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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fritz Kortner, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 1980 · Kortnergeschichten as Self (archive footage)
- 1977 · Hitler: A Career as Self (archive footage)
- 1975 · Film Emigration from Nazi Germany as Self (archive footage)
- 1969 · Der Kaufmann von Venedig as Shylock
- 1966 · Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte as
- 1965 · Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe as
- 1962 · Das Profil as Self
- 1951 · Bluebeard as Haushofmeister
- 1951 · Deutscher Filmpreis as Self
- 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 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
- 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 · The Great Longing as Himself
- 1930 · Dreyfus as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
- 1930 · The Other as Staatsanwalt Hallers
- 1929 · Giftgas as Konzernpräsident Straaten
- 1929 · Atlantic as Heinrich Thomas
- 1929 · Die stärkere Macht as
- 1929 · The Ship of Lost Men as Capt. Fernando Vela
- 1929 · Die Frau im Talar as
- 1929 · The Woman Men Yearn For as Dr. Karoff
- 1929 · The Somnambulist as
- 1929 · Pandora's Box as Dr. Ludwig Schön
- 1928 · The Last Night as Montaloup
- 1928 · Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour as
- 1928 · Frau Sorge as Der alte Meyhöfer
- 1927 · Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs as
- 1927 · Die Ausgestoßenen as
- 1927 · Alpentragödie as Father
- 1927 · Primanerliebe as Karsten
- 1927 · Mata Hari: the Red Dancer as
- 1927 · The Life of Beethoven as Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1927 · Draga Maschin as
- 1926 · Should We Be Silent? as Der annoncirende Arzt
- 1924 · Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża as lokaj
- 1924 · Moderne Ehen as
- 1924 · The Hands of Orlac as Nera
- 1924 · Dr. Wislizenus as Dr. Wislizenus
- 1924 · Armes kleines Mädchen as
- 1923 · Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant as Urmensch
- 1923 · Warning Shadows as The Count
- 1923 · Nora as Krogstadt
- 1923 · The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss as
- 1922 · Am Rande der Großstadt as
- 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 · Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon as
- 1921 · Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod as
- 1921 · Backstairs as Der Postbote
- 1921 · Die Brüder Karamasoff as
- 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 · Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter as
- 1920 · Catherine the Great as Potemkin
- 1920 · Va banque as
- 1920 · Satanas as Pharao Amenhotep
- 1920 · Die Verschleierte as
- 1919 · Das Auge des Buddha as
- 1918 · Der Sonnwendhof as
- 1918 · Das andere Ich as Professor
- 1918 · Der Märtyrer seines Herzens as Ludwig van Beethoven