Historical information
Treasured husband, precious father
Stephen Dattner
An esceptional man
Born 19th May, 1918, Harrowgate, U.K.
Died 11th November, 1986, Melbourne,
Remembrance Day
Physical description
Born Digital
Subjects
References
- Turning the tables Stephen Dattner, a former MI5 agent who was from a long line of furriers and skinners going back 450 years. Stephen and Kay had three children: Nicholas, Fabian and Simon. The Dattners were among the social rebels at Eltham in the 1950s when the likes of Justus Jorgensen (founder of the artists' colony at Montsalvat) and Alistair Knox went bush, building their own homes from mudbricks. In his less affluent days, artist Clifton Pugh was the Dattners' gardener. There was no lack of creative spirit to fuel the Dattner kids.
- FROM Third Man to Furniture Maker. FROM Third Man to Furniture Maker. "In the post Second World War, the unemployed pulp fiction writer Holly Martins arrives in Vienna to meet with his old friend from school, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job. On the arrival, he learns that Harry has just died, hit by a truck in front of his building, and he goes to his funeral. Holly Martins sees a beautiful woman, Anna Schmidt, and a friend of Harry and sooner he learns that Anna was Harry's lover. Maj. Calloway, who is commanding the investigation, speaks to Holly". The Third Man, 1949. This is the life & history that Nicholas Dattner recounted. Major Calloway, played by screen star Trevor Howard, was based on the life of Stephen Dattner, Nicholas' father. After Stephen (of Jewish Russian descent) immigrated to Australia, the Dattners were among the social rebels at Eltham in the 1950s when the likes of Justus Jorgensen (founder of the artists' colony at Montsalvat) and Alistair Knox went bush, building their own homes from mudbricks. In his less affluent days, artist Clifton Pugh was the Dattners' gardener. There was no lack of creative spirit to fuel the Dattner kids. Mother Kay, an artist who used to paint many of the illustrations in the fur advertisements placed in the press by the family patriarch, the late Stephen Dattner, a former MI5 agent who was from a long line of furriers and skinners going back 450 years. Stephen and Kay had three children: Nicholas, Fabian and Simon.
