Fritz Kortner
Acting
Born: 1892-05-12 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fritz Kortner, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Pandora's Box
Dr. Ludwig Schön
The Hands of Orlac
Nera
The Razor's Edge
Kosti
Hitler: A Career
Self (archive footage)
Somewhere in the Night
Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
Berlin Express
Otto Franzen
The Eternal Jew
Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
The Brasher Doubloon
Vannier
Warning Shadows
The Count
Backstairs
The Postman
The Ship of Lost Men
Capt. Fernando Vela
The Hitler Gang
Gregor Strasser
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
Dimitri Karamasoff
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Bauer
The Woman One Longs For
Dr. Karoff
Danton
Danton
Dreyfus
Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
Epilogue
Mr. P. L. Hoopman
The Vicious Circle
Joseph Schwartz
The Other
Staatsanwalt Hallers
The Wife of Monte Cristo
Maillard
Chu Chin Chow
Abu Hasan
Abdul the Damned
The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
Midnight Menace
Minister Peters of Grovnia
The Last Illusion
Professor Mauthner
Danton
Minor Role (rumored)
Little Friend
Giant
The Great Desire
Himself
Atlantic
Heinrich Thomas
The Life of Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Should We Be Silent?
Der annoncirende Arzt
Evensong
Arthur Kober
Satan
Pharao Amenhotep