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Fritz Kortner
Actor, Writer, Director, Additional Credits
Born May 12, 1892Died July 22, 1970 (78 years)
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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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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Filmography
| 1951 | Bluebeard · as Haushofsmeister |
| 1951 | Barbe-Bleue · as Haushofmeister |
| 1950 | Epilogue · as Mr. P. L. Hoopman |
| 1949 | Der Ruf · as Professor Mauthner |
| 1948 | The Vicious Circle · as Joseph Schwartz |
| 1948 | Berlin Express · as Franzen |
| 1947 | The Brasher Doubloon · as Vannier |
| 1946 | The Razor's Edge · as Kosti |
| 1946 | Somewhere in the Night · as Anzelmo Aka Dr. Oracle |
| 1946 | The Wife of Monte Cristo · as Maillard |
| 1944 | The Hitler Gang · as Gregor Strasser |
| 1943 | The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler · as Bauer |
| 1940 | The Eternal Jew · as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive Footage) |
| 1937 | Bombs Over London · as Minister Peters Of Grovnia |
| 1935 | Abdul the Damned · as The Sultan, Abdul Hamid Ii & Kislar |
| 1934 | Evensong · as Arthur Kober |
| 1934 | Little Friend · as Giant |
| 1934 | Chu Chin Chow · as Abu Hasan |
| 1931 | Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff · as Dimitri Karamasoff |
| 1931 | Danton · as Danton |
| 1930 | The Dreyfus Case · as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus |
| 1930 | Der Andere · as Staatsanwalt Hallers |
| 1929 | |
| 1929 | The Ship of Lost Men · as Capt. Fernando Vela |
| 1929 | Atlantik · as Heinrich Thomas |
| 1929 | Three Loves · as Dr. Karoff |
| 1929 | Pandora's Box · as Dr. Ludwig Schön |
| 1927 | Das Leben des Beethoven · as Ludwig Van Beethoven |
| 1924 | The Hands of Orlac · as Nera |
| 1924 | Wenn Männer schweigen · as Forsthüter Mathias Eger |
| 1923 | Warning Shadows · as The Count |
| 1923 | Nora · as Krogstadt |
| 1921 | Hintertreppe · as Der Postbote |
| 1921 | Danton · as Minor Role |
| 1919 | Satanas · as Pharao Amenhotep |
| 1917 | Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha - 2. Teil · as Bruder Von Maharadscha Bhima |
| 1916 | Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha · as Bhirma |
| 1915 | Das Geheimnis von D.14 · as Cast |