 Dantine acted in the 1956 film production of Tolstoy's "War and Peace" as Dolokhov, a Cossack officer assigned to harrying the retreat of France's Napoleonic army from Moscow.He also had a small role in "Alexander the Great" (1956), "" (1957), and "The Story of Mankind" (1957).He played the lead role in "Hell on Devil's Island" (1957).