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.
89 acting credits · 10 directing credits
Acting · 89
German Film Award
1951
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
1975
The Razor's Edge
1946
Pandora's Box
1929
Das Profil
1962
Somewhere in the Night
1946
Hitler: A Career
1977
The Eternal Jew
1940
The Hands of Orlac
1924
The Hitler Gang
1944
The Brasher Doubloon
1947
Berlin Express
1948
Warning Shadows
1923
Chu Chin Chow
1934
The Last Night
1928
Danton
1921
Satan
1920
The Vicious Circle
1948
The Wife of Monte Cristo
1946
Nora
1923
Peter the Great
1922
The Woman One Longs For
1929
The Purple V
1943
Primanerliebe
1927
The Other
1930
The Great Passion
1930
Moderne Ehen
1924
Catherine the Great
1920
Atlantic
1929
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
1943
The Crouching Beast
1935
Frau Sorge
1928
Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
1921
Kortnergeschichten
1980
The Ship of Lost Men
1929
The Last Illusion
1949
The House on the Moon
1921
Am roten Kliff
1922
Landstraße und Großstadt
1921
Abdul the Damned
1935
What Belongs to Darkness
1922
Midnight Menace
1937
Evensong
1934
Little Friend
1934
Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
1924
Backstairs
1921
Danton
1931
Dreyfus
1930
Dr. Wislizenus
1924
Alpentragödie
1927
Frauenehre
1918
Giftgas
1929
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
1927
Should We Be Silent?
1926
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
1920
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
1965
The Life of Beethoven
1927
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
1931
Der Graf von Essex
1922
Die Frau im Talar
1929
Bluebeard
1951
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
1920
Armes kleines Mädchen
1924
The Somnambulist
1929
Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
1921
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
1921
The Night of Queen Isabeau
1920
Die Brüder Karamasoff
1921
Epilogue
1950
Her Other Self
1918
Die Ausgestoßenen
1927
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
1921
Der Sonnwendhof
1918
The Love Storm
1930
Gerechtigkeit
1920
Draga Maschin
1927
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
1918
Die stärkere Macht
1929
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
1969
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
1923
Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
1928
Am Rande der Großstadt
1922
The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
1923
Va banque
1920
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
1927
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
1921
Das Auge des Buddha
1919
Die Verschleierte
1920
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
1966
