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Philip Dorn is a Actor Néerlandais born on 30 september 1901 at Scheveningen

Philip Dorn

Philip Dorn
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Birth name Hein van der Niet
Nationality Pays-bas
Birth 30 september 1901 at Scheveningen
Death 9 may 1975 (at 73 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

Philip Dorn (30 September 1901 – 9 May 1975), born Hein van der Niet and sometimes billed as Frits van Dongen, was a Dutch actor who had a career in Hollywood.

Dorn was born in Scheveningen, The Hague, South Holland and made his stage debut at age 14 in Dutch productions. By the 1930s, he was a popular matinee idol and was acting in films. From Germany, where he had worked with the likes of Veit Harlan, he moved to United States when World War II broke out and acted in a number of films, starting with Enemy Agent in 1940. He was usually cast as Continental lovers, anti-Nazi Germans or refugees. In the 1950s, he returned to Europe and acted in German films.

Biography

Dans son pays natal, il débute adolescent au théâtre, puis au cinéma en 1934. Jusqu'en 1939, sous le pseudonyme de Frits van Dongen, il participe à des films néerlandais et allemands, ainsi qu'à un film musical autrichien (en 1938). En particulier, il personnifie le maharadjah d'Eschnapur dans la première version parlante du diptyque Le Tigre du Bengale / Le Tombeau hindou, réalisé par Richard Eichberg en 1938 (version moins connue que celle suivante, due à Fritz Lang, sortie en 1959).

Au moment où éclate la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il s'installe aux États-Unis, adoptant alors le second pseudonyme de Philip Dorn, sous lequel il est le mieux connu. Ainsi, de 1940 à 1951, il apparaît dans des films américains, aux côtés notamment d'Humphrey Bogart, Ronald Colman, Joan Crawford, Irene Dunne, Greer Garson et John Wayne. En 1947, il joue également dans une pièce à Broadway (New York).

En 1951, de retour en Europe, il collabore encore à quatre films allemands, trois sortis en 1952, le dernier (sous son pseudonyme américain) sorti en 1953, année où des ennuis de santé récurrents le contraignent à mettre un terme définitif à sa carrière, après avoir participé à seulement trente-cinq films. Il revient s'établir en Californie, où il meurt en 1975.

Best films

I Remember Mama
I Remember Mama
(1948)
(Actor)

Usually with

Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(7 films)
Richard Eichberg
Richard Eichberg
(2 films)
Felix Bressart
Felix Bressart
(4 films)
Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan
(2 films)
Henry Rowland
Henry Rowland
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Philip Dorn (30 films)

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Actor

Dreaming Lips
Dreaming Lips (1953)
, 1h31
Directed by Josef von Báky
Genres Drama
Actors Maria Schell, O.W. Fischer, Philip Dorn, Günther Jerschke
Roles Michael
Rating61% 3.0772253.0772253.0772253.0772253.077225
Sealed Cargo
Sealed Cargo (1951)

Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Dana Andrews, Claude Rains, Philip Dorn, Carla Balenda, Onslow Stevens, Skip Homeier
Roles Konrad
Rating66% 3.342493.342493.342493.342493.34249
In 1943, at the height of the World War II Battle of the Atlantic, Captain Pat Bannon, skipper of the fishing trawler Daniel Webster, unloads his catch in his home port of Gloucester, Massachusetts. He reluctantly agrees to transport Margaret McLean to Trabo, a small community in Newfoundland. Shorthanded, he hires Danish sailor Konrad, and the Daniel Webster sails for the Grand Banks fishing grounds. Once at sea, another Dane, Holger, reports that the radio has been sabotaged. As Bannon knows all of the crew well except for Konrad and fellow Dane Holger, he suspects one of them or even Margaret of being a German agent.
The Fighting Kentuckian
The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)
, 1h40
Directed by George Waggner
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors John Wayne, Oliver Hardy, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Marie Windsor, John Howard
Roles Col. Georges Geraud
Rating63% 3.19553.19553.19553.19553.1955
John Breen, a Kentucky militiaman, falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on. Throughout the film, Breen's soldiers sing:
I Remember Mama
I Remember Mama (1948)
, 2h14
Directed by George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oskar Homolka, Ellen Corby, Cedric Hardwicke, Philip Dorn
Roles Papa
Rating78% 3.943763.943763.943763.943763.94376
The film begins with eldest daughter Katrin completing the last lines of her autobiographical novel. As she reminisces about her family life, we flashback to 1910, where the first of a series of vignettes finds Marta Hanson preparing the weekly budget with her husband Lars, daughters Katrin, Christine and Dagmar, and son Nels, who announces his desire to attend high school. Each family member makes a financial sacrifice to contribute to the boy's education.
I've Always Loved You
I've Always Loved You (1946)
, 1h57
Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Philip Dorn, Catherine McLeod, Maria Ouspenskaïa, Felix Bressart, Elizabeth Patterson, Vanessa Brown
Roles Leopold Goronoff
Rating62% 3.1460453.1460453.1460453.1460453.146045
Leopold Goronoff, lors d'une audition, remarque le talent de Myra Hassman, une jeune pianiste. Il la prend sous sa coupe, et elle devient vite amoureuse de son maître en silence. Très vite, son succès se fait grandissant et porte ombrage à Goronoff. Myra épouse George Sampter, un ami d'enfance, dont elle a une fille. Cette dernière devient, elle aussi, une grande pianiste et doit jouer sous la direction de Goronoff...
Passage to Marseille
Passage to Marseille (1944)
, 1h49
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, La provence, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Michèle Morgan, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Helmut Dantine
Roles Renault
Rating67% 3.39773.39773.39773.39773.3977
In 1942, journalist Manning (John Loder) arrives at an English air base to learn about the Free French who are fighting the Germans. Along with Captain Freycinet (Claude Rains), he watches as French bomber crews prepare for a raid. Manning's interest focuses on Jean Matrac (Humphrey Bogart), a gunner, and Freycinet describes Matrac's story:
Blonde Fever
Blonde Fever (1944)
, 1h9
Directed by Richard Whorf
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Philip Dorn, Mary Astor, Gloria Grahame, Felix Bressart, Marshall Thompson, Ava Gardner
Roles Peter Donay
Rating54% 2.707412.707412.707412.707412.70741
Peter Donay (Philip Dorn) is the not so happy owner of the Café Donay, which is a fancy road side establishment somewhere in between Reno and Lake Tahoe in Nevada. His marriage isn’t what it should be and he has a gambling addiction. One day he meets the curvy night club waitress Sally Murfin (Gloria Grahame), who really is a lot more interested in Peter’s money and business than anything else. Peter’s wife, Delilah (Mary Astor), knows about her husband's love affair, and is determined to get rid of Sally by tricking her that there is no money to be had from Peter, by telling Sally about the gambling and lying about the business being poor. Her plan doesn’t work, and instead Delilah tries to split them up by hiring Sally’s beau Freddie Bilson (Marshall Thompson) as a waiter and let him stay above their garage. Her plan goes to waste, when Sally overhears that Peter is the winner of $40,000 in a lottery. Now Sally is more determined to lay her hands on Peter. Sallys’s advances on Peter makes Freddie very jealous and outraged, and eventually Freddie pulls a gun on Peter and threatens to shoot him. Peter confesses that he and Sally are in love and to be married, and Delilah asks Peter for a divorce, asking him for the $40,000 lottery ticket as her lot in the settlement. Peter refuses at first, but eventually he gives in and gives her the money. Full of regret, he then tells Sally’s friend Johnny about his mistake, and that he wants his wife back. Sally is outraged when she hears about the settlement, and is more interested in Freddie, now that Delilah has bought him a new motorcycle. Sally disappears with Freddie, and Peter begs his wife Delilah for forgiveness, and gets it. It turns out she was bluffing about divorcing and leaving him all along, when her suitcase opens up as they kiss and make up, showing that it was empty. At the end of the movie Astor winks to the camera and smiles.
Chetniks!
Chetniks! (1943)
, 1h13
Directed by Louis King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Philip Dorn, Anna Sten, Shepperd Strudwick, Virginia Gilmore, Martin Kosleck, Felix Basch
Roles Gen. Draja Mihailovitch
Rating64% 3.23823.23823.23823.23823.2382
In the opening scene, German troops and tanks are shown invading the Kingdom of Yugoslavia while bombers attack the capital Belgrade. When the Germans, Italians, Hungarians, and Bulgarians invade Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941, Serbian army colonel Draža Mihailović forms a band of guerrillas known as the Chetniks, who launch a resistance movement against the Axis occupation. Mihailović's forces then engage in an attack on the German and Italian forces, forcing them to employ seven Axis divisions against them.
Paris After Dark
Paris After Dark (1943)
, 1h25
Directed by Léonide Moguy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors George Sanders, Philip Dorn, Brenda Marshall, Madeleine Lebeau, Marcel Dalio, Henry Rowland
Roles Jean Blanchard
Rating62% 3.139513.139513.139513.139513.13951
Entre un quotidien d'apparence normale et la clandestinité, la vie des résistants français pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Random Harvest
Random Harvest (1942)
, 2h5
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters, Henry Travers, Margaret Wycherly
Roles Dr. Jonathan Benet
Rating78% 3.9448053.9448053.9448053.9448053.944805
"John Smith" (Ronald Colman) is a British officer who was gassed and became shell shocked in the trenches during the First World War. He is confined to an asylum as an unidentified inmate because he has lost his memory and has trouble speaking. When the war ends, jubilation erupts in the nearby town of Melbridge and the gatekeepers abandon their posts to join the celebration. With no one to stop him, Smith simply wanders off.
Reunion in France
Reunion in France (1942)
, 1h44
Directed by Jules Dassin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Philip Dorn, Reginald Owen, Albert Bassermann, John Carradine
Roles Robert Cortot
Rating62% 3.1498553.1498553.1498553.1498553.149855
1940 in Paris, Michele de la Becque (Joan Crawford) is a career woman in love with industrial designer Robert Cortot (Philip Dorn). Together they enjoy a luxurious lifestyle unfazed by the approach of World War II. After the Battle of France and subsequent German occupation, Michele discovers her lover is socializing with German officers and his plants are manufacturing weapons for them. She confronts him and he does not deny her evidence. She is outraged. She aids a downed American in the Eagle Squadron of the Royal Air Force bomber pilot Pat Talbot (John Wayne) from Pennsylvania and finds herself falling in love with him. Later, she discovers Cortot is turning out defective weapons for the Germans and organizing a French fighting force. Michele is happily reunited with Cortot.