Fritz Kortner
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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Filmography (90 Appearances)
Odette
Kortnergeschichten
Hitler: A Career
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
Das Profil
Bluebeard
German Film Award
Epilogue
The Last Illusion
The Vicious Circle
Berlin Express
The Brasher Doubloon
The Razor's Edge
Somewhere in the Night
The Wife of Monte Cristo
The Hitler Gang
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
The Purple V
The Eternal Jew
Midnight Menace
The Crouching Beast
Abdul the Damned
Little Friend
Evensong
Chu Chin Chow
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
Danton
The Love Storm
The Great Desire
Dreyfus
The Other
Giftgas
Atlantic
Die stärkere Macht
The Ship of Lost Men
Die Frau im Talar
The Woman One Longs For
The Somnambulist
Pandora's Box
The Last Night
Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
Frau Sorge
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
Die Ausgestoßenen
Alpentragödie
Primanerliebe
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
The Life of Beethoven
Draga Maschin
Should We Be Silent?
Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
Moderne Ehen
The Hands of Orlac
Dr. Wislizenus
Armes kleines Mädchen
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
Warning Shadows
Nora
The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
Am Rande der Großstadt
What Belongs to Darkness
Peter the Great
Der Graf von Essex
Am roten Kliff
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
Backstairs
Danton
Landstraße und Großstadt
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
The House on the Moon
Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
The Night of Queen Isabeau
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
Catherine the Great
Die Brüder Karamasoff
Va banque
Satan
Gerechtigkeit
Die Verschleierte
Das Auge des Buddha
Der Sonnwendhof
Frauenehre
Her Other Self
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens