Fritz Kortner
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.
Pandora's Box
(Dr. Ludwig Schön)
Nora
(Krogstadt)
The Brasher Doubloon
(Vannier)
Catherine the Great
(Potemkin)
The Hands of Orlac
(Nera)
Berlin Express
(Franzen)
The Vicious Circle
(Joseph Schwartz)
Die stärkere Macht
Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
The Razor's Edge
(Kosti)
Warning Shadows
(The Count)
Dr. Wislizenus
(Dr. Wislizenus)
The Woman One Longs
(Dr. Karoff)
Backstairs
(Der Postbote)
Chu Chin Chow
(Abu Hasan)
The Ship of Lost Men
(Capt. Fernando Vela)
Abdul the Damned
(The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar)
Armes kleines Mädchen
What Belongs to Darkness
(Gangster)
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
(Bauer)
The House on the Moon
(Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler)
Midnight Menace
(Minister Peters of Grovnia)
Hitler: A Career
(Self (archive footage))
Somewhere in the Night
(Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle)
The Other
(Staatsanwalt Hallers)
Danton
(Danton)
Dreyfus
(Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus)
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
(Dimitri Karamasoff)
The Night of Queen Isabeau
(Connetable)
The Last Illusion
(Professor Mauthner)
Epilogue
(Mr. P. L. Hoopman)
Should We Be Silent?
(Der annoncirende Arzt)
The Last Night
(Montaloup)
The Love Storm
(Captain Kell)
Evensong
(Arthur Kober)
Giftgas
(Konzernpräsident Straaten)
Little Friend
(Giant)
Kortnergeschichten
(Self (archive footage))
Das andere Ich
(Professor)
The Great Longing
(Himself)
Landstraße und Großstadt
(Mendel Hammerstein)
The Eternal Jew
(Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage))
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
(Shylock)
The Purple V
(Thomas Forster)
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
The Crouching Beast
(Ahmed Bey)
Alpentragödie
(Father)
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
(Graf Bobrykin)
Der Sonnwendhof
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
(Ludwig van Beethoven)
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
(Gianettino)
Frau Sorge
(Der alte Meyhöfer)
Primanerliebe
(Karsten)
Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
(Sultan)
Die Verschleierte
Bluebeard
(Haushofmeister)
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
(Iwan Becker)
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
(Urmensch)
Am Rande der Großstadt
The Wife of Monte Cristo
(Maillard)
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
Am roten Kliff
(Henning Rinkens)
Va banque
Die Brüder Karamasoff
Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
(Bhirma)
Der Graf von Essex
(Lord Nottingham)
Satan
(Pharao Amenhotep)
The Somnambulist
Peter the Great
(Patriarch Adrian)
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
Das Auge des Buddha
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
Draga Maschin
Atlantic
(Heinrich Thomas)
Moderne Ehen
The Life of Beethoven
(Ludwig van Beