Fritz Kortner
Biography
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
German Film Award
1951
Monitor
1958
Pandora's Box
1929
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
1975
The Hands of Orlac
1924
The Razor's Edge
1946
Hitler: A Career
1977
Berlin Express
1948
Das Profil
1962
The Vicious Circle
1948
Somewhere in the Night
1946
The Hitler Gang
1944
Filmography
German Film Award
as Self · 1951
Monitor
· 1958
Pandora's Box
as Dr. Ludwig Schön · 1929
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
as Self (archive footage) · 1975
The Hands of Orlac
as Nera · 1924
The Razor's Edge
as Kosti · 1946
Hitler: A Career
as Self (archive footage) · 1977
Berlin Express
as Otto Franzen · 1948
Das Profil
as Self · 1962
The Vicious Circle
as Joseph Schwartz · 1948
Somewhere in the Night
as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle · 1946
The Hitler Gang
as Gregor Strasser · 1944
The Eternal Jew
as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage) · 1940
Danton
as Minor Role (rumored) · 1921
Abdul the Damned
as The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar · 1935
The Brasher Doubloon
as Vannier · 1947
The Ship of Lost Men
as Capt. Fernando Vela · 1929
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
· 1921
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
as Iwan Becker · 1920
The Wife of Monte Cristo
as Maillard · 1946
Frauenehre
· 1918
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
as Dimitri Karamasoff · 1931
Primanerliebe
as Karsten · 1927
Dr. Wislizenus
as Dr. Wislizenus · 1924
Die Ausgestoßenen
· 1927
The Other
as Staatsanwalt Hallers · 1930
Frau Sorge
as Der alte Meyhöfer · 1928
Warning Shadows
as The Count · 1923
Der Sonnwendhof
· 1918
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
· 1920
Draga Maschin
· 1927
Epilogue
as Mr. P. L. Hoopman · 1950
Little Friend
as Giant · 1934
Alpentragödie
as Father · 1927
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
· 1921
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
as Graf Bobrykin · 1927
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
as Bauer · 1943
The Life of Beethoven
as Ludwig van Beethoven · 1927
Va banque
· 1920
Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
as lokaj · 1924
Der Graf von Essex
as Lord Nottingham · 1922
Die stärkere Macht
· 1929
Nora
as Krogstadt · 1923
What Belongs to Darkness
as Gangster · 1922
The Purple V
as Thomas Forster · 1943
Odette
as Frontenac · 1928
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
· 1927
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
· 1965
The Crouching Beast
as Ahmed Bey · 1935
The House on the Moon
as Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler · 1921
Backstairs
as The Postman · 1921
The Great Desire
as Himself · 1930
The Night of Queen Isabeau
as Connetable · 1920
Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
as Bhirma · 1921
Danton
as Danton · 1931
Am Rande der Großstadt
· 1922
The Eye of the Buddha
· 1919
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
as Ludwig van Beethoven · 1918
Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
as Sultan · 1921
Dreyfus
as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus · 1930
Landstraße und Großstadt
as Mendel Hammerstein · 1921
Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
· 1928
The Woman One Longs For
as Dr. Karoff · 1929
Armes kleines Mädchen
· 1924
Peter the Great
as Patriarch Adrian · 1922
Am roten Kliff
as Henning Rinkens · 1922
Evensong
as Arthur Kober · 1934
Chu Chin Chow
as Abu Hasan · 1934
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
as Urmensch · 1923
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
as Shylock · 1969
Die Frau im Talar
· 1929
Should We Be Silent?
as Der annoncirende Arzt · 1926
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
as Gianettino · 1921
The Love Storm
as Captain Kell · 1930
The Last Night
as Montaloup, Kommissar des Sicherheitsausschusses · 1928
Catherine the Great
as Potemkin · 1920
Moderne Ehen
· 1924
The Brothers Karamazov
· 1920
The Last Illusion
as Professor Mauthner · 1949
Kortnergeschichten
as Self (archive footage) · 1980
Atlantik
as Heinrich Thomas · 1929
The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
· 1923
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
· 1966
Her Other Self
as Professor · 1918
Midnight Menace
as Minister Peters of Grovnia · 1937
Satan
as Pharao Amenhotep · 1920
Die Verschleierte
· 1920
The Somnambulist
· 1929
Gerechtigkeit
· 1920
Giftgas
as Konzernpräsident Straaten · 1929