1892-05-12 Vienna - Austria
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 | Self (archive footage) | 1980-08-13 |
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Hitler - Eine Karriere | Self (archive footage) | 1977-07-08 |
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Der Kaufmann von Venedig | Shylock | 1969-03-02 |
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Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte | 1966-07-05 | |
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Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe | 1965-05-19 | |
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Barbe-Bleue | Haushofmeister | 1951-09-27 |
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Epilog - Das Geheimnis der Orplid | Mr. P. L. Hoopman | 1950-09-28 |
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Der Ruf | Professor Mauthner | 1949-04-19 |
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The Vicious Circle | Joseph Schwartz | 1948-07-21 |
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Berlin Express | Franzen | 1948-05-01 |
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The Brasher Doubloon | Vannier | 1947-02-06 |
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The Razor's Edge | Kosti | 1946-11-19 |
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The Wife of Monte Cristo | Maillard | 1946-04-22 |
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Somewhere in the Night | Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle | 1946-06-12 |
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The Purple V | Thomas Forster | 1943-03-12 |
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The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler | Bauer | 1943-09-10 |
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Der ewige Jude | Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage) | 1940-11-28 |
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Midnight Menace | Minister Peters of Grovnia | 1937-05-04 |
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Abdul the Damned | The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar | 1935-08-05 |
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The Crouching Beast | Ahmed Bey | 1935-08-29 |
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Chu Chin Chow | Abu Hasan | 1934-05-01 |
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Little Friend | Giant | 1934-11-18 |
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Evensong | Arthur Kober | 1934-09-03 |
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Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff | Dimitri Karamasoff | 1931-02-05 |
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Danton | Danton | 1931-01-21 |
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Menschen im Käfig | Captain Kell | 1930-11-21 |
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Der Andere | Staatsanwalt Hallers | 1930-08-11 |
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Die große Sehnsucht | Himself | 1930-08-24 |
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Dreyfus | Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus | 1930-08-15 |
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Die stärkere Macht | 1929-09-23 | |
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Die Frau im Talar | 1929-08-22 | |
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Atlantic | Heinrich Thomas | 1929-10-28 |
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Somnambul | 1929-02-07 | |
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Die Büchse der Pandora | Dr. Ludwig Schön | 1929-01-30 |
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Giftgas | Konzernpräsident Straaten | 1929-11-13 |
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Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt | Dr. Karoff | 1929-04-29 |
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Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen | Capt. Fernando Vela | 1929-09-17 |
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Revolutionshochzeit | Montaloup | 1928-10-11 |
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Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour | 1928-09-06 | |
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Frau Sorge | Der alte Meyhöfer | 1928-02-07 |
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Primanerliebe | Karsten | 1927-06-02 |
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Alpentragödie | Father | 1927-09-19 |
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Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin | Graf Bobrykin | 1927-05-02 |
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Die Ausgestoßenen | 1927-11-01 | |
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Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs | 1927-12-16 | |
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Draga Maschin | 1927-01-01 | |
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Das Leben des Beethoven | Ludwig van Beethoven | 1927-02-18 |
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Dürfen wir schweigen? | Der annoncirende Arzt | 1926-04-05 |
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Orlacs Hände | Nera | 1924-09-24 |
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Moderne Ehen | 1924-12-10 | |
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Armes kleines Mädchen | 1924-01-01 | |
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Dr. Wislizenus | Dr. Wislizenus | 1924-03-03 |
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Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża | lokaj | 1924-12-27 |
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Nora | Krogstadt | 1923-02-02 |
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Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant | Urmensch | 1923-11-01 |
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Le Revenant au baiser mortel | 1923-01-01 | |
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Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination | The Count | 1923-10-16 |
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Der Graf von Essex | Lord Nottingham | 1922-09-14 |
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Peter der Große | Patriarch Adrian | 1922-11-02 |
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Am Rande der Großstadt | 1922-12-12 | |
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Die Finsternis und ihr Eigentum | Gangster | 1922-12-08 |
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Am roten Kliff | Henning Rinkens | 1922-04-29 |
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Hintertreppe | Der Postbote | 1921-12-11 |
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Landstraße und Großstadt | Mendel Hammerstein | 1921-04-22 |
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Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon | 1921-12-29 | |
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Die Brüder Karamasoff | 1921-07-20 | |
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Die Verschwörung zu Genua | Gianettino | 1921-02-25 |
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Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha | Bhirma | 1921-01-20 |
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Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle | Sultan | 1921-02-07 |
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Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod | 1921-12-29 | |
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Das Haus zum Mond | Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler | 1921-01-28 |
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Gerechtigkeit | 1920-01-01 | |
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Die Nacht der Königin Isabeau | Connetable | 1920-11-18 |
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Satanas | Pharao Amenhotep | 1920-01-30 |
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Catherine the Great | Potemkin | 1920-10-22 |
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Die Verschleierte | 1920-01-01 | |
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Va banque | 1920-06-27 | |
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Weltbrand | Iwan Becker | 1920-11-12 |
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Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter | 1920-11-11 | |
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Das Auge des Buddha | 1919-03-21 | |
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Der Märtyrer seines Herzens | Ludwig van Beethoven | 1918-02-08 |
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Das andere Ich | Professor | 1918-09-06 |
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Der Sonnwendhof | 1918-11-15 |
