Fritz Kortner
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 12, 1892
- Died
- July 22, 1970 (aged 78)
- Birthplace
- Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
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.
Known For
Filmography
Kortnergeschichten
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hitler: A Career
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 5 eps
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
Movie · as Shylock
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
Movie
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
Movie
Das Profil
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Monitor
TV · 1 ep
German Film Award
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Epilogue
Movie · as Mr. P. L. Hoopman
The Last Illusion
Movie · as Professor Mauthner
Berlin Express
Movie · as Otto Franzen
The Vicious Circle
Movie · as Joseph Schwartz
The Brasher Doubloon
Movie · as Vannier
The Razor's Edge
Movie · as Kosti
Somewhere in the Night
Movie · as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
The Wife of Monte Cristo
Movie · as Maillard
The Hitler Gang
Movie · as Gregor Strasser
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Movie · as Bauer
The Purple V
Movie · as Thomas Forster
The Eternal Jew
Movie · as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
Midnight Menace
Movie · as Minister Peters of Grovnia
Abdul the Damned
Movie · as The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
The Crouching Beast
Movie · as Ahmed Bey
Chu Chin Chow
Movie · as Abu Hasan
Evensong
Movie · as Arthur Kober
Little Friend
Movie · as Giant
Danton
Movie · as Danton
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
Movie · as Dimitri Karamasoff
The Other
Movie · as Staatsanwalt Hallers
Dreyfus
Movie · as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
The Love Storm
Movie · as Captain Kell
The Great Desire
Movie · as Himself
Pandora's Box
Movie · as Dr. Ludwig Schön
Die stärkere Macht
Movie
The Woman One Longs For
Movie · as Dr. Karoff
The Ship of Lost Men
Movie · as Capt. Fernando Vela
Giftgas
Movie · as Konzernpräsident Straaten
The Somnambulist
Movie
Atlantik
Movie · as Heinrich Thomas
Die Frau im Talar
Movie
Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
Movie
The Last Night
Movie · as Montaloup, Kommissar des Sicherheitsausschusses
Frau Sorge
Movie · as Der alte Meyhöfer
Odette
Movie · as Frontenac
Alpine Tragedy
Movie · as Father
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
Movie · as Graf Bobrykin
Primanerliebe
Movie · as Karsten
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
Movie
Draga Maschin
Movie
The Life of Beethoven
Movie · as Ludwig van Beethoven
Die Ausgestoßenen
Movie
Should We Be Silent?
Movie · as Der annoncirende Arzt
The Hands of Orlac
Movie · as Nera
Dr. Wislizenus
Movie · as Dr. Wislizenus
Armes kleines Mädchen
Movie
Moderne Ehen
Movie
Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
Movie · as lokaj
Nora
Movie · as Krogstadt
Warning Shadows
Movie · as The Count
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
Movie · as Urmensch
The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
Movie
What Belongs to Darkness
Movie · as Gangster
Am Rande der Großstadt
Movie
Am roten Kliff
Movie · as Henning Rinkens
Der Graf von Essex
Movie · as Lord Nottingham
Peter the Great
Movie · as Patriarch Adrian
Backstairs
Movie · as The Postman
The House on the Moon
Movie · as Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
Landstraße und Großstadt
Movie · as Mendel Hammerstein
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
Movie · as Gianettino
Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
Movie · as Sultan
Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
Movie · as Bhirma
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
Movie
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
Movie
Danton
Movie · as Minor Role (rumored)
Catherine the Great
Movie · as Potemkin
The Night of Queen Isabeau
Movie · as Connetable
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
Movie
Die Verschleierte
Movie
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Movie · as Iwan Becker
Va banque
Movie
The Brothers Karamazov
Movie
Satan
Movie · as Pharao Amenhotep
Gerechtigkeit
Movie
The Eye of the Buddha
Movie
Her Other Self
Movie · as Professor
Der Sonnwendhof
Movie
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
Movie · as Ludwig van Beethoven
Frauenehre
Movie