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Luis Van Rooten (Luis d'Antin van Rooten) was born on 29 November, 1906 in Mexico City, Mexico, is a Mexican-born American actor (1906–1973). Discover Luis Van Rooten's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

Popular As Luis d'Antin van Rooten
Occupation Actor, author, architect, painter, translator
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 29 November, 1906
Birthday 29 November
Birthplace Mexico City, Mexico
Date of death 17 June, 1973
Died Place Chatham, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality Mexico

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Luis Van Rooten Height, Weight & Measurements

At 66 years old, Luis Van Rooten height is 5' 3½" (1.61 m) .

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Height 5' 3½" (1.61 m)
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Who Is Luis Van Rooten's Wife?

His wife is Catherine Gaylord Kelly

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Wife Catherine Gaylord Kelly
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Luis Van Rooten Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Luis Van Rooten worth at the age of 66 years old? Luis Van Rooten’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from Mexico. We have estimated Luis Van Rooten's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
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1906

Luis d'Antin van Rooten (November 29, 1906 – June 17, 1973) was a Mexican-born American actor.

He was sometimes credited as Louis Van Rooten.

Van Rooten was born in 1906 in Mexico City, Mexico.

His father worked as a translator and clerk at the American Embassy.

Some sources say his father was killed during the Mexican Revolution.

1914

In 1914, when he was 8, Van Rooten emigrated to the United States with his Belgian grandmother.

Because he had no papers, his grandmother claimed van Rooten was her son, which resulted in the elongation of his name to Luis Ricardo Carlos Fernand d’Antin y Zuloaga van Rooten.

1927

Van Rooten attended a boarding school in Pennsylvania and earned his BA in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in 1927.

He enjoyed a successful career as an architect in Cleveland, Ohio before his love for acting led to a career as one of radio and television's most prolific character actors and narrators.

Van Rooten's obituary in The New York Times noted that he worked on as many as 50 shows a month because of his ability to do dialects and criminals.

Once, he was bumped off in 10 crime shows in a week.

His facility with languages made van Rooten an in-demand military radio announcer during World War II.

He conducted a variety of broadcasts in Italian, Spanish, and French.

This led to film work, often in roles requiring an accent or skill with dialects.

1938

One of his first film narration jobs was Industrial Ohio, a 1938 film in the SOHIO Let's Explore Ohio series.

1940

He portrayed the evil Roxor in the late 1940s revival of the radio serial Chandu the Magician and portrayed the title character's sidekick, Denny, in Bulldog Drummond.

Van Rooten played Emilio in the radio soap opera Valiant Lady.

1944

Known for his villainous roles, he played Nazi ringleader Heinrich Himmler in The Hitler Gang (1944) and Operation Eichmann (1961).

1946

He played supporting roles with a number of film stars, including Alan Ladd in Two Years Before the Mast (1946) and Beyond Glory (1948), Charles Laughton in The Big Clock (1948), Veronica Lake in Saigon (1948), Edward G. Robinson in Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948), and Kirk Douglas in Detective Story (1951).

1949

He acted in The Mysterious Traveler and I Love a Mystery, and played "The Maestro" in the 1949 story "Bury Your Dead, Arizona" and as ranch foreman "Jasper" in the 1950 story "The Battle of the Century."

In "Joey Was Different," the August 22, 1949 edition of Radio City Playhouse, he played sixteen different characters in addition to writing the script.

He is best known for his character work in films, but van Rooten was also a skilled artist and designer and the author of several sophisticated books of humor.

These include Van Rooten's Book of Improbable Saints and The Floriculturist's Vade Mecum of Exotic and Recondite Plants, Shrubs and Grasses, and One Malignant Parasite

1950

He provided the voices for both the King and the Grand Duke in Walt Disney's animated film Cinderella (1950).

Van Rooten found steady work doing the narration in addition to acting in films, live television and radio dramas.

1952

In 1952, he played the fictional French detective Maigret in an episode of the anthology series Suspense.

1958

He also performed on Broadway in Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet (1958) and John Osborne's Luther (1963).

In 1958 he guest-starred as murderer Samuel D. Carlin in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the One-Eyed Witness".

Van Rooten also appeared in an uncredited role on The Honeymooners as Mr. Johnson, the landlord.

1967

In particular, Van Rooten is well known for his book Mots D'Heures: Gousses, Rames (1967), ostensibly a collection of poems by an obscure and unsung Frenchman (with translations and commentary).

Van Rooten used French words and phrases which, when spoken aloud with a French accent, produce English Mother Goose rhymes, a work of homophonic translation.

The following example, when spoken aloud, sounds like the opening lines to "Humpty Dumpty":

A free translation might read:

1973

Van Rooten died June 17, 1973, in Chatham, Massachusetts in the retirement home he had designed himself.