Philip Dorn
Actor, Film actor
1901 – 1975
Who was Philip Dorn?
Philip Dorn, 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.
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- Born
- Sep 30, 1901
Scheveningen - Also known as
- Hein van der Niet
- Frits van Dongen
- Fritz van Dongen
- Fritz van Dungen
- Frits von Dongen
- Spouses
- Cornelia Maria Twilt
(1921/11/23 - 1930/05/21) - Marianne van Dam
(1933/11/30 - 1937/11/01)
- Cornelia Maria Twilt
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Profession
- Lived in
- The Hague
- Died
- May 9, 1975
Woodland Hills - Resting place
- Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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