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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Pandora's Box (1929) — Dr. Ludwig Schön
2. The Hands of Orlac (1924) — Nera
3. The Razor's Edge (1946) — Kosti
4. Hitler: A Career (1977) — Self (archive footage)
5. Somewhere in the Night (1946) — Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
6. Berlin Express (1948) — Otto Franzen
7. The Eternal Jew (1940) — Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
8. The Brasher Doubloon (1947) — Vannier
9. Warning Shadows (1923) — The Count
10. Backstairs (1921) — The Postman
11. The Ship of Lost Men (1929) — Capt. Fernando Vela
12. The Hitler Gang (1944) — Gregor Strasser
13. The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov (1931) — Dimitri Karamasoff
14. The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943) — Bauer
15. The Woman One Longs For (1929) — Dr. Karoff
16. Danton (1931) — Danton
17. Dreyfus (1930) — Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
18. Epilogue (1950) — Mr. P. L. Hoopman
19. The Vicious Circle (1948) — Joseph Schwartz
20. The Other (1930) — Staatsanwalt Hallers
21. The Wife of Monte Cristo (1946) — Maillard
22. Chu Chin Chow (1934) — Abu Hasan
23. Abdul the Damned (1935) — The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
24. Midnight Menace (1937) — Minister Peters of Grovnia
25. The Last Illusion (1949) — Professor Mauthner
26. Danton (1921) — Minor Role (rumored)
27. Giftgas (1929) — Konzernpräsident Straaten
28. Little Friend (1934) — Giant
29. The Great Passion (1930) — Himself
30. Atlantic (1929) — Heinrich Thomas
31. The Life of Beethoven (1927) — Ludwig van Beethoven
32. Dr. Wislizenus (1924) — Dr. Wislizenus
33. Should We Be Silent? (1926) — Der annoncirende Arzt
34. Evensong (1934) — Arthur Kober
35. Der Kaufmann von Venedig (1969) — Shylock
36. Der Märtyrer seines Herzens (1918) — Ludwig van Beethoven
37. Satan (1920) — Pharao Amenhotep
38. Bluebeard (1951) — Haushofsmeister
39. Nora (1923) — Krogstadt
40. Catherine the Great (1920) — Potemkin

Directed

1. Sarajevo (1955) — Director
2. The Upright Sinner (1931) — Director
3. Secrets of the City (1955) — Director
4. A Girl You Don't Forget (1932) — Director
5. Leonce und Lena (1964) — Director
6. Die Sendung der Lysistrata (1961) — Director
7. Androcles and the Lion (1958) — Director
8. Der eingebildete Kranke (1964) — Director
9. Emilia Galotti (1971) — Director
10. Der Sturm — Director