Fritz Kortner

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Fritz Kortner

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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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Films Featuring Fritz Kortner

Pandora's Box

19297.5

Nora

192310.0

The Brasher Doubloon

19476.0

Catherine the Great

Catherine the Great

192010.0

The Hands of Orlac

19246.9

Berlin Express

19486.2

The Vicious Circle

19485.8

Die stärkere Macht

Die stärkere Macht

19297.0

Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour

Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour

19289.0

The Razor's Edge

19466.9

Warning Shadows

19236.6

Dr. Wislizenus

19247.5

The Woman One Longs For

19296.0

Backstairs

19216.2

Chu Chin Chow

19345.0

The Ship of Lost Men

19295.8

Abdul the Damned

19356.5

Armes kleines Mädchen

Armes kleines Mädchen

1924

What Belongs to Darkness

What Belongs to Darkness

1922

The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler

19435.2

The House on the Moon

19217.0

Midnight Menace

19377.4

Hitler: A Career

19777.4

Somewhere in the Night

19466.7

The Other

19306.4

Danton

19315.8

Dreyfus

19305.6

The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov

19316.2

The Night of Queen Isabeau

The Night of Queen Isabeau

19208.0

The Last Illusion

19497.3

Epilogue

19506.0

Should We Be Silent?

19266.0

The Last Night

19287.0

The Love Storm

193010.0

Evensong

19346.0

Giftgas

19296.3

Little Friend

19345.0

Kortnergeschichten

Kortnergeschichten

1980

Her Other Self

19188.0

The Great Passion

19307.7

Landstraße und Großstadt

19217.0

The Eternal Jew

19404.7

Der Kaufmann von Venedig

Der Kaufmann von Venedig

19697.5

The Purple V

194310.0

Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter

19208.0

The Crouching Beast

19359.0

Alpentragödie

1927

Mata Hari: the Red Dancer

192710.0

Der Sonnwendhof

1918

Der Märtyrer seines Herzens

Der Märtyrer seines Herzens

19186.0

Die Verschwörung zu Genua

Die Verschwörung zu Genua

192110.0

Frau Sorge

19287.0

Primanerliebe

19277.0

Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle

Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle

19218.0

Die Verschleierte

Die Verschleierte

19209.0

Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand

192010.0

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

196510.0

Am Rande der Großstadt

19229.0

Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant

Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant

19237.0

The Wife of Monte Cristo

19466.4

Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte

19667.0

Am roten Kliff

1922

Va banque

19207.0

Die Brüder Karamasoff

19206.0

Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha

1921

Der Graf von Essex

192210.0

Satan

19207.0

Peter the Great

19227.0

The Somnambulist

192910.0

Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs

19279.0

Das Auge des Buddha

Das Auge des Buddha

1919

Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon

192110.0

Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod

19219.0

Draga Maschin

19277.0

Atlantic

19297.3

Moderne Ehen

192410.0

The Life of Beethoven

19278.3

Die Ausgestoßenen

Die Ausgestoßenen

19278.0

Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża

Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża

1924

Die Frau im Talar

Die Frau im Talar

192910.0

The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss

1923

Gerechtigkeit

19207.0

The Hitler Gang

19446.3

Frauenehre

1918

Danton

19216.5

Bluebeard

19517.5

Odette