Background
Dorn was born in Scheveningen, The Hague, South Holland and made his stage debut at age 14 in Dutch productions.
Dorn was born in Scheveningen, The Hague, South Holland and made his stage debut at age 14 in Dutch productions.
By the 1930s, he was a popular matinee idol and was acting in films. He was usually cast as Continental lovers, anti-Nazi Germans or refugees. In the 1950s, he returned to Europe and acted in German films.
Dorn suffered from phlebitis, requiring surgery and causing a number of strokes.
After an accident on stage, he retired in 1955 and spent the next 20 years of his life in his home in California. He died of a heart attack in Los Los Angeles