Desert | Capt. Becker
1945 -- Hotel Berlin | Martin Richter
1944 -- Hollywood Canteen | Self
1944 -- Passage to Marseille | Garou
1943 -- Northern Pursuit | Colonel Hugo von Keller
1943 -- Watch on the Rhine | Young Man
1943 -- Mission to Moscow | Maj. Kamenev
1943 -- Edge of Darkness | Captain Koenig
1943 -- Casablanca | Jan Brandel (uncredited)
1942 -- The Pied Piper | Aide
1942 -- Mrs. Miniver | German Flyer
1942 -- To Be or Not to Be | Co-Pilot (uncredited)
1940 -- Escape | Porter (uncredited)
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