Fritz Kortner
Born
May 12, 1892
Died
July 22, 1970 (78 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Vienna - Austria
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.
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Known For
Kortnergeschichten
Self (archive footage)
1980
Hitler: A Career
Self (archive footage)
1977
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Self (archive footage) · (5 episodes)
1975
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
Shylock
1969
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
1966
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
1965
Das Profil
Self · (1 episode)
1962
Bluebeard
Haushofmeister
1951
Deutscher Filmpreis
Self · (1 episode)
1951
Epilogue
Mr. P. L. Hoopman
1950
The Last Illusion
Professor Mauthner
1949
The Vicious Circle
Joseph Schwartz
1948
Berlin Express
Franzen
1948
The Brasher Doubloon
Vannier
1947
The Razor's Edge
Kosti
1946
Somewhere in the Night
Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
1946
The Wife of Monte Cristo
Maillard
1946
The Hitler Gang
Gregor Strasser
1944
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Bauer
1943
The Purple V
Thomas Forster
1943
The Eternal Jew
Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
1940
Midnight Menace
Minister Peters of Grovnia
1937
The Crouching Beast
Ahmed Bey
1935
Abdul the Damned
The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
1935
Little Friend
Giant
1934
Evensong
Arthur Kober
1934
Chu Chin Chow
Abu Hasan
1934
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
Dimitri Karamasoff
1931
Danton
Danton
1931
The Love Storm
Captain Kell
1930
The Great Passion
Himself
1930
Dreyfus
Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
1930
The Other
Staatsanwalt Hallers
1930
Giftgas
Konzernpräsident Straaten
1929
Atlantic
Heinrich Thomas
1929
Die stärkere Macht
1929
The Ship of Lost Men
Capt. Fernando Vela
1929
Die Frau im Talar
1929
The Woman Men Yearn For
Dr. Karoff
1929
The Somnambulist
1929
Pandora's Box
Dr. Ludwig Schön
1929
The Last Night
Montaloup
1928
Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
1928
Frau Sorge
Der alte Meyhöfer
1928
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
1927
Die Ausgestoßenen
1927
Alpentragödie
Father
1927
Primanerliebe
Karsten
1927
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
Graf Bobrykin
1927
The Life of Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
1927
Draga Maschin
1927
Should We Be Silent?
Der annoncirende Arzt
1926
Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
lokaj
1924
Moderne Ehen
1924
The Hands of Orlac
Nera
1924
Dr. Wislizenus
Dr. Wislizenus
1924
Armes kleines Mädchen
1924
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
Urmensch
1923
Warning Shadows
The Count
1923
Nora
Krogstadt
1923
The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
1923
Am Rande der Großstadt
1922
What Belongs to Darkness
Gangster
1922
Peter the Great
Patriarch Adrian
1922
Der Graf von Essex
Lord Nottingham
1922
Am roten Kliff
Henning Rinkens
1922
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
1921
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
1921
Backstairs
Der Postbote
1921
Die Brüder Karamasoff
1921
Landstraße und Großstadt
Mendel Hammerstein
1921
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
Gianettino
1921
Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
Sultan
1921
The House on the Moon
Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
1921
Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
Bhirma
1921
The Night of Queen Isabeau
Connetable
1920
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Iwan Becker
1920
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
1920
Catherine the Great
Potemkin
1920
Va banque
1920
Satan
Pharao Amenhotep
1920
Die Verschleierte
1920
Gerechtigkeit
1920
Das Auge des Buddha
1919
Der Sonnwendhof
1918
Das andere Ich
Professor
1918
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
Ludwig van Beethoven
1918