Fritz Kortner
Acting
🎂 1892-05-12
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.
Cast credits(87)
Self
1951
Dr. Ludwig Schön
1929
Kosti
1946
Self
1962
Self (archive footage)
1977
Thomas Forster
1943
Mr. P. L. Hoopman
1950
Joseph Schwartz
1948
Professor Mauthner
1949
Connetable
1920
Franzen
1948
Gregor Strasser
1944
Haushofmeister
1951
Giant
1934
Self (archive footage)
1980
Shylock
1969
Self (archive footage)
1975
Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
1946
Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
1940
The Count
1923
Ahmed Bey
1935
Graf Bobrykin
1927
Father
1927
Vannier
1947
Nera
1924
Potemkin
1920
Maillard
1946
Patriarch Adrian
1922
Staatsanwalt Hallers
1930
Urmensch
1923
1924
Der annoncirende Arzt
1926
Capt. Fernando Vela
1929
1920
Karsten
1927
Krogstadt
1923
Gangster
1922
1965
Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
1930
Arthur Kober
1934
Himself
1930
Danton
1931
Montaloup
1928
Abu Hasan
1934
Bauer
1943
Minister Peters of Grovnia
1937
Pharao Amenhotep
1920
Der Postbote
1921
1924
Konzernpräsident Straaten
1929
1921
Captain Kell
1930
Ludwig van Beethoven
1927
lokaj
1924
1921
Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
1921
Dr. Karoff
1929
Der alte Meyhöfer
1928
1918
Bhirma
1921
1929
The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
1935
1966
1929
Gianettino
1921
1928
1927
Ludwig van Beethoven
1918
1927
Dimitri Karamasoff
1931
Iwan Becker
1920
Heinrich Thomas
1929
1919
1922
Sultan
1921
Henning Rinkens
1922
1921
Professor
1918
Mendel Hammerstein
1921
1920
1929
Dr. Wislizenus
1924
1920
Lord Nottingham
1922
1920
1927
1923
