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