Cast & creator
Fritz Kortner
Best known for German Film Award, Monitor, Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
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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film credits
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television credits
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1918–1980 · acting roles
7.6
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (111)
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German Film Award
Self
1951
Monitor
1958
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Self (archive footage)
1975
The Razor's Edge
Kosti
1946
Pandora's Box
Dr. Ludwig Schön
1929
Hitler: A Career
Self (archive footage)
1977
Somewhere in the Night
Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
1946
Berlin Express
Otto Franzen
1948Das Profil
Self
1962
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Iwan Becker
1920
The Wife of Monte Cristo
Maillard
1946
The Hands of Orlac
Nera
1924
Danton
Minor Role (rumored)
1921
Emilia Galotti
Director
1971
Der Sonnwendhof
1918Dr. Wislizenus
Dr. Wislizenus
1924
The Eternal Jew
Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
1940
The Other
Staatsanwalt Hallers
1930
Backstairs
The Postman
1921
The Brasher Doubloon
Vannier
1947
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
Dimitri Karamasoff
1931Die Ausgestoßenen
1927
Frau Sorge
Der alte Meyhöfer
1928Androcles and the Lion
Director
1958
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Bauer
1943The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Screenplay
1943
Odette
Frontenac
1928
Peter the Great
Patriarch Adrian
1922Der Sturm
Director
Der Sturm
Teleplay
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
1920
The House on the Moon
Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
1921
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
1921
Epilogue
Mr. P. L. Hoopman
1950
Little Friend
Giant
1934
The Great Desire
Himself
1930The Night of Queen Isabeau
Connetable
1920
Draga Maschin
1927
Warning Shadows
The Count
1923Primanerliebe
Karsten
1927
The Hitler Gang
Gregor Strasser
1944
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
1927Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
Writer
1927
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
1965Die Verschwörung zu Genua
Gianettino
1921
Secrets of the City
Director
1955Secrets of the City
Writer
1955
Der Graf von Essex
Lord Nottingham
1922Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
Ludwig van Beethoven
1918Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
Writer
1918Das Auge des Buddha
1919
Die Sendung der Lysistrata
Director
1961Die Sendung der Lysistrata
Writer
1961
A Girl You Don't Forget
Writer
1932A Girl You Don't Forget
Director
1932
Evensong
Arthur Kober
1934
Am Rande der Großstadt
1922
The Woman One Longs For
Dr. Karoff
1929
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
Graf Bobrykin
1927What Belongs to Darkness
Gangster
1922
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
1921
Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
Bhirma
1921Frauenehre
1918Nora
Krogstadt
1923
The Ship of Lost Men
Capt. Fernando Vela
1929
The Vicious Circle
Joseph Schwartz
1948Der eingebildete Kranke
Director
1964
Abdul the Damned
The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
1935Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
Sultan
1921
Va banque
1920
Chu Chin Chow
Abu Hasan
1934Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
Urmensch
1923
The Life of Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
1927
Die Brüder Karamasoff
1920Der Kaufmann von Venedig
Shylock
1969Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
1928
The Love Storm
Captain Kell
1930
Landstraße und Großstadt
Mendel Hammerstein
1921Armes kleines Mädchen
1924Alpentragödie
Father
1927Die Frau im Talar
1929
The Upright Sinner
Writer
1931The Upright Sinner
Director
1931The Purple V
Thomas Forster
1943
Danton
Danton
1931
The Last Illusion
Professor Mauthner
1949The Last Illusion
Writer
1949Die stärkere Macht
1929Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
lokaj
1924Clavigo
Writer
1970Clavigo
Stage Director
1970
Should We Be Silent?
Der annoncirende Arzt
1926Kortnergeschichten
Self (archive footage)
1980
Dreyfus
Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
1930Her Other Self
Professor
1918Catherine the Great
Potemkin
1920
Am roten Kliff
Henning Rinkens
1922
The Crouching Beast
Ahmed Bey
1935
Atlantic
Heinrich Thomas
1929
Sarajevo
Director
1955Leonce und Lena
Director
1964
Midnight Menace
Minister Peters of Grovnia
1937Moderne Ehen
1924
The Last Night
Montaloup, Kommissar des Sicherheitsausschusses
1928
Giftgas
Konzernpräsident Straaten
1929
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
1966
The Somnambulist
1929Die Verschleierte
1920
Satan
Pharao Amenhotep
1920Gerechtigkeit
1920