Fritz Kortner
Acting
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.
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Kortnergeschichten
1980
Self (archive footage)
movieHitler: A Career
1977
Self (archive footage)
tvFilm Emigration from Nazi Germany
1975
Self (archive footage)
movieBluebeard
1951
Haushofsmeister
movieEpilogue
1950
Mr. P. L. Hoopman
movieThe Last Illusion
1949
Professor Mauthner
movieThe Vicious Circle
1948
Joseph Schwartz
movieBerlin Express
1948
Otto Franzen
movieSomewhere in the Night
1946
Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
movieThe Hitler Gang
1944
Gregor Strasser
The Purple V
1943
Thomas Forster
movieThe Eternal Jew
1940
Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
movieMidnight Menace
1937
Minister Peters of Grovnia
movieThe Crouching Beast
1935
Ahmed Bey
movieAbdul the Damned
1935
The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
movieEvensong
1934
Arthur Kober
movieChu Chin Chow
1934
Abu Hasan
movieThe Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
1931
Dimitri Karamasoff
movieDanton
1931
Danton
movieThe Love Storm
1930
Captain Kell
movieThe Great Passion
1930
Himself
movieDreyfus
1930
Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
movieThe Other
1930
Staatsanwalt Hallers
Giftgas
1929
Konzernpräsident Straaten
movieAtlantic
1929
Heinrich Thomas
movieThe Ship of Lost Men
1929
Capt. Fernando Vela
movieThe Woman One Longs For
1929
Dr. Karoff
moviePandora's Box
1929
Dr. Ludwig Schön
movieThe Last Night
1928
Montaloup
movieFrau Sorge
1928
Der alte Meyhöfer
movieMata Hari: the Red Dancer
1927
Graf Bobrykin
movieThe Life of Beethoven
1927
Ludwig van Beethoven
movieShould We Be Silent?
1926
Der annoncirende Arzt
Dr. Wislizenus
1924
Dr. Wislizenus
movieWarning Shadows
1923
The Count
Nora
1923
Krogstadt
moviePeter the Great
1922
Patriarch Adrian
movieDer Graf von Essex
1922
Lord Nottingham
movieAm roten Kliff
1922
Henning Rinkens
movieBackstairs
1921
The Postman
movieDanton
1921
Minor Role (rumored)
movieLandstraße und Großstadt
1921
Mendel Hammerstein
movieThe House on the Moon
1921
Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
movieChristian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
1920
Iwan Becker
movieSatan
1920
Pharao Amenhotep
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
1918
Ludwig van Beethoven
Directing11
movieEmilia Galotti
1971
Director
Clavigo
1970
Stage Director
movieSarajevo
1955
Director
movieSecrets of the City
1955
Director
movieA Girl You Don't Forget
1932
Director
movieThe Upright Sinner
1931
Director
Der Sturm
Director
Writing10
Clavigo
1970
Writer
Der Sturm
Teleplay