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name: "Philip Dorn"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 September 1901"
died: "9 May 1975"
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average_as: "actor"
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updated: "2026-09-20T00:50:36.118599+00:00"
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# Philip Dorn

Actor. Born 30 September 1901 in Scheveningen, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. Died 9 May 1975.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 September 1901, Scheveningen, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
- **Died:** 9 May 1975
- **Also known as:** Fritts van Dongen, Hein van der Niet, Frits van Dongen
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Dorn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q354038, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0233856/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33031

## Biography

Philip Dorn (born Hein van der Niet; also credited as Frits van Dongen and Hein van der Niet) was a Dutch actor who worked in European and Hollywood films. He made his stage debut at age 14 and entered professional theatre in the early 1920s. His first film role came in 1934 in the Netherlands; he later appeared in German productions before moving to the United States in 1939.

Under contract with MGM, he adopted the name Philip Dorn and appeared in films including *Enemy Agent* (1940), *Tarzan's Secret Treasure* (1941), *Random Harvest* (1942) as Dr. Jonathan Benet, *Passage to Marseille* (1944), *I Remember Mama* (1948) as Papa, and *The Fighting Kentuckian* (1949). He returned to Europe for further work in the early 1950s before retiring from acting around 1955 following an injury that affected his speech. He died in Los Angeles in 1975.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Random Harvest* (1942), Fi1m 76, as Dr. Jonathan Benet — [page](https://film.one/film/random-harvest.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Salto Mortale* (1954), as Cadenos
- *Dreaming Lips* (1953), as Michael
- *Türme des Schweigens* (1952), as Captain de Vries
- *Behind Monastery Walls* (1952), as Thomas Holinka
- *Sealed Cargo* (1951), as Konrad
- *Spy Hunt* (1950), as Paul Kopel
- *The Fighting Kentuckian* (1949), as Col. Georges Geraud
- *I Remember Mama* (1948), as Papa
- *I've Always Loved You* (1946), as Leopold Goronoff
- *Escape in the Desert* (1945), as Philip Artveld
- *Blonde Fever* (1944), as Peter Donay
- *Passage to Marseille* (1944), as Renault
- *Twenty Years After* (1944), as (archive footage)
- *Paris After Dark* (1943), as Jean Blanchard
- *Chetniks!* (1943), as Gen. Draja Mihailovitch
- *Reunion in France* (1942), as Robert Cortot
- *Random Harvest* (1942), as Dr. Jonathan Benet — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/random-harvest.md)
- *Calling Dr. Gillespie* (1942), as Dr. John Hunter Gerniede
- *Tarzan's Secret Treasure* (1941), as Vandermeer
- *Underground* (1941), as Eric Franken
- *Ziegfeld Girl* (1941), as Franz Kolter
- *Escape* (1940), as Dr. Ditten
- *Diamond Frontier* (1940), as Jan Stafford De Winter
- *Ski Patrol* (1940), as Viktor Ryder
- *Enemy Agent* (1940), as Jeffry Arnold
- *The Journey to Tilsit* (1939), as Endrik Settegast
- *Der Hampelmann* (1938), as Peter
- *Covered Tracks* (1938), as Bezirksarzt Dr. Morot
- *The Indian Tomb* (1938), as Chandra, Maharadscha von Eschnapur
- *Waltz Melodies* (1938), as Hans v. Waldenau
- *The Tiger of Eschnapur* (1938), as Maharadscha von Eschnapur
- *Rubber* (1936), as Johannes 'John' van Laer
- *The Crosspatch* (1935), as Willy van Hergershuizen
- *De big van het regiment* (1935), as Berkhage
- *On the Move* (1935), as George van Reen
- *The Good Hope* (1934), as Geert

## Gallery

- ![Philip Dorn](https://film.one/media/person/1233276/gallery-eb094c779abc.jpg) Philip Dorn — Trailer screenshot (Republic Pictures), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/The_Fighting_Kentuckian_Philip_Dorn.jpg/1280px-The_Fighting_Kentuckian_Philip_Dorn.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Philip Dorn in Tarzan's Secret Treasure - trailer (cropped screenshot) (1941)](https://film.one/media/person/1233276/gallery-1fe6a66aac95.jpg) Philip Dorn in Tarzan's Secret Treasure - trailer (cropped screenshot) (1941) — trailer screenshot (MGM), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Philip_Dorn_in_Tarzan%27s_Secret_Treasure_trailer.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Philip Dorn](https://film.one/media/person/1233276/gallery-525acea1362a.jpg) Philip Dorn — Image via TMDB
- ![Philip Dorn](https://film.one/media/person/1233276/gallery-75525a3075e6.jpg) Philip Dorn — Image via TMDB
- ![Philip Dorn](https://film.one/media/person/1233276/gallery-5a7dd3885c85.jpg) Philip Dorn — Image via TMDB
- ![Philip Dorn](https://film.one/media/person/1233276/gallery-61437181bc21.jpg) Philip Dorn — Image via TMDB

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