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.
Personal Details
Movies (47)
Kortnergeschichten
as Self (archive footage)
1980
Hitler: A Career
as Self (archive footage)
1977
Emilia Galotti
Director (Directing)
1971
Clavigo
Writer (Writing)
1970
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
as Shylock
1969
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
1966
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
1965
Leonce und Lena
Director (Directing)
1964
Der eingebildete Kranke
Director (Directing)
1964
Die Sendung der Lysistrata
Director (Directing)
1961
Androcles and the Lion
Director (Directing)
1958
Sarajevo
Director (Directing)
1955
Secrets of the City
Director (Directing)
1955
Bluebeard
as Haushofmeister
1951
Epilogue
as Mr. P. L. Hoopman
1950
The Last Illusion
as Professor Mauthner
1949
The Vicious Circle
as Joseph Schwartz
1948
Berlin Express
as Franzen
1948
The Brasher Doubloon
as Vannier
1947
The Razor's Edge
as Kosti
1946
Somewhere in the Night
as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
1946
The Wife of Monte Cristo
as Maillard
1946
The Hitler Gang
as Gregor Strasser
1944
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
as Bauer
1943
The Purple V
as Thomas Forster
1943
The Eternal Jew
as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
1940
Midnight Menace
as Minister Peters of Grovnia
1937
The Crouching Beast
as Ahmed Bey
1935
Abdul the Damned
as The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
1935
Little Friend
as Giant
1934
Evensong
as Arthur Kober
1934
Chu Chin Chow
as Abu Hasan
1934
A Girl You Don't Forget
Writer (Writing)
1932
The Upright Sinner
Writer (Writing)
1931
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
as Dimitri Karamasoff
1931
Danton
as Danton
1931
The Love Storm
as Captain Kell
1930
The Great Passion
as Himself
1930
Dreyfus
as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
1930
The Other
as Staatsanwalt Hallers
1930
Giftgas
as Konzernpräsident Straaten
1929
Atlantic
as Heinrich Thomas
1929
Die stärkere Macht
1929
The Ship of Lost Men
as Capt. Fernando Vela
1929
Die Frau im Talar
1929
The Woman One Longs For
as Dr. Karoff
1929
The Somnambulist
1929
