Acting · Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria] · Born May 12, 1892
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.
Kortnergeschichten
1980
as Self (archive footage)
MovieHitler: A Career
1977
as Self (archive footage)
TVFilm Emigration from Nazi Germany
1975
as Self (archive footage)
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
1969
as Shylock
MovieFritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
1966
MovieFünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
1965
Das Profil
1962
as Self
MovieBluebeard
1951
as Haushofsmeister
German Film Award
1951
as Self
MovieEpilogue
1950
as Mr. P. L. Hoopman
MovieThe Last Illusion
1949
as Professor Mauthner
MovieThe Vicious Circle
1948
as Joseph Schwartz
MovieBerlin Express
1948
as Otto Franzen
MovieThe Brasher Doubloon
1947
as Vannier
MovieThe Razor's Edge
1946
as Kosti
MovieSomewhere in the Night
1946
as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
MovieThe Wife of Monte Cristo
1946
as Maillard
MovieThe Hitler Gang
1944
as Gregor Strasser
MovieThe Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
1943
as Bauer
The Purple V
1943
as Thomas Forster
MovieThe Eternal Jew
1940
as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
MovieMidnight Menace
1937
as Minister Peters of Grovnia
MovieThe Crouching Beast
1935
as Ahmed Bey
MovieAbdul the Damned
1935
as The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
MovieLittle Friend
1934
as Giant
MovieEvensong
1934
as Arthur Kober
MovieChu Chin Chow
1934
as Abu Hasan
MovieThe Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
1931
as Dimitri Karamasoff
MovieDanton
1931
as Danton
MovieThe Love Storm
1930
as Captain Kell
MovieThe Great Passion
1930
as Himself
MovieDreyfus
1930
as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
MovieThe Other
1930
as Staatsanwalt Hallers
Giftgas
1929
as Konzernpräsident Straaten
MovieAtlantic
1929
as Heinrich Thomas
Die stärkere Macht
1929
MovieThe Ship of Lost Men
1929
as Capt. Fernando Vela
Die Frau im Talar
1929
MovieThe Woman One Longs For
1929
as Dr. Karoff
MovieThe Somnambulist
1929
MoviePandora's Box
1929
as Dr. Ludwig Schön
MovieThe Last Night
1928
as Montaloup
Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
1928
MovieFrau Sorge
1928
as Der alte Meyhöfer
MovieDie Geliebte des Gouverneurs
1927
Die Ausgestoßenen
1927
Alpentragödie
1927
as Father
Primanerliebe
1927
as Karsten
MovieMata Hari: the Red Dancer
1927
as Graf Bobrykin
MovieThe Life of Beethoven
1927
as Ludwig van Beethoven
MovieDraga Maschin
1927
MovieShould We Be Silent?
1926
as Der annoncirende Arzt
Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
1924
as lokaj
Moderne Ehen
1924
MovieThe Hands of Orlac
1924
as Nera
Dr. Wislizenus
1924
as Dr. Wislizenus
Armes kleines Mädchen
1924
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
1923
as Urmensch
MovieWarning Shadows
1923
as The Count
Nora
1923
as Krogstadt
MovieThe Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
1923
MovieAm Rande der Großstadt
1922
What Belongs to Darkness
1922
as Gangster
MoviePeter the Great
1922
as Patriarch Adrian
MovieDer Graf von Essex
1922
as Lord Nottingham
MovieAm roten Kliff
1922
as Henning Rinkens
MovieDer Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
1921
MovieDer Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
1921
MovieBackstairs
1921
as The Postman
MovieDanton
1921
as Minor Role (rumored)
MovieLandstraße und Großstadt
1921
as Mendel Hammerstein
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
1921
as Gianettino
Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
1921
as Sultan
MovieThe House on the Moon
1921
as Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
MovieDie Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
1921
as Bhirma
The Night of Queen Isabeau
1920
as Connetable
MovieChristian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
1920
as Iwan Becker
MovieDer Schädel der Pharaonentochter
1920
Catherine the Great
1920
as Potemkin
MovieDie Brüder Karamasoff
1920
MovieVa banque
1920
MovieSatan
1920
as Pharao Amenhotep
Die Verschleierte
1920
Gerechtigkeit
1920
Das Auge des Buddha
1919
MovieDer Sonnwendhof
1918
Frauenehre
1918
Her Other Self
1918
as Professor
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
1918
as Ludwig van Beethoven
