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.
Movie | Hitler: A Career | Self (archive footage) | 1977-07-08 |
Series | Film Emigration from Nazi Germany | Self (archive footage) | 1975-11-11 |
Movie | Der Kaufmann von Venedig | Shylock | 1969-03-02 |
Movie | Bluebeard | Haushofmeister | 1951-09-27 |
Movie | Epilogue | Mr. P. L. Hoopman | 1950-09-28 |
Movie | The Last Illusion | Professor Mauthner | 1949-04-19 |
Movie | Berlin Express | Franzen | 1948-05-01 |
Movie | The Vicious Circle | Joseph Schwartz | 1948-07-21 |
Movie | The Brasher Doubloon | Vannier | 1947-02-06 |
Movie | The Wife of Monte Cristo | Maillard | 1946-04-22 |
Movie | Somewhere in the Night | Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle | 1946-06-12 |
Movie | The Razor's Edge | Kosti | 1946-11-19 |
Movie | The Purple V | Thomas Forster | 1943-03-12 |
Movie | The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler | Bauer | 1943-09-10 |
Movie | The Eternal Jew | Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage) | 1940-11-28 |
Movie | Midnight Menace | Minister Peters of Grovnia | 1937-05-04 |
Movie | Abdul the Damned | The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar | 1935-08-05 |
Movie | The Crouching Beast | Ahmed Bey | 1935-08-29 |
Movie | Chu Chin Chow | Abu Hasan | 1934-05-01 |
Movie | Little Friend | Giant | 1934-11-18 |
Movie | Evensong | Arthur Kober | 1934-09-03 |
Movie | Danton | Danton | 1931-01-21 |
Movie | The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov | Dimitri Karamasoff | 1931-02-05 |
Movie | The Other | Staatsanwalt Hallers | 1930-08-11 |
Movie | The Love Storm | Captain Kell | 1930-11-21 |
Movie | Dreyfus | Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus | 1930-08-15 |
Movie | The Great Longing | Himself | 1930-08-24 |
Movie | The Woman Men Yearn For | Dr. Karoff | 1929-04-29 |
Movie | Pandora's Box | Dr. Ludwig Schön | 1929-01-30 |
Movie | The Ship of Lost Men | Capt. Fernando Vela | 1929-09-17 |
Movie | Giftgas | Konzernpräsident Straaten | 1929-11-13 |
Movie | Frau Sorge | Der alte Meyhöfer | 1928-02-07 |
Movie | The Last Night | Montaloup | 1928-10-11 |
Movie | Mata Hari: the Red Dancer | 1927-05-02 | |
Movie | Primanerliebe | Karsten | 1927-06-02 |
Movie | Should We Be Silent? | Der annoncirende Arzt | 1926-04-05 |
Movie | Dr. Wislizenus | Dr. Wislizenus | 1924-03-03 |
Movie | The Hands of Orlac | Nera | 1924-09-24 |
Movie | Moderne Ehen | 1924-12-10 | |
Movie | Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża | lokaj | 1924-12-27 |
Movie | Warning Shadows | The Count | 1923-10-16 |
Movie | Am roten Kliff | Henning Rinkens | 1922-04-29 |
Movie | Peter the Great | Patriarch Adrian | 1922-11-02 |
Movie | Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha | Bhirma | 1921-01-20 |
Movie | Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle | Sultan | 1921-02-07 |
Movie | Backstairs | Der Postbote | 1921-12-11 |
Movie | Die Verschwörung zu Genua | Gianettino | 1921-02-25 |
Movie | Die Brüder Karamasoff | 1921-07-20 | |
Movie | Catherine the Great | Potemkin | 1920-10-22 |
Movie | Die Verschleierte | 1920-01-01 | |
Movie | Satanas | Pharao Amenhotep | 1920-01-30 |
Movie | The Night of Queen Isabeau | Connetable | 1920-11-18 |
Movie | Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand | Iwan Becker | 1920-11-12 |
Movie | Das Auge des Buddha | 1919-03-21 | |
Movie | Der Märtyrer seines Herzens | Ludwig van Beethoven | 1918-02-08 |
Movie | Das andere Ich | Professor | 1918-09-06 |
Movie | Der Sonnwendhof | 1918-11-15 |