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Fritz Kortner
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Fritz Kortner (12 May 1892 – 22 July 1970) was an Austrian-born stage and film actor and theatre director. Kortner was born in Vienna as Fritz Nathan Kohn. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After graduating, he joined Max Reinhardt in Berlin in 1911 and then Leopold Jessner in 1916. Also in that year he made his first appearance in a silent film. He became one of Germany's best known character actors. His speciality was playing sinister and threatening roles, though he also appeared in the title role of 1930's Dreyfus. With the coming to power of the Nazis, Kortner, being Jewish, chose to flee Germany in 1933. He emigrated to the United States, where he found work as a character actor and theatre director for a time before returning to Germany in 1949. Upon his return, he became noted for his innovative staging and direction, particularly of classics such as his Richard III (1964) in which the king crawls over piles of corpses at the end. Kortner died in Munich. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fritz Kortner, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 12, 1892
Day of Death
July 22, 1970
Age at Death
78 years old
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Popularity Score
0.5
Filmography
Kortnergeschichten
Self (archive footage)
1980Movie
Hitler: A Career
Self (archive footage)
1977Movie
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Self (archive footage)
1975TV
Emilia Galotti
Director
1971Movie
Clavigo
Writer
1970Movie
Clavigo
Stage Director
1970Movie
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
Shylock
1969Movie
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
1966Movie
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
1965Movie
Der eingebildete Kranke
Director
1964Movie
Leonce und Lena
Director
1964Movie
Das Profil
Self
1962TV
Die Sendung der Lysistrata
Director
1961Movie
Die Sendung der Lysistrata
Writer
1961Movie
Androcles and the Lion
Director
1958Movie
Secrets of the City
Director
1955Movie
Sarajevo
Director
1955Movie
Secrets of the City
Writer
1955Movie
Bluebeard
Haushofsmeister
1951Movie
German Film Award
Self
1951TV
Epilogue
Mr. P. L. Hoopman
1950Movie
The Last Illusion
Professor Mauthner
1949Movie
The Last Illusion
Writer
1949Movie
Berlin Express
Otto Franzen
1948Movie
The Vicious Circle
Joseph Schwartz
1948Movie
The Brasher Doubloon
Vannier
1947Movie
The Razor's Edge
Kosti
1946Movie
Somewhere in the Night
Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
1946Movie
The Wife of Monte Cristo
Maillard
1946Movie
The Hitler Gang
Gregor Strasser
1944Movie
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Bauer
1943Movie
The Purple V
Thomas Forster
1943Movie
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Screenplay
1943Movie
The Eternal Jew
Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
1940Movie
Midnight Menace
Minister Peters of Grovnia
1937Movie
Abdul the Damned
The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
1935Movie
The Crouching Beast
Ahmed Bey
1935Movie
Chu Chin Chow
Abu Hasan
1934Movie
Evensong
Arthur Kober
1934Movie
Little Friend
Giant
1934Movie
A Girl You Don't Forget
Writer
1932Movie
A Girl You Don't Forget
Director
1932Movie
Danton
Danton
1931Movie
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
Dimitri Karamasoff
1931Movie
The Upright Sinner
Writer
1931Movie
The Upright Sinner
Director
1931Movie
The Other
Staatsanwalt Hallers
1930Movie
Dreyfus
Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
1930Movie
The Love Storm
Captain Kell
1930Movie
The Great Passion
Himself
1930Movie
Pandora's Box
Dr. Ludwig Schön
1929Movie
Die stärkere Macht
1929Movie
The Woman One Longs For
Dr. Karoff
1929Movie
The Ship of Lost Men
Capt. Fernando Vela
1929Movie
Giftgas
Konzernpräsident Straaten
1929Movie
The Somnambulist
1929Movie
Atlantic
Heinrich Thomas
1929Movie
Die Frau im Talar
1929Movie
Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
1928Movie
The Last Night
Montaloup
1928Movie
Frau Sorge
Der alte Meyhöfer
1928Movie
Alpentragödie
Father
1927Movie
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
Graf Bobrykin
1927Movie
Primanerliebe
Karsten
1927Movie
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
1927Movie
Draga Maschin
1927Movie
The Life of Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
1927Movie
Die Ausgestoßenen
1927Movie
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
Writer
1927Movie
Should We Be Silent?
Der annoncirende Arzt
1926Movie
The Hands of Orlac
Nera
1924Movie
Dr. Wislizenus
Dr. Wislizenus
1924Movie
Armes kleines Mädchen
1924Movie
Moderne Ehen
1924Movie
Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
lokaj
1924Movie
Nora
Krogstadt
1923Movie
Warning Shadows
The Count
1923Movie
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
Urmensch
1923Movie
The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
1923Movie
What Belongs to Darkness
Gangster
1922Movie
Am Rande der Großstadt
1922Movie
Am roten Kliff
Henning Rinkens
1922Movie
Der Graf von Essex
Lord Nottingham
1922Movie
Peter the Great
Patriarch Adrian
1922Movie
Backstairs
The Postman
1921Movie
The House on the Moon
Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
1921Movie
Landstraße und Großstadt
Mendel Hammerstein
1921Movie
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
Gianettino
1921Movie
Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
Sultan
1921Movie
Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
Bhirma
1921Movie
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
1921Movie
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
1921Movie
Danton
Minor Role (rumored)
1921Movie
Catherine the Great
Potemkin
1920Movie
The Night of Queen Isabeau
Connetable
1920Movie
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
1920Movie
Die Verschleierte
1920Movie
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Iwan Becker
1920Movie
Va banque
1920Movie
Die Brüder Karamasoff
1920Movie
Satan
Pharao Amenhotep
1920Movie
Gerechtigkeit
1920Movie
Das Auge des Buddha
1919Movie
Her Other Self
Professor
1918Movie
Der Sonnwendhof
1918Movie
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
Ludwig van Beethoven
1918Movie
Frauenehre
1918Movie
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
Writer
1918Movie
Odette
Frontenac
—Movie
Der Sturm
Director
—Movie
Der Sturm
Teleplay
—Movie