Acting
Fritz Kortner
DE, EN, XX, PL cinema · 97 credits
Born
12 May 1892
Died
22 July 1970 (aged 78)
Birthplace
Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
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
Filmography
Der Sturm
Der Sturm
Director, Teleplay
Kortnergeschichten
1980
Kortnergeschichten
as Self (archive footage)
Hitler: A Career
as Self (archive footage)
Emilia Galotti
Director
Clavigo
1970
Clavigo
Stage Director, Writer
Die Sendung der Lysistrata
Director, Writer
Secrets of the City
Director, Writer
Sarajevo
Director
Epilogue
as Mr. P. L. Hoopman
The Last Illusion
as Professor Mauthner, Writer
Berlin Express
as Otto Franzen
The Vicious Circle
as Joseph Schwartz
The Brasher Doubloon
as Vannier
The Razor's Edge
as Kosti
Somewhere in the Night
as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
The Wife of Monte Cristo
as Maillard
The Hitler Gang
as Gregor Strasser
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
as Bauer, Screenplay
The Purple V
as Thomas Forster
The Eternal Jew
as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
Midnight Menace
as Minister Peters of Grovnia
Abdul the Damned
as The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
The Crouching Beast
as Ahmed Bey
Chu Chin Chow
as Abu Hasan
Evensong
as Arthur Kober
Little Friend
as Giant
A Girl You Don't Forget
Writer, Director
Danton
as Danton
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
as Dimitri Karamasoff
The Upright Sinner
Writer, Director
The Other
as Staatsanwalt Hallers
Dreyfus
as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
The Love Storm
as Captain Kell
The Great Desire
as Himself
Pandora's Box
as Dr. Ludwig Schön
The Woman One Longs For
as Dr. Karoff
The Ship of Lost Men
as Capt. Fernando Vela
Giftgas
as Konzernpräsident Straaten
Atlantik
as Heinrich Thomas
The Last Night
as Montaloup, Kommissar des Sicherheitsausschusses
Frau Sorge
as Der alte Meyhöfer
Odette
as Frontenac
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
as Graf Bobrykin
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
Actor, Writer
The Life of Beethoven
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Should We Be Silent?
as Der annoncirende Arzt
Dr. Wislizenus
1924
Dr. Wislizenus
as Dr. Wislizenus
Nora
1923
Nora
as Krogstadt
Warning Shadows
as The Count
Am roten Kliff
as Henning Rinkens
Der Graf von Essex
as Lord Nottingham
Peter the Great
as Patriarch Adrian
Backstairs
as The Postman
The House on the Moon
as Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
Landstraße und Großstadt
as Mendel Hammerstein
Danton
as Minor Role (rumored)
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
as Iwan Becker
Satan
as Pharao Amenhotep
Das andere Ich
1918
Her Other Self
as Professor
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
1918
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
as Ludwig van Beethoven, Writer