
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





