Fritz Kortner
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1892-05-12
Deathday 1970-07-22 (78 years old)
Place of Birth Vienna - Austria
Fritz Kortner
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
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Shylock
as Self
as Haushofmeister
as Self
as Mr. P. L. Hoopman
as Professor Mauthner
as Joseph Schwartz
as Franzen
as Vannier
as Kosti
as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
as Maillard
as Bauer
as Thomas Forster
as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
as Minister Peters of Grovnia
as Ahmed Bey
as The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
as Giant
as Arthur Kober
as Abu Hasan
as Dimitri Karamasoff
as Danton
as Captain Kell
as Himself
as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
as Staatsanwalt Hallers
as Konzernpräsident Straaten
as Heinrich Thomas
as Capt. Fernando Vela
as Dr. Karoff
as Dr. Ludwig Schön
as Montaloup
as Der alte Meyhöfer
as Father
as Karsten
as Ludwig van Beethoven
as Der annoncirende Arzt
as lokaj
as Nera
as Dr. Wislizenus
as Urmensch
as The Count
as Krogstadt
as Gangster
as Patriarch Adrian
as Lord Nottingham
as Henning Rinkens
as Der Postbote
as Mendel Hammerstein
as Gianettino
as Sultan
as Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
as Bhirma
as Connetable
as Iwan Becker
as Potemkin
as Pharao Amenhotep
as Professor
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Director
as Director
as Stage Director
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as Director
Writer
as Writer
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as Screenplay
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