Fritz Kortner
- Acting
- May 12, 1892 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
- July 22, 1970
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
Filmography
- Kortnergeschichten · Self
- Hitler: A Career · Self
- Film Emigration from Nazi Germany · Self
- Emilia Galotti · Director
- Clavigo · Writer, Stage Director
- Der Kaufmann von Venedig · Shylock
- Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
- Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
- Leonce und Lena · Director
- Der eingebildete Kranke · Director
- Das Profil · Self
- Die Sendung der Lysistrata · Director, Writer
- Androcles and the Lion · Director
- Monitor
- Sarajevo · Director
- Secrets of the City · Director, Writer
- German Film Award · Self
- Epilogue · Mr. P. L. Hoopman
- The Last Illusion · Professor Mauthner, Writer
- The Vicious Circle · Joseph Schwartz
- Berlin Express · Otto Franzen
- The Brasher Doubloon · Vannier
- The Razor's Edge · Kosti
- Somewhere in the Night · Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
- The Wife of Monte Cristo · Maillard
- The Hitler Gang · Gregor Strasser
- The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler · Bauer, Screenplay
- The Purple V · Thomas Forster
- The Eternal Jew · Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
- Midnight Menace · Minister Peters of Grovnia
- The Crouching Beast · Ahmed Bey
- Abdul the Damned · The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
- Little Friend · Giant
- Evensong · Arthur Kober
- Chu Chin Chow · Abu Hasan
- A Girl You Don't Forget · Writer, Director
- The Upright Sinner · Writer, Director
- The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov · Dimitri Karamasoff
- Danton · Danton
- The Love Storm · Captain Kell
- The Great Desire · Self
- Dreyfus · Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
- The Other · Staatsanwalt Hallers
- Giftgas · Konzernpräsident Straaten
- Atlantik · Heinrich Thomas
- Die stärkere Macht
- The Ship of Lost Men · Capt. Fernando Vela
- Die Frau im Talar
- The Woman One Longs For · Dr. Karoff
- The Somnambulist
- Pandora's Box · Dr. Ludwig Schön
- The Last Night · Montaloup, Kommissar des Sicherheitsausschusses
- Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
- Odette · Frontenac
- Frau Sorge · Der alte Meyhöfer
- Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs · Writer
- Die Ausgestoßenen
- Alpine Tragedy · Father
- Primanerliebe · Karsten
- Mata Hari: the Red Dancer · Graf Bobrykin
- The Life of Beethoven · Ludwig van Beethoven
- Draga Maschin
- Should We Be Silent? · Der annoncirende Arzt
- Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża · lokaj
- Moderne Ehen
- The Hands of Orlac · Nera
- Dr. Wislizenus · Dr. Wislizenus
- Armes kleines Mädchen
- Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant · Urmensch
- Warning Shadows · The Count
- Nora · Krogstadt
- The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
- Am Rande der Großstadt
- What Belongs to Darkness · Gangster
- Peter the Great · Patriarch Adrian
- Der Graf von Essex · Lord Nottingham
- Am roten Kliff · Henning Rinkens
- Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
- Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
- Backstairs · The Postman