Fritz Kortner

Acting · 0.6 popularity

Age

134

Movies

Born: May 12, 1892 – July 22, 1970
From: 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.

Works

87 films

The Razor's Edge

19466.9

The Hands of Orlac

19246.9

Der Sonnwendhof

1918

Pandora's Box

19297.5

Hitler: A Career

19777.4

Somewhere in the Night

19466.7

Bluebeard

19517.5

Die Ausgestoßenen

19278.0

The Eternal Jew

19404.7

Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod

19219.0

The House on the Moon

19217.0

Danton

19216.5

Berlin Express

19486.2

The Life of Beethoven

19278.3

Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand

192010.0

Draga Maschin

19277.0

The Other

19306.4

Dr. Wislizenus

19247.5

Landstraße und Großstadt

19217.0

Little Friend

19345.0

Armes kleines Mädchen

1924

Primanerliebe

19277.0

Nora

192310.0

Frauenehre

1918

The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler

19435.2

Frau Sorge

19287.0

Backstairs

19216.2

Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs

19279.0

The Wife of Monte Cristo

19466.4

The Hitler Gang

19446.3

Peter the Great

19227.0

Die stärkere Macht

19297.0

Der Graf von Essex

192210.0

The Crouching Beast

19359.0

Epilogue

19506.0

Alpentragödie

1927

Am Rande der Großstadt

19229.0

The Brasher Doubloon

19476.0

Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter

19208.0

Danton

19315.8

Chu Chin Chow

19345.0

Va banque

19207.0

The Purple V

194310.0

What Belongs to Darkness

1922

The Great Passion

19307.7

Das Auge des Buddha

1919

Am roten Kliff

1922

Der Märtyrer seines Herzens

19186.0

Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha

1921

Die Brüder Karamasoff

19206.0

Atlantic

19297.3

Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon

192110.0

Warning Shadows

19236.6

Evensong

19346.0

The Woman One Longs For

19296.0

The Vicious Circle

19485.8

Abdul the Damned

19356.5

Her Other Self

19188.0

The Last Illusion

19497.3

Midnight Menace

19377.4

Die Verschwörung zu Genua

192110.0

Should We Be Silent?

19266.0

Moderne Ehen

192410.0

Kortnergeschichten

1980

Odette

2026

Dreyfus

19305.6

The Love Storm

193010.0

Catherine the Great

192010.0

The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov

19316.2

The Night of Queen Isabeau

19208.0

The Ship of Lost Men

19295.8

Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant

19237.0

Die Frau im Talar

192910.0

Mata Hari: the Red Dancer

192710.0

Die Verschleierte

19209.0

Satan

19207.0

Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża

1924

Der Kaufmann von Venedig

19697.5

Giftgas

19296.3

The Somnambulist

192910.0

Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe

196510.0

The Last Night

19287.0

Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour

19289.0

Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle

19218.0

Gerechtigkeit

19207.0

Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte

19667.0

The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss

1923