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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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1892-05-12
Place of birth
Vienna - Austria
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Cast
Pandora's Box
1929
7.50
Nora
1923
0.00
The Brasher Doubloon
1947
5.90
Catherine the Great
1920
0.00
The Hands of Orlac
1924
6.83
Berlin Express
1948
6.20
The Vicious Circle
1948
5.50
Die stärkere Macht
1929
0.00
The Razor's Edge
1946
6.90
Warning Shadows
1923
6.50
Dr. Wislizenus
1924
5.00
The Woman One Longs For
1929
5.50
Backstairs
1921
6.20
Chu Chin Chow
1934
4.30
The Ship of Lost Men
1929
4.90
Abdul the Damned
1935
5.30
Armes kleines Mädchen
1924
0.00
What Belongs to Darkness
1922
0.00
The House on the Moon
1921
0.00
Midnight Menace
1937
6.50
Hitler: A Career
1977
7.40
Somewhere in the Night
1946
6.70
The Other
1930
5.50
Danton
1931
5.60
Dreyfus
1930
5.60
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
1931
5.88
The Night of Queen Isabeau
1920
0.00
The Last Illusion
1949
6.30
Epilogue
1950
5.80
Should We Be Silent?
1926
5.00
The Last Night
1928
0.00
The Love Storm
1930
0.00
Evensong
1934
5.00
Giftgas
1929
6.00
Little Friend
1934
3.50
Kortnergeschichten
1980
0.00
Das andere Ich
1918
0.00
The Great Passion
1930
6.50
Landstraße und Großstadt
1921
0.00
The Eternal Jew
1940
4.50
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
1969
8.00
The Purple V
1943
0.00
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
1920
0.00
The Crouching Beast
1935
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Alpentragödie
1927
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Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
1927
0.00
Der Sonnwendhof
1918
0.00
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
1918
6.00
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
1921
0.00
Frau Sorge
1928
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Primanerliebe
1927
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Die Verschleierte
1920
0.00
Am Rande der Großstadt
1922
0.00
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
1923
0.00
The Wife of Monte Cristo
1946
5.80
Am roten Kliff
1922
0.00
Va banque
1920
0.00
Die Brüder Karamasoff
1921
0.00
Der Graf von Essex
1922
0.00
Satan
1920
7.00
Peter the Great
1922
0.00
The Somnambulist
1929
0.00
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
1927
0.00
Das Auge des Buddha
1919
0.00
Draga Maschin
1927
0.00
Atlantic
1929
6.50
Moderne Ehen
1924
0.00
The Life of Beethoven
1927
7.50
Die Ausgestoßenen
1927
0.00
Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
1924
0.00
Die Frau im Talar
1929
0.00
The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
1923
0.00
Gerechtigkeit
1920
0.00
The Hitler Gang
1944
6.00
Frauenehre
1918
0.00
Danton
1921
5.70
Bluebeard
1951
7.00