Known For
Acting
Born
May 12, 1892
Died
Jul 22, 1970
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Credits
100 titles
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fritz Kortner, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Kortnergeschichten
Self (archive footage)
Hitler: A Career
Self (archive footage)
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Self (archive footage)
Emilia Galotti
Director
Clavigo
Writer
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
Shylock
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
Leonce und Lena
Director
Der eingebildete Kranke
Director
Das Profil
Self
Die Sendung der Lysistrata
Director
Androcles and the Lion
Director
Sarajevo
Director
Secrets of the City
Director
Bluebeard
Haushofsmeister
German Film Award
Self
Epilogue
Mr. P. L. Hoopman
The Last Illusion
Professor Mauthner
The Vicious Circle
Joseph Schwartz
Berlin Express
Otto Franzen
The Brasher Doubloon
Vannier
The Razor's Edge
Kosti
Somewhere in the Night
Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
The Wife of Monte Cristo
Maillard
The Hitler Gang
Gregor Strasser
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Bauer
The Purple V
Thomas Forster
The Eternal Jew
Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
Midnight Menace
Minister Peters of Grovnia
The Crouching Beast
Ahmed Bey
Abdul the Damned
The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
Little Friend
Giant
Evensong
Arthur Kober
Chu Chin Chow
Abu Hasan
A Girl You Don't Forget
Writer
The Upright Sinner
Writer
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
Dimitri Karamasoff
Danton
Danton
The Love Storm
Captain Kell
The Great Passion
Himself
Dreyfus
Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
The Other
Staatsanwalt Hallers
Giftgas
Konzernpräsident Straaten
Atlantic
Heinrich Thomas
Die stärkere Macht
The Ship of Lost Men
Capt. Fernando Vela
Die Frau im Talar
The Woman One Longs For
Dr. Karoff
The Somnambulist