Frits van Dongen (1901–1975), born Hein van der Niet and sometimes billed as Philip Dorn, was a Dutch actor who had a career in Hollywood. As a teenager he moved out of his parental home to perform in an amateur theatre group; his stage name Frits van Dongen already dates from that period. In the early 1920s, Van Dongen ended up in the professional stage, but it was not until 1934 that he starred in his first film: ‘Op Hoop van Zegen’. This film marked his breakthrough as a film star in the Netherlands: in 1935 he played in ‘De Big van het Regiment’, ‘De Kribbebijter’ and ‘Op Stap’ and in 1936 in ‘Rubber’. Van Dongen then left for Berlin to work with the likes of Veit Harlan and star in a number of successful German films.
In 1939 Van Dongen and his second wife, Jewish actress Marianne van Dam, left for the United States at the invitation of director Henry Koster, who had directed Van Dongen in ‘De Kribbebijter’. When he was given a seven-year contract at MGM, Van Dongen changed his name to Philip Dorn. After making his American debut in 1940 with ‘Enemy Agent’, he would frequently be cast as continental lover, anti-Nazi German or refugee. In 1952 he returned to Europe for several German films and a Dutch theatre tour with Lily Bouwmeester. In 1953 he quit acting in films, partly due to speech problems due to a concussion. He retired for the rest of his life in California, where he died.
Philip Dorn Biography / Wiki
| Name | Philip Dorn |
| Also Know | Philip Dorn, Fritts van Dongen |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Scheveningen, ‘s-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands |
| Date of Birth | 1901-09-30 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 73 |
| Deathday | 1975-05-09 |
Philip Dorn Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Blonde Fever | Peter Donay | 1944-12-05 | Peter (Philip Dorn) and Delilah (Mary Astor) are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, wi… |
| I’ve Always Loved You | Leopold Goronoff | 1946-12-02 | A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home…. |
| The Indian Tomb | Chandra, Maharadscha von Eschnapur | 1938-01-27 | After the events of Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Maharadscha Chandra is ready to execute his well-planned vengeance, in which German architect Peter Fürb… |
| Behind Monastery Walls | Thomas Holinka | 1952-04-21 | Thomas Holinka has returned home from war and captivity. In the absence of a suitable home, he finds himself in what seems to be an abandoned monaster… |
| Türme des Schweigens | Captain de Vries | 1952-09-30 | … |
| Chetniks! | Gen. Draja Mihailovitch | 1943-01-11 | Subtitled The Fighting Guerillas, Chetniks tells the story of Yugoslavian guerilla fighter General Draja Mihailovitch. Based on the General’s own memo… |
| De Big van het Regiment | Berkhage | 1935-04-19 | Diary fragments tell of the arrival of Belgian refugees across the Dutch border in winter 1915. Reserve lieutenant Berkhage returns from the Belgian b… |
| Calling Dr. Gillespie | Dr. John Hunter Gerniede | 1942-08-01 | Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree…. |
| Underground | Eric Franken | 1941-06-28 | A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, w… |
| Paris After Dark | Jean Blanchard | 1943-10-15 | Andre Marbel is the upper-class doctor who is able to continue his practice above suspicion even though he is a leader in the French Resistance. His n… |
| Ski Patrol | Viktor Ryder | 1940-05-09 | In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders…. |
| The Journey to Tilsit | Endrik Settegast | 1939-11-02 | From the same Sudermann story that inspired Murnau’s Sunrise: a villager is tempted by a sophisticated city woman and almost kills his wife in a boati… |
| Covered Tracks | Bezirksarzt Dr. Morot | 1938-08-25 | Séraphine and her mother arrive in Paris to visit the 1867 World Exhibition. In an overcrowded city they must be accommodated in separate hotels. Dur… |
| Escape in the Desert | Philip Artveld | 1945-07-12 | Escaped Nazi POWs hold the denizens of a California resort hostage…. |
| The Good Hope | Geert | 1934-12-21 | Fisherman’s widow Kniertje urges her two younger sons to set sail on the ‘Op hoop van zegen’, a heavily insured floating wreck which duly goes … |
| Random Harvest | Dr. Jonathan Benet | 1942-12-17 | An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-… |
| Reunion in France | Robert Cortot | 1942-12-25 | Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get hi… |
| The Fighting Kentuckian | Col. Georges Geraud | 1949-09-15 | John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the … |
| Waltz Melodies | Hans v. Waldenau | 1938-01-20 | The big revue star Marietta falls in love and gives up the stage career. The theatre stands before the bankruptcy. Only when her husband has convinced… |
| The Cross-Patch | Willy van Hergershuizen | 1935-08-07 | Willy, the son of baron Van Hergershuizen, finds himself disinherited after he marries an untitled girl. His wife decides to take action and applies f… |
| The Tiger of Eschnapur | Maharadscha von Eschnapur | 1938-01-06 | … |
| Dreaming Lips | Michael | 1953-01-29 | … |
| Rubber | Johannes ‘John’ van Laer | 1936-01-04 | John Van Laer is the overseer of a vast rubber plantation in the Dutch East Indies. His new wife Renee joins him at the plantation, but the monotony o… |
| I Remember Mama | Papa | 1948-03-09 | Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who re… |
| Passage to Marseille | Renault | 1944-02-16 | A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny…. |
| Sealed Cargo | Konrad | 1951-05-19 | A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishing… |
| Der Hampelmann | Peter | 1938-10-26 | … |
| Diamond Frontier | Jan Stafford De Winter | 1940-09-30 | Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa…. |
| On the Move | George van Reen | 1935-01-01 | Janus Fortuin is a goodhearted piano tuner married to a greedy landlady. Their daughter Polly is engaged to young songwriter George van Reen. When ric… |
| Spy Hunt | Paul Kopel | 1950-06-08 | Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a… |
| Tarzan’s Secret Treasure | Vandermeer | 1941-12-01 | A scientific expedition happens to discover that gold exists on Tarzan’s escarpment. The villainous Medford and Vandermeer kidnap Jane and Boy to exto… |
| Escape | Dr. Ditten | 1940-11-01 | 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 … |
| Enemy Agent | Jeffry Arnold | 1940-04-18 | A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are…. |
| Salto Mortale | Cadenos | 1954-12-17 | … |
| Ziegfeld Girl | Franz Kolter | 1941-04-25 | Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl’s life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on … |
| Twenty Years After | 1944-01-01 | This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases…. | |
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