Luis van Rooten

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Luis d'Antin van Rooten , US spelling also Luis Van Rooten (born November 29, 1906 in Mexico City , Mexico ; † June 17, 1973 in Chatham , United States ) was a Mexican architect , writer and actor with the US Movie and TV.

Life

Van Rooten had come to the United States at a young age and studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania . He then worked as an architect. During the Second World War , van Rooten went to Hollywood to pursue an acting career. Initially, the multilingual new mime with the distinctive speaking voice - in addition to English and Spanish, he also had knowledge of Italian and French - was used for military programs on the radio. In the film, where he made his debut at the end of 1943, van Rooten was now subscribed to exotic species of all kinds and "hapless villains".

In his first film, The Hitler Gang , the compact, bald actor played the Nazi criminal Heinrich Himmler , whom van Rooten looked reasonably similar. He played the chief organizer of the Holocaust two more times (in 1954 in a television film about Hitler's end and in 1961 in the cinema production Jagd auf Eichmann ) . Van Rooten's unimpressive film and television career was quickly limited to guest roles in individual episodes of both well-known and less well-known TV series. In addition, he also hired himself as a speaker in film documentaries and as a narrator. As early as 1962, he largely withdrew from the spotlight.

Luis van Rooten, who is seen as having a wide range of interests, has also dealt with other things beyond acting. He was regarded as a specialist in questions of horticulture and also published an anthology in 1967 on poetry written in the old French language ( Mots D'Heures: Gousses, Râmes ). Other book publications included reflections on humor. Luis van Rooten died in his vacation home in Massachusetts in mid-1973 at the age of 66 .

Filmography

in cinema productions, unless otherwise stated

  • 1944: The Hitler Gang
  • 1946: In Chains Around Cape Horn ( Two Years Before the Mast )
  • 1947: Smuggler from Saigon ( Saigon )
  • 1948: Opium ( To the Ends of the Earth )
  • 1948: Night Has a Thousand Eyes ( Night Has a Thousand Eyes )
  • 1949: Between women and ropes ( Champion )
  • 1949: The Brood of Satan ( City Across the River )
  • 1951: Spies, Love and the Fire Brigade ( My Favorite Spy )
  • 1951: Danger Under the Sea (short film; narrator)
  • 1952: Black Drums ( Lydia Bailey )
  • 1954–55: The Joe Palooka Story (TV series)
  • 1955: The Sea Chase ( The Sea Chase )
  • 1955–57: The Alcoa Hour (TV series)
  • 1957: The Unholy Wife
  • 1958: Miss ( Fraulein )
  • 1960: Summer in New York (TV movie)
  • 1961: Hunt for Eichmann ( Operation Eichmann )
  • 1967: Wedding Night Before Witnesses ( What's So Bad About Feeling Good? )

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, p. 296
  • Ephraim Katz : The Film Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. Revised by Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolen. New York 2001, p. 1409

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Film Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. P. 1409

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personal data
SURNAME Rooten, Luis van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rooten, Luis d'Antin van (full name); Root, Luis Van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican architect, writer and actor in US film and television
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico City , Mexico
DATE OF DEATH 17th June 1973
Place of death Chatham , United States