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