Helmut Dantine Biography

Darkly handsome Austrian-born leading man, Helmut Dantine had finely chiseled features and deep-set eyes. A fugitive from the German Anschluss of Austria, he moved to California in 1938. Soon thereafter he joined the Pasadena Community Players, gaining enough acting experience to make his film-debut playing a Nazi in International Squadron (1941) with Ronald Reagan. Soon he had cornered the market on young Nazi characters in Hollywood films, particularly after his popular performance as a downed and wounded Luftwaffe pilot in Mrs. Miniver (1942), his third film. Later Dantine was promoted to stardom by Warner Brothers, who gave him his first lead role in Edge of Darkness (1943). He went on to play leads and second leads in many films of the '40s and '50s, but made few films after 1958. In 1958 he directed the unmemorable film Thundering Jets. After marrying the daughter of Nicholas M. Schenck, the former president of Loew's Inc., he became the vice president of the Schenck Enterprises film production and distribution organization in 1959; in 1970 he became its president. In the '70s Dantine was the executive producer of three films, two of which he appeared in. ~ Rovi

• 1. Steve Wagner: Whatever he is, he's no northwoodsman.
  2. Jim Austen: A German officer in the north country. I don't get it.
  3. Col. Hugo von Keller: I give you my word as a German officer.
  4. Jim Austen: I think we captured a German flyer. [uh, no, he was sent by submarine]
  5. Laura McBain: You're not going to marry him, I am.
  6. Laura McBain: He captured 3 German aviators. [no, just one and he was not flying to Canada]
  7. Steve Wagner: Fast? We've had the longest engagement in Manitoba!
  From Northern Pursuit. Submitted by rick b (56 days ago)

• 1. Gunnar Brogge: She went to college.
  2. Capt. Koenig: You are staying in this hole like I am.
  From Edge of Darkness. Submitted by rick b (59 days ago)