Fritz Kortner
Age: 78 | From: Vienna - Austria
Person Details
Birthday: 1892-05-12 05:49:29
Death: 1970-07-22 05:49:29
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Vienna - Austria
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 72
TV Involvements: 2
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Deutscher Filmpreis (Lola)
(1951) Self
The Razor's Edge
(1946) Kosti
Pandora's Box
(1929) Dr. Ludwig Schön
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
(1975) Self (archive footage)
Berlin Express
(1948) Franzen
The Hands of Orlac
(1924) Nera
Somewhere in the Night
(1946) Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
The Eternal Jew
(1940) (archive footage)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1975 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1969 | Shylock | |
| 1966 | N/A | |
| 1965 | N/A | |
| 1962 | N/A | |
| 1951 | Haushofmeister | |
| Self | ||
| 1950 | Mr. P. L. Hoopman | |
| 1949 | Professor Mauthner | |
| 1948 | Joseph Schwartz | |
| Franzen | ||
| 1947 | Vannier | |
| 1946 | Kosti | |
| Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle | ||
| Maillard | ||
| 1943 | Bauer | |
| Thomas Forster | ||
| 1940 | (archive footage) | |
| 1937 | Minister Peters of Grovnia | |
| 1935 | Ahmed Bey | |
| The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar | ||
| 1934 | Giant | |
| Arthur Kober | ||
| Abu Hasan | ||
| 1931 | Dimitri Karamasoff | |
| Danton | ||
| 1930 | Captain Kell | |
| Himself | ||
| Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus | ||
| Staatsanwalt Hallers | ||
| 1929 | Konzernpräsident Straaten | |
| Heinrich Thomas | ||
| N/A | ||
| Capt. Fernando Vela | ||
| N/A | ||
| Dr. Karoff | ||
| N/A | ||
| Dr. Ludwig Schön | ||
| 1928 | Montaloup | |
| N/A | ||
| Der alte Meyhöfer | ||
| 1927 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Karsten | ||
| N/A | ||
| Ludwig van Beethoven | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1926 | Der annoncirende Arzt | |
| 1924 | lokaj | |
| N/A | ||
| Nera | ||
| Dr. Wislizenus | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1923 | Urmensch | |
| The Count | ||
| Krogstadt | ||
| 1922 | N/A | |
| Gangster | ||
| Patriarch Adrian | ||
| Lord Nottingham | ||
| Henning Rinkens | ||
| 1921 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Der Postbote | ||
| N/A | ||
| Gianettino | ||
| Sultan | ||
| Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler | ||
| Bhirma | ||
| 1920 | Connetable | |
| Iwan Becker | ||
| Potemkin | ||
| N/A | ||
| Pharao Amenhotep | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1919 | N/A | |
| 1918 | N/A | |
| Professor | ||
| Ludwig van Beethoven | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Director | |
| 1970 | Stage Director | |
| 1964 | Director | |
| Director | ||
| 1961 | Director | |
| 1958 | Director | |
| 1955 | Director | |
| Director | ||
| 1933 | Director | |
| 1931 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Writer | |
| 1961 | Writer | |
| 1949 | Writer | |
| 1943 | Screenplay | |
| 1933 | Writer | |
| 1931 | Writer | |
| 1927 | Writer | |
| 1918 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |