Name
Fritz Kortner
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1892-05-12
Deathday
1970-07-22 (78 years old)
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.
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
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A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot f...
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- 1929 Pandora's Box as Dr. Ludwig Schön
- 1923 Nora as Krogstadt
- 1947 The Brasher Doubloon as Vannier
- 1920 Catherine the Great as Potemkin
- 1924 The Hands of Orlac as Nera
- 1948 Berlin Express as Otto Franzen
- 1948 The Vicious Circle as Joseph Schwartz
- 1929 Die stärkere Macht
- 1928 Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
- 1946 The Razor's Edge as Kosti
- 1923 Warning Shadows as The Count
- 1924 Dr. Wislizenus as Dr. Wislizenus
- 1929 The Woman One Longs For as Dr. Karoff
- 1921 Backstairs as The Postman
- 1934 Chu Chin Chow as Abu Hasan
- 1929 The Ship of Lost Men as Capt. Fernando Vela
- 1935 Abdul the Damned as The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
- 1924 Armes kleines Mädchen
- 1922 What Belongs to Darkness as Gangster
- 1943 The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler as Bauer
- 1921 The House on the Moon as Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
- 1937 Midnight Menace as Minister Peters of Grovnia
- 1977 Hitler: A Career as Self (archive footage)
- 1946 Somewhere in the Night as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
- 1930 The Other as Staatsanwalt Hallers
- 1931 Danton as Danton
- 1930 Dreyfus as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
- 1931 The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov as Dimitri Karamasoff
- 1920 The Night of Queen Isabeau as Connetable
- 1949 The Last Illusion as Professor Mauthner
- 1950 Epilogue as Mr. P. L. Hoopman
- 1926 Should We Be Silent? as Der annoncirende Arzt
- 1928 The Last Night as Montaloup
- 1930 The Love Storm as Captain Kell
- 1934 Evensong as Arthur Kober
- 1929 Giftgas as Konzernpräsident Straaten
- 1934 Little Friend as Giant
- 1980 Kortnergeschichten as Self (archive footage)
- 1918 Her Other Self as Professor
- 1930 The Great Desire as Himself
- 1921 Landstraße und Großstadt as Mendel Hammerstein
- 1940 The Eternal Jew as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
- 1969 Der Kaufmann von Venedig as Shylock
- 1943 The Purple V as Thomas Forster
- 1920 Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
- 1935 The Crouching Beast as Ahmed Bey
- 1927 Alpentragödie as Father
- 1927 Mata Hari: the Red Dancer as Graf Bobrykin
- 1918 Der Sonnwendhof
- 1918 Der Märtyrer seines Herzens as Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1921 Die Verschwörung zu Genua as Gianettino
- 1928 Frau Sorge as Der alte Meyhöfer
- 1927 Primanerliebe as Karsten
- 1921 Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle as Sultan
- 1920 Die Verschleierte
- 1920 Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand as Iwan Becker
- 1965 Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
- 1922 Am Rande der Großstadt
- 1923 Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant as Urmensch
- 1946 The Wife of Monte Cristo as Maillard
- 1966 Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
- 1922 Am roten Kliff as Henning Rinkens
- 1920 Va banque
- 1920 Die Brüder Karamasoff
- 1921 Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha as Bhirma
- 1922 Der Graf von Essex as Lord Nottingham
- 1920 Satan as Pharao Amenhotep
- 1922 Peter the Great as Patriarch Adrian
- 1929 The Somnambulist
- 1927 Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
- 1919 Das Auge des Buddha
- 1921 Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
- 1921 Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
- 1927 Draga Maschin
- 1929 Atlantic as Heinrich Thomas
- 1924 Moderne Ehen
- 1927 The Life of Beethoven as Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1927 Die Ausgestoßenen
- 1924 Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża as lokaj
- 1929 Die Frau im Talar
- 1923 The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
- 1920 Gerechtigkeit
- 1944 The Hitler Gang as Gregor Strasser
- 1918 Frauenehre
- 1921 Danton as Minor Role (rumored)
- 1951 Bluebeard as Haushofsmeister
- 1928 Odette as Frontenac
- 1951 German Film Award ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1962 Das Profil ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 Film Emigration from Nazi Germany ( 5 episodes ) as Self (archive footage)
