Fritz Kortner
Acting • Born 1892-05-12 – Died 1970-07-22
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.
Filmography
89 credits
Pandora's Box
Movie • 1929
Dr. Ludwig Schön
Nora
Movie • 1923
Krogstadt
The Brasher Doubloon
Movie • 1947
Vannier
Catherine the Great
Movie • 1920
Potemkin
The Hands of Orlac
Movie • 1924
Nera
Berlin Express
Movie • 1948
Franzen
The Vicious Circle
Movie • 1948
Joseph Schwartz
Die stärkere Macht
Movie • 1929
Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
Movie • 1928
The Razor's Edge
Movie • 1946
Kosti
Warning Shadows
Movie • 1923
The Count
Dr. Wislizenus
Movie • 1924
Dr. Wislizenus
The Woman One Longs For
Movie • 1929
Dr. Karoff
Backstairs
Movie • 1921
The Postman
Chu Chin Chow
Movie • 1934
Abu Hasan
The Ship of Lost Men
Movie • 1929
Capt. Fernando Vela
Abdul the Damned
Movie • 1935
The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
Armes kleines Mädchen
Movie • 1924
What Belongs to Darkness
Movie • 1922
Gangster
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Movie • 1943
Bauer
The House on the Moon
Movie • 1921
Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
Midnight Menace
Movie • 1937
Minister Peters of Grovnia
Hitler: A Career
Movie • 1977
Self (archive footage)
Somewhere in the Night
Movie • 1946
Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
The Other
Movie • 1930
Staatsanwalt Hallers
Danton
Movie • 1931
Danton
Dreyfus
Movie • 1930
Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
Movie • 1931
Dimitri Karamasoff
The Night of Queen Isabeau
Movie • 1920
Connetable
The Last Illusion
Movie • 1949
Professor Mauthner
Epilogue
Movie • 1950
Mr. P. L. Hoopman
Should We Be Silent?
Movie • 1926
Der annoncirende Arzt
The Last Night
Movie • 1928
Montaloup
The Love Storm
Movie • 1930
Captain Kell
Evensong
Movie • 1934
Arthur Kober
Giftgas
Movie • 1929
Konzernpräsident Straaten
Little Friend
Movie • 1934
Giant
Kortnergeschichten
Movie • 1980
Self (archive footage)
Das andere Ich
Movie • 1918
Professor
The Great Passion
Movie • 1930
Himself
Landstraße und Großstadt
Movie • 1921
Mendel Hammerstein
The Eternal Jew
Movie • 1940
Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
Movie • 1969
Shylock
The Purple V
Movie • 1943
Thomas Forster
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
Movie • 1920
The Crouching Beast
Movie • 1935
Ahmed Bey
Alpentragödie
Movie • 1927
Father
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
Movie • 1927
Graf Bobrykin
Der Sonnwendhof
Movie • 1918
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
Movie • 1918
Ludwig van Beethoven
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
Movie • 1921
Gianettino
Frau Sorge
Movie • 1928
Der alte Meyhöfer
Primanerliebe
Movie • 1927
Karsten
Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
Movie • 1921
Sultan
Die Verschleierte
Movie • 1920
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Movie • 1920
Iwan Becker
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
Movie • 1965
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
Movie • 1923
Urmensch
Am Rande der Großstadt
Movie • 1922
The Wife of Monte Cristo
Movie • 1946
Maillard
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
Movie • 1966
Am roten Kliff
Movie • 1922
Henning Rinkens
Va banque
Movie • 1920
Die Brüder Karamasoff
Movie • 1921
Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
Movie • 1921
Bhirma
Der Graf von Essex
Movie • 1922
Lord Nottingham
Satan
Movie • 1920
Pharao Amenhotep
The Somnambulist
Movie • 1929
Peter the Great
Movie • 1922
Patriarch Adrian
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
Movie • 1927
Das Auge des Buddha
Movie • 1919
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
Movie • 1921
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
Movie • 1921
Draga Maschin
Movie • 1927
Atlantic
Movie • 1929
Heinrich Thomas
Moderne Ehen
Movie • 1924
The Life of Beethoven
Movie • 1927
Ludwig van Beethoven
Die Ausgestoßenen
Movie • 1927
Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
Movie • 1924
lokaj
Die Frau im Talar
Movie • 1929
The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
Movie • 1923
Gerechtigkeit
Movie • 1920
The Hitler Gang
Movie • 1944
Gregor Strasser
Frauenehre
Movie • 1918
Danton
Movie • 1921
Minor Role (rumored)
Bluebeard
Movie • 1951
Haushofsmeister
German Film Award
TV • 1951
Self
Das Profil
TV • 1962
Self
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
TV • 1975
Self (archive footage)