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Philip "Phil" Van Zandt (October 4, 1904 - February 15, 1958) was an actor of film, stage and television. He made over 220 film and television appearances between 1939 and 1958.

Born in Amsterdam
Amsterdam

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, The Netherlands, Phil Van Zandt made his acting debut in 1927 and soon after left for the United States
United States

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, where he eventually landed on Broadway
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, appearing in 10 different productions between 1931 and 1938.

Van Zandt made his Hollywood
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 debut in 1939 and, in the two decades that followed, appeared in some 100 movies.






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Philip "Phil" Van Zandt (October 4, 1904 - February 15, 1958) was an actor of film, stage and television. He made over 220 film and television appearances between 1939 and 1958.

Born in Amsterdam
Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the Capital of the Netherlands and List of cities in the Netherlands with over 100,000 people of the Netherlands, located in the Provinces of the Netherlands of North Holland in the west of the country....
, The Netherlands, Phil Van Zandt made his acting debut in 1927 and soon after left for the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, where he eventually landed on Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
, appearing in 10 different productions between 1931 and 1938.

Van Zandt made his Hollywood
Cinema of the United States

United States cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, Classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period ....
 debut in 1939 and, in the two decades that followed, appeared in some 100 movies. However, he was usually cast in bit parts and also found himself typecast in villainous roles as a Nazi, criminal, or mad scientist. The few films in which he got more considerable screen-time were mostly comedy shorts, including several Three Stooges
Three Stooges

The Three Stooges was an American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid?20th century best known for their numerous short subject films....
 short subjects. In 1941, he played a small but important part as magazine editor Rawlston in Orson Welles
Orson Welles

George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
' classic film Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 in film United States dramatic film and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles....
.

He established his own acting school in Hollywood in the 1950s.

By 1958, Van Zandt had become depressed
Clinical depression

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 with his flagging career, and had spent practically all his income on compulsive gambling
Compulsive gambling

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. As a result, he committed suicide
Suicide

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 by overdosing on sleeping pills. His last film appearance was in the Three Stooges
Three Stooges

The Three Stooges was an American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid?20th century best known for their numerous short subject films....
 comedy Fifi Blows Her Top
Fifi Blows Her Top

Fifi Blows Her Top is the 184th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 in film and 1959 in film....
, released nearly two months after his death. He was buried in Chapel of the Pines Crematory
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.

Selected filmography

  • Those High Gray Walls (1939)
  • Citizen Kane
    Citizen Kane

    Citizen Kane is a 1941 in film United States dramatic film and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles....
     (1941)
  • Hostages (1943)
  • Air Raid Wardens
    Air Raid Wardens

    Air Raid Wardens is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy comedy film. This was the first of their films made at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
     (1943)
  • Tarzan Triumphs
    Tarzan Triumphs

    Tarzan Triumphs is a 1943 in film adventure film in which Tarzan fights the Nazi Germany. Johnny Weismuller had portrayed the popular Edgar Rice Burroughs character in six films with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but this was his first with the producer Sol Lesser at RKO Pictures....
     (1943)
  • Tarzan's Desert Mystery
    Tarzan's Desert Mystery

    Tarzan's Desert Mystery is a 1943 in film film starring Johnny Weismuller and Nancy Kelly. The movie was directed by William Thiele....
     (1943)
  • House of Frankenstein
    House of Frankenstein (1944 film)

    House of Frankenstein is an United States monster film horror film produced in 1944 by Universal Studios as a sequel to Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man the previous year, and, as Dracula appears in the beginning, the 1931 Dracula ....
     (1944)
  • Sudan (1945)
  • Counter-Attack
    Counter-Attack

    Counter-Attack is a 1945 in film war film starring Paul Muni and Marguerite Chapman as two Russians trapped in a collapsed building with seven enemy German soldiers....
     (1945)
  • A Thousand and One Nights
    A Thousand and One Nights (film)

    A Thousand and One Nights is a tongue-in-cheek Technicolor fantasy film set in the Bagdad of the One Thousand and One Nights, starring Cornel Wilde as Aladdin, Evelyn Keyes as the genie of the magic lamp, Phil Silvers as Aladdin's larcenous sidekick, and Adele Jurgens as the princess Aladdin loves....
     (1945)
  • Slave Girl
    Slave Girl

    Slave Girl, is a book by Jackie French which was published in Australia in 2005 and in Britain in 2007....
     (1947)
  • The Big Clock
    The Big Clock (1948 film)

    The Big Clock is a film noir thriller directed by John Farrow, based on the The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing. The black-and-white film is set in New York City and stars Ray Milland and Maureen O'Sullivan....
     (1948)
  • Fiddlers Three
    Fiddlers Three (1948 film)

    Fiddlers Three is the 107th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 in film and 1959 in film....
     (1948)
  • Squareheads of the Round Table
    Squareheads of the Round Table

    Squareheads of the Round Table is the 106th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 in film and 1959 in film....
     (1948)
  • The Lady Gambles
    The Lady Gambles

    The Lady Gambles is a 1949 in film drama film starring Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Preston . A woman accompanies her husband to Las Vegas Strip and becomes addicted to gambling....
     (1949)
  • Fuelin' Around
    Fuelin' Around

    Fuelin' Around is the 116th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 in film and 1959 in film....
     (1949)
  • Dopey Dicks
    Dopey Dicks

    Dopey Dicks is the 122nd short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 in film and 1959 in film....
     (1950)
  • His Kind of Woman
    His Kind of Woman

    His Kind of Woman is a black-and-white 1951 in film comedy drama film noir starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell. The film features supporting roles by Vincent Price, Raymond Burr, and Charles McGraw....
     (1951)
  • Three Arabian Nuts
    Three Arabian Nuts

    Three Arabian Nuts is the 129th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 in film and 1959 in film....
     (1951)
  • Spooks!
    Spooks!

    Spooks! is the 148th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 in film and 1959 in film....
     (1953)
  • Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953)
  • Yankee Pasha (1954)
  • The Big Combo
    The Big Combo

    The Big Combo is an United States film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis and stylistically photographed by cinematographer and noir icon John Alton with music by David Raksin....
     (1955)
  • Bedlam in Paradise
    Bedlam in Paradise

    Bedlam in Paradise is the 162nd short subject starring the American slapstick comedy team Three Stooges who made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 in film and 1959 in film....
     (1955)
  • The Pride and the Passion
    The Pride and the Passion

    The Pride and the Passion is a historical film drama starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren made by Stanley Kramer productions....
     (1957)
  • Man of a Thousand Faces
    Man of a Thousand Faces

    Man of a Thousand Faces is a film detailing the life of silent movie actor Lon Chaney Sr., in which the title role is played by James Cagney....
     (1957)
  • Outer Space Jitters
    Outer Space Jitters

    Outer Space Jitters is the 182nd short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 in film and 1959 in film....
     (1957)
  • Fifi Blows Her Top
    Fifi Blows Her Top

    Fifi Blows Her Top is the 184th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 in film and 1959 in film....
     (1958)


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