Fritz Kortner
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.
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Known For
Acting
1929
asDr. Ludwig Schön
1923
asKrogstadt
1947
asVannier
1920
asPotemkin
1924
asNera
1948
asFranzen
1948
asJoseph Schwartz
1929
as1928
as
1946
asKosti
1923
asThe Count
1924
asDr. Wislizenus
1929
asDr. Karoff
1921
asThe Postman
1934
asAbu Hasan
1929
asCapt. Fernando Vela
1935
asThe Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
1924
as1922
asGangster
1943
asBauer
1921
asJan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
1937
asMinister Peters of Grovnia
1977
asSelf (archive footage)
1946
asAnzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
1930
asStaatsanwalt Hallers
1931
asDanton
1930
asHauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
1931
asDimitri Karamasoff
1920
asConnetable
1949
asProfessor Mauthner
1950
asMr. P. L. Hoopman
1926
asDer annoncirende Arzt
1928
asMontaloup
1930
asCaptain Kell
1934
asArthur Kober
1929
asKonzernpräsident Straaten
1934
asGiant
1980
asSelf (archive footage)
1918
asProfessor
1930
asHimself
1921
asMendel Hammerstein
1940
asDimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
1969
asShylock
1943
asThomas Forster
1920
as
1935
asAhmed Bey
1927
asFather
1927
asGraf Bobrykin
1918
as1918
asLudwig van Beethoven
1921
asGianettino
1928
asDer alte Meyhöfer
1927
asKarsten
1921
asSultan
1920
as
1920
asIwan Becker
1965
as
1922
as1923
asUrmensch
1946
asMaillard
1966
as
1922
asHenning Rinkens
1920
as
1921
as
1921
asBhirma
1922
asLord Nottingham
1920
asPharao Amenhotep
1922
asPatriarch Adrian
1929
as
1927
as1919
as
1921
as
1921
as
1927
as
1929
asHeinrich Thomas
1924
as
1927
asLudwig van Beethoven
1927
as1924
aslokaj
1929
as
1923
as1920
as
1944
asGregor Strasser
1918
as
1921
asMinor Role (rumored)
1951
asHaushofsmeister
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf (archive footage)
Production
Crew
Directing
1961
as1958
as
1931
as
1955
as
1955
as1932
as1970
as
1971
as1964
as1964
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