Fritz Kortner
94 movies · 1 TV show
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 12, 1892
- Died
- Jul 22, 1970 (age 78)
- Place of birth
- 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.
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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
Fritz Kortner: movies and TV shows
Acting (84)
- 1969 Der Kaufmann von Venedig
as Shylock
- 1966
- 1965
- 1958
- 1950 Epilogue
as Mr. P. L. Hoopman
- 1949 The Last Illusion
as Professor Mauthner
- 1948 The Vicious Circle
as Joseph Schwartz
- 1948 Berlin Express
as Otto Franzen
- 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
- 1944 The Hitler Gang
as Gregor Strasser
- 1943 The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
as Bauer
- 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 The Crouching Beast
as Ahmed Bey
- 1935 Abdul the Damned
as The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
- 1934 Little Friend
as Giant
- 1934 Evensong
as Arthur Kober
- 1934 Chu Chin Chow
as Abu Hasan
- 1931 The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
as Dimitri Karamasoff
- 1931 Danton
as Danton
- 1930 The Love Storm
as Captain Kell
- 1930 Dreyfus
as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
- 1930 The Other
as Staatsanwalt Hallers
- 1929 Giftgas
as Konzernpräsident Straaten
- 1929 Atlantic
as Heinrich Thomas
- 1929
- 1929 The Ship of Lost Men
as Capt. Fernando Vela
- 1929
- 1929 The Woman One Longs For
as Dr. Karoff
- 1929
- 1929 Pandora's Box
as Dr. Ludwig Schön
- 1928 The Last Night
as Montaloup, Kommissar des Sicherheitsausschusses
- 1928
- 1928 Odette
as Frontenac
- 1928 Frau Sorge
as Der alte Meyhöfer
- 1927
- 1927
- 1927 Alpentragödie
as Father
- 1927 Primanerliebe
as Karsten
- 1927 Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
as Graf Bobrykin
- 1927 The Life of Beethoven
as Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1927
- 1926 Should We Be Silent?
as Der annoncirende Arzt
- 1924 Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
as lokaj
- 1924
- 1924 The Hands of Orlac
as Nera
- 1924 Dr. Wislizenus
as Dr. Wislizenus
- 1924
- 1923 Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
as Urmensch
- 1923 Warning Shadows
as The Count
- 1923 Nora
as Krogstadt
- 1923
- 1922
- 1922 What Belongs to Darkness
as Gangster
- 1922 Peter the Great
as Patriarch Adrian
- 1922 Der Graf von Essex
as Lord Nottingham
- 1922 Am roten Kliff
as Henning Rinkens
- 1921
- 1921
- 1921 Backstairs
as The Postman
- 1921 Danton
as Minor Role (rumored)
- 1921 Landstraße und Großstadt
as Mendel Hammerstein
- 1921 Die Verschwörung zu Genua
as Gianettino
- 1921 Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
as Sultan
- 1921 The House on the Moon
as Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
- 1921 Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
as Bhirma
- 1920 The Night of Queen Isabeau
as Connetable
- 1920 Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
as Iwan Becker
- 1920
- 1920 Catherine the Great
as Potemkin
- 1920
- 1920
- 1920 Satan
as Pharao Amenhotep
- 1920
- 1920
- 1919
- 1918
- 1918
- 1918 Her Other Self
as Professor
- 1918 Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Behind the camera (15)
- Upcoming Der Sturm
Director, Teleplay
- 1971 Emilia Galotti
Director
- 1970 Clavigo
Stage Director, Writer
- 1964 Leonce und Lena
Director
- 1964 Der eingebildete Kranke
Director
- 1961 Die Sendung der Lysistrata
Director, Writer
- 1958 Androcles and the Lion
Director
- 1955 Sarajevo
Director
- 1955 Secrets of the City
Director, Writer
- 1949 The Last Illusion
Writer
- 1943 The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Screenplay
- 1932 A Girl You Don't Forget
Writer, Director
- 1931 The Upright Sinner
Writer, Director
- 1927 Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
Writer
- 1918 Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
Writer
Talk shows and appearances (6)
- 1980
- 1977
- 1975 Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
5 episodes
- 1962 Das Profil
1 episode
- 1951 German Film Award
1 episode
- 1930