Fritz Kortner
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1892-05-12
Day of Death
1970-07-22 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Vienna - Austria
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.
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Known For
Acting
(1980)
Kortnergeschichten
as Self (archive footage)
(1977)
Hitler: A Career
as Self (archive footage)
(1969)
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
as Shylock
(1966)
(1965)
(1951)
Bluebeard
as Haushofmeister
(1950)
Epilogue
as Mr. P. L. Hoopman
(1949)
The Last Illusion
as Professor Mauthner
(1948)
Berlin Express
as Franzen
(1948)
The Vicious Circle
as Joseph Schwartz
(1947)
The Brasher Doubloon
as Vannier
(1946)
The Razor's Edge
as Kosti
(1946)
Somewhere in the Night
as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
(1946)
The Wife of Monte Cristo
as Maillard
(1943)
(1943)
The Purple V
as Thomas Forster
(1940)
The Eternal Jew
as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
(1937)
Midnight Menace
as Minister Peters of Grovnia
(1935)
Abdul the Damned
as The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
(1935)
The Crouching Beast
as Ahmed Bey
(1934)
Chu Chin Chow
as Abu Hasan
(1934)
Little Friend
as Giant
(1934)
Evensong
as Arthur Kober
(1931)
Danton
as Danton
(1931)
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
as Dimitri Karamasoff
(1930)
Dreyfus
as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
(1930)
The Great Passion
as Himself
(1930)
The Other
as Staatsanwalt Hallers
(1930)
The Love Storm
as Captain Kell
(1929)
Pandora's Box
as Dr. Ludwig Schön
(1929)
Atlantic
as Heinrich Thomas
(1929)
The Woman Men Yearn For
as Dr. Karoff
(1929)
(1929)
The Ship of Lost Men
as Capt. Fernando Vela
(1929)
(1929)
(1929)
Giftgas
as Konzernpräsident Straaten
(1928)
The Last Night
as Montaloup
(1928)
Frau Sorge
as Der alte Meyhöfer
(1928)
(1927)
Primanerliebe
as Karsten
(1927)
The Life of Beethoven
as Ludwig van Beethoven
(1927)
(1927)
(1927)
(1927)
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
as Graf Bobrykin
(1927)
Alpentragödie
as Father
(1926)
Should We Be Silent?
as Der annoncirende Arzt
(1924)
The Hands of Orlac
as Nera
(1924)
Dr. Wislizenus
as Dr. Wislizenus
(1924)
(1924)
Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
as lokaj
(1924)
(1923)
Warning Shadows
as The Count
(1923)
Nora
as Krogstadt
(1923)
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
as Urmensch
(1923)
(1922)
Peter the Great
as Patriarch Adrian
(1922)
Am roten Kliff
as Henning Rinkens
(1922)
Der Graf von Essex
as Lord Nottingham
(1922)
What Belongs to Darkness
as Gangster
(1922)
(1921)
Landstraße und Großstadt
as Mendel Hammerstein
(1921)
Backstairs
as Der Postbote
(1921)
(1921)
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
as Gianettino
(1921)
The House on the Moon
as Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
(1921)
Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
as Sultan
(1921)
Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
as Bhirma
(1921)
(1921)
(1920)
Satan
as Pharao Amenhotep
(1920)
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
as Iwan Becker
(1920)
The Night of Queen Isabeau
as Connetable
(1920)
(1920)
(1920)
(1920)
(1920)
Catherine the Great
as Potemkin
(1919)
(1918)
Das andere Ich
as Professor
(1918)
(1918)
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Crew
(1971)
Emilia Galotti
Director
(1970)
Clavigo
Stage Director, Writer
(1964)
Der eingebildete Kranke
Director
(1964)
Leonce und Lena
Director
(1961)
Die Sendung der Lysistrata
Director, Writer
(1958)
Androcles and the Lion
Director
(1955)
Secrets of the City
Director, Writer
(1955)
Sarajevo
Director
(1949)
The Last Illusion
Writer
(1943)
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Screenplay
(1933)
A Girl You Don't Forget
Writer, Director
(1931)
The Upright Sinner
Writer, Director
(1927)
(1918)