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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Berlin Express | Franzen | 1948-05-01 |
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The Vicious Circle | Joseph Schwartz | 1948-07-21 |
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The Brasher Doubloon | Vannier | 1947-02-06 |
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Somewhere in the Night | Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle | 1946-06-12 |
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The Wife of Monte Cristo | Maillard | 1946-04-22 |
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The Razor's Edge | Kosti | 1946-11-19 |
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The Hitler Gang | Gregor Strasser | 1944-04-26 |
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The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler | Bauer | 1943-09-10 |
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The Purple V | Thomas Forster | 1943-03-12 |
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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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The Crouching Beast | Ahmed Bey | 1935-08-29 |
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Abdul the Damned | The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar | 1935-08-05 |
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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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Danton | Danton | 1931-01-21 |
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Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff | Dimitri Karamasoff | 1931-02-05 |
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Die große Sehnsucht | Himself | 1930-08-24 |
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Menschen im Käfig | Captain Kell | 1930-11-21 |
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Dreyfus | Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus | 1930-08-15 |
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Der Andere | Staatsanwalt Hallers | 1930-08-11 |
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Somnambul | 1929-02-07 | |
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Die stärkere Macht | 1929-09-23 | |
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Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt | Dr. Karoff | 1929-04-29 |
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Giftgas | Konzernpräsident Straaten | 1929-11-13 |
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Atlantic | Heinrich Thomas | 1929-10-28 |
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Die Büchse der Pandora | Dr. Ludwig Schön | 1929-01-30 |
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Die Frau im Talar | 1929-08-22 | |
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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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Draga Maschin | 1927-01-01 | |
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Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs | 1927-12-16 | |
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Alpentragödie | Father | 1927-09-19 |
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Primanerliebe | Karsten | 1927-06-02 |
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Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin | Graf Bobrykin | 1927-05-02 |
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Das Leben des Beethoven | Ludwig van Beethoven | 1927-02-18 |
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Die Ausgestoßenen | 1927-11-01 | |
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Dürfen wir schweigen? | Der annoncirende Arzt | 1926-04-05 |
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Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża | lokaj | 1924-12-27 |
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Dr. Wislizenus | Dr. Wislizenus | 1924-03-03 |
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Armes kleines Mädchen | 1924-01-01 | |
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Orlacs Hände | Nera | 1924-09-24 |
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Moderne Ehen | 1924-12-10 | |
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Nora | Krogstadt | 1923-02-02 |
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Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination | The Count | 1923-10-16 |
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Le Revenant au baiser mortel | 1923-01-01 | |
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Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant | Urmensch | 1923-11-01 |
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Am roten Kliff | Henning Rinkens | 1922-04-29 |
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Peter der Große | Patriarch Adrian | 1922-11-02 |
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Die Finsternis und ihr Eigentum | Gangster | 1922-12-08 |
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Am Rande der Großstadt | 1922-12-12 | |
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Der Graf von Essex | Lord Nottingham | 1922-09-14 |
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Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon | 1921-12-29 | |
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Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod | 1921-12-29 | |
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Die Verschwörung zu Genua | Gianettino | 1921-02-25 |
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Landstraße und Großstadt | Mendel Hammerstein | 1921-04-22 |
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Hintertreppe | Der Postbote | 1921-12-11 |
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Das Haus zum Mond | Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler | 1921-01-28 |
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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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Die Brüder Karamasoff | 1921-07-20 | |
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Die Nacht der Königin Isabeau | Connetable | 1920-11-18 |
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Gerechtigkeit | 1920-01-01 | |
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Satanas | Pharao Amenhotep | 1920-01-30 |
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Va banque | 1920-06-27 | |
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Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter | 1920-11-11 | |
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Die Verschleierte | 1920-01-01 | |
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Weltbrand | Iwan Becker | 1920-11-12 |
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Catherine the Great | Potemkin | 1920-10-22 |
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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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Der Sonnwendhof | 1918-11-15 | |
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Das andere Ich | Professor | 1918-09-06 |
