 Dantine directed the 1958 military aviation film "Thundering Jets", starring Rex Reason, and continued to act in the films "Fräulein" (1958) and "Tempest" (1958).As his acting career wound down, he became a vice-president of Hollywood mogul Joseph Schenck's company, Schenck Enterprises, in 1959; Schenck was his wife's uncle.He later went to work as producer with Robert L. Lippert Productions and then as president of Hand Enterprises Inc.