Helmut Dantine SIGNED Card with Photo attached to 8 1/2 x 11 Cardboard Page in very good condition ........
Signed "To XXX Helmet Dantine"
Despite being forced to flee his native Austria after the Anschluss,
Helmut Dantine forged a Hollywood career playing Germans during World
War II. Released from the Rosserlaende concentration camp with the
connivance of a sympathetic physician, 19 year-old Helmut Guttman -- as
he was initially called -- lodged with a friend in Los Angeles and began
acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. He was signed soon after by Warner
Bros. and took uncredited parts in classics like "To Be or Not to Be"
and "Casablanca" before cameoing as the wounded Luftwaffe pilot in the
British home front drama "Mrs Miniver." He proved more sadistic as the
commandant executing villagers aiding the Norwegian resistance in "Edge
of Darkness," with Errol Flyn but he also played a Maquis patriot escaping from Devil's
Island with Humphrey Bogart in "Passage to Marseille" and an anti-Nazi
underground leader evading the Gestapo in "Hotel Berlin." His career
stuttered after the war and between prestige supporting roles like
Prince Hugo in the Ethel Merman musical "Call Me Madam" and the caddish
Dolokhov in King Vidor's adaptation of "War and Peace," he settled for
TV slots and B leads like the Greek partisan defending Athens from the
Axis in "Guerilla Girl" and the alien warning Patricia Neal of dire
portents in "Stranger From Venus." Married to the daughter of former MGM
boss Nicholas Schenck, Dantine tried his hand at directing with
"Thundering Jets" and later executive produced "Bring Me the Head of
Alfredo Garcia" and "The Killer Elite" for Sam Peckinpah.
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