Helmut Dantine

Helmut Dantine

出生 : 1918-10-07, Vienna, Austria-Hungary

死亡 : 1982-05-02

略歴

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".

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The Fifth Musketeer
Spanish Ambassador
King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediately locks up his brother in the Bastille. The king wants to increase his popularity and stages an assassination against himself where Philippe is dressed as king Louis. But Philippe manages to escape the assassination and everybody believes him to be the real king...
キラー・エリート
Vorodny
裏切りが横行する殺し屋たちの非情な世界を、サム・ペキンパー監督がスローモーションを駆使した得意のバイオレンス・アクションを交えて描写。敵対する暗殺集団としてニンジャ軍団が登場し、怪しくも味わい深い。
キラー・エリート
Executive Producer
裏切りが横行する殺し屋たちの非情な世界を、サム・ペキンパー監督がスローモーションを駆使した得意のバイオレンス・アクションを交えて描写。敵対する暗殺集団としてニンジャ軍団が登場し、怪しくも味わい深い。
The Wilby Conspiracy
Prosecuting Counsel
Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court but he finds himself almost immediately on the run after a run-in with the police. Assisted by his lawyer Rina Van Niekirk and visiting British engineer Jim Keogh, he heads for Capetown where he hopes to recover a stash of diamonds, meant to finance revolutionary activities, that he had entrusted to a dentist before his incarceration. Along the way, they are followed by Major Horn of the South African State security bureau and it becomes apparent that he has no intention of arresting them until they reach their final destination
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Max
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Executive Producer
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
The File on Devlin
Hans Raedler
A young woman finds herself engulfed in Cold War intrigue when her father, a Nobel Prize-winning author, vanishes while travelling near the Russian border. Entrusted by her father with an unfinished book he was working on before his trip, the young woman becomes engaged in a power struggle over the material with her estranged stepmother. Suspiciously befriended by a journalist in the midst of the crisis, the young woman ultimately learns that no one is to be trusted - as her father's work is of interest to the intelligence departments of several countries.
Operation Crossbow
General Linz
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
Tempest
Shvabrin
A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and eventually brings him back to health. When the man is well enough to travel, the two part company and the man vows to repay the officer for saving his life. Soon after he arrives at his new post, a revolt by the local Cossacks breaks out and the fort is besieged by the rebels. The young officer is astonished to find out that the leader of the rebellious Cossacks is none other than the stranger whose life he had saved during the storm.
Fraulein
Lt. Hugo von Metzler
In melodramatic fashion, the film tells the tale of a young German woman who finds herself alone in the world when the rest of her family is killed in a WWII air raid. Helping an American military man escape the Gestapo, she finds herself on the run from the Russian Army. Escaping to the American (and safe) side of Berlin, she registers herself as a prostitute (unknowingly) and finds herself caught between the German officer who thinks she is for sale and the American officer who she saved and is now in love with her.
Thundering Jets
Director
An Air Force captain teaches pilots to fly jets but doesn't like it.
The Story of Mankind
Marc Antony
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Hell on Devil's Island
Paul Rigaud
An ex-con from Devil's Island enlists the support of the governor's daughter in exposing a prison mining operation.
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
Lord Mewl
