Trivia

His interview on Mutual Broadcasting Network was interrupted when Nazi Germany surrendered.

Making fun of the actor's name in the 1940s, a popular joke was to say that "Helmut Dantine" was a German phrase meaning "You have chewing gum on your hat." Dentyne was, and still is, a popular American brand of chewing gum.

Before 1938 he was the leader of an anti-Nazi youth movement in Vienna. When the Germans took over, he was put in a concentration camp for 3 months, after which his parents quickly sent him to live with an American friend. They later died in a concentration camp.

Sam Peckinpah dedicated his last film, "The Osterman Weekend", to Dantine; it appeared the year after the actor's death.

His father was the head of the Austrian railway system.

Son with Wrightsman: Dana Wrightsman Dantine (b. July 17, 1948).

Appeared in two films that won the Best Picture Oscar in consecutive years: Madame Miniver (1942) and Casablanca (1942).