Fritz Kortner
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.
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Acting
Movie
Pandora's Box
as Dr. Ludwig Schön
1929
Movie
The Hands of Orlac
as Nera
1924
Movie
The Razor's Edge
as Kosti
1946
Movie
Hitler: A Career
as Self (archive footage)
1977
Movie
Somewhere in the Night
as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
1946
Movie
Berlin Express
as Franzen
1948
Movie
The Eternal Jew
as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
1940
Movie
The Brasher Doubloon
as Vannier
1947
Movie
Warning Shadows
as The Count
1923
Movie
Backstairs
as The Postman
1921
Movie
The Ship of Lost Men
as Capt. Fernando Vela
1929
Movie
The Hitler Gang
as Gregor Strasser
1944
Movie
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
as Dimitri Karamasoff
1931
Movie
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
as Bauer
1943
Movie
The Woman One Longs For
as Dr. Karoff
1929
Movie
Danton
as Danton
1931
Movie
Dreyfus
as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
1930
Movie
Epilogue
as Mr. P. L. Hoopman
1950
Movie
The Vicious Circle
as Joseph Schwartz
1948
Movie
The Other
as Staatsanwalt Hallers
1930
Movie
The Wife of Monte Cristo
as Maillard
1946
Movie
Chu Chin Chow
as Abu Hasan
1934
Movie
Abdul the Damned
as The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
1935
Movie
Midnight Menace
as Minister Peters of Grovnia
1937
Crew
Movie
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Screenplay
1943
Movie
The Last Illusion
Writer
1949
Movie
Sarajevo
Director
1955
Movie
The Upright Sinner
Writer
1931
Movie
A Girl You Don't Forget
Writer
1932
Movie
Secrets of the City
Director
1955
Movie
Leonce und Lena
Director
1964
Movie
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
Writer
1918
Movie
Die Sendung der Lysistrata
Director
1961
Movie
Androcles and the Lion
Director
1958
Movie
Clavigo
Writer
1970
Movie
Der eingebildete Kranke
Director
1964