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

[6] 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.

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).

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

These include Van Rooten's Book of Improbable Saints[14]The Floriculturist's Vade Mecum of Exotic and Recondite Plants, Shrubs and Grasses, and One Malignant Parasite [15] and Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames: The d'Antin Manuscript.

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