
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)