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person_profile-Fritz Kortner

Fritz Kortner Died at age: 78

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Fritz Kortner

Date of Birth:

May 12, 1892

Country of birth:

Vienna - Austria

Died:

Jul 22, 1970

Biography of

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.

    Description above from the Wikipedia article Fritz Kortner, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Filmography of

Fritz Kortner

Found 47 Movies in total

Hitler: A Career

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1977

... 1966

... 1965

Bluebeard

Haushofmeister ( Actor )

... 1951

Epilogue

Mr. P. L. Hoopman ( Actor )

... 1950

The Last Illusion

Professor Mauthner ( Actor )

Writer

... 1949

The Vicious Circle

Joseph Schwartz ( Actor )

... 1948

Berlin Express

Franzen ( Actor )

... 1948

The Brasher Doubloon

Vannier ( Actor )

... 1947

The Razor's Edge

Kosti ( Actor )

... 1946

Somewhere in the Night

Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle ( Actor )

... 1946

The Wife of Monte Cristo

Maillard ( Actor )

... 1946

The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler

Bauer ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1943

The Eternal Jew

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1940

Midnight Menace

Minister Peters of Grovnia ( Actor )

... 1937

The Crouching Beast

Ahmed Bey ( Actor )

... 1935

Abdul the Damned

The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar ( Actor )

... 1935

Little Friend

Giant ( Actor )

... 1934

Evensong

Arthur Kober ( Actor )

... 1934

Chu Chin Chow

Abu Hasan ( Actor )

... 1934

The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov

Dimitri Karamasoff ( Actor )

... 1931

Danton

Danton ( Actor )

... 1931

The Love Storm

Captain Kell ( Actor )

... 1930

The Great Longing

Himself ( Actor )

... 1930

Dreyfus

Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus ( Actor )

... 1930

The Other

Staatsanwalt Hallers ( Actor )

... 1930

Atlantic

Heinrich Thomas ( Actor )

... 1929

The Ship of Lost Men

Capt. Fernando Vela ( Actor )

... 1929

The Woman One Longs

Dr. Karoff ( Actor )

... 1929

... 1929

Pandora's Box

Dr. Ludwig Schön ( Actor )

... 1929

The Last Night

Montaloup ( Actor )

... 1928

Frau Sorge

Der alte Meyhöfer ( Actor )

... 1928

... 1927

The Life of Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven ( Actor )

... 1927

Should We Be Silent?

Der annoncirende Arzt ( Actor )

... 1926

The Hands of Orlac

Nera ( Actor )

... 1924

Warning Shadows

The Count ( Actor )

... 1923

... 1923

Peter the Great

Patriarch Adrian ( Actor )

... 1922

Der Graf von Essex

Lord Nottingham ( Actor )

... 1922

Backstairs

Der Postbote ( Actor )

... 1921

Landstraße und Großstadt

Mendel Hammerstein ( Actor )

... 1921

... 1921

... 1920

... 1920

Satan

Pharao Amenhotep ( Actor )

... 1920