Philip Van Zandt was born on October 4, 1904 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for Citizen Kane (1941), City of Missing Girls (1941) and His Kind of Woman (1951). He died on February 15, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Had been depressed over his flagging career, and had spent nearly all of his earnings through compulsive gambling. He committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills. Had played an adversary in a handful of The Three Stooges slapstick shorts. Swarthy-looking Dutch-born actor in America from the late 1920s who came to films following Broadway and appeared in hundreds of films as a minor heavy. Technically his role is Citizen Kane is one of the most important, sending out the reporter to gather information about Kane's life, which is the entire plot. He worked again with Orson Welles in The Lady from Shanhai.