England, first half of the 19th century. Edmund Kean is a celebrated theatre actor, notorious for his tumultuous private life. He is in love with the beautiful countess Koefeld, wife of the Danish ambassador, to the consternation of his friend, the Prince of Wales. He is also hounded by Anna Damby, who wants to become an actress to escape a marriage to Lord Mewill.
戦争と平和
Dolokhov
トルストイの同名小説を基にした戦争大河ドラマ。19世紀の帝政ロシアの末期、ロシアを巻き込んだ戦争を背景に、貴族の私生児ピエール(H・フォンダ)と伯爵令嬢ナターシャ(A・ヘプバーン)の恋愛劇を描く。 19世紀、帝政ロシア末期のモスクワ。フランス軍の侵攻がささやかれる中、貴族の私生児ピエールはロストフ伯爵の令嬢ナターシャに想いを寄せていた。そんなある日、親友アンドレイ公爵から知らせを受け、危篤の父を看取るピエール。やがて彼は、亡くなった父の莫大な財産を相続し、それを目当てに接近してきた貴族令嬢ヘレーネと結婚することに。一方、アンドレイは妊娠した妻を残して戦地へ赴くも敗戦の憂き目に遭い、負傷帰還兵となってしまう。そんな彼は、いつしかナターシャと愛し合うようになる
アレキサンダー大王
Nectenabus
20歳にしてマケドニアの王位を継ぎ、世界統一の理想のもと遠征を続けたアレクサンダー大王の波乱の人生を描いた歴史大作。英雄として今なお語り継がれるアレキサンダーをリチャード・バートンが熱演している。
Stranger from Venus
The Stranger
A stranger turns up at an English country pub and asks to stay, although reveals that he has no money. He even claims to have no name. The police become suspicious when he reveals details about Susan North, a local girl who has gone missing. However, when the police try to take the stranger in for questioning, they find that they are unable to lay their hands on him. Susan then turns up, revealing that she has been in a car crash and how the stranger saved and miraculously healed her. The stranger tells them that he is a visitor from the planet Venus. The authorities block off all exits in and out of the town. The stranger tells government representatives that he wants a meeting with heads of world governments for when his people arrive in their ship in four days time. As they set this up, the stranger discovers that the authorities instead plan to lay a trap to capture his people’s ship – something they do not realise could have disastrous consequences for Earth.
Call Me Madam
Prince Hugo
Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.
Guerrilla Girl
Demetri Alexander
Thriller - During World War II, Helmut Dantine specialized in playing villainous Nazis in Hollywood melodramas. He offers a compelling performance in a variation of these earlier roles in this suspense filled and politically loaded tale of intrigue. The story opens in German-occupied Athens during the darkest hours of the war. Civilians are not allowed on the streets after dark. - Helmut Dantine, Marianna, Irene Champlin
Whispering City
Michel Lacoste
After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.
Shadow of a Woman
Dr. Eric Ryder
Brooke's marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that her husband is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance.
Escape in the Desert
Capt. Becker
Escaped Nazi POWs hold the denizens of a California resort hostage.
Hotel Berlin
Martin Richter
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany.
Hollywood Canteen
Self
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
Passage to Marseille
Garou
A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.
Northern Pursuit
Colonel Hugo von Keller
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
Watch on the Rhine
Young Man
On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the anti-Nazi resistance. A visiting Romanian count, becoming aware of this, seeks to blackmail him.
Mission to Moscow
Maj. Kamenev
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
Edge of Darkness
Captain Koenig
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.
カサブランカ
Jan Brandel (uncredited)
戦火近づく'40年の仏領モロッコ、カサブランカは、自由を求めて渡米しようとする人々で溢れていた。ナイトクラブを経営するリックの元へ、ナチの手を逃れてここまでやって来た抵抗運動の指導者が現れる。だがその人物の妻は、かつてパリでリックと恋に落ちたイルザだった……。
ミニヴァー夫人
German Flyer
第二次世界大戦の戦意高揚映画として撮影され、戦争の荒波に巻き込まれながら気丈に生きていくミニヴァー夫人とその一家の人々の姿を感動的に描き、アカデミー作品賞、監督賞、主演女優賞など6部門を受賞した名作。 1939年のロンドン郊外。明るく美しいミニヴァー夫人は、建築技師の夫と3人の子供たちと幸福な日々を送っていた。しかし、第2次世界大戦にイギリスが参戦し、長男ヴィンや使用人が出征、残されたミニヴァー夫人たちにも戦火が…。
To Be or Not to Be
Co-Pilot (uncredited)
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Escape
Porter (uncredited)
An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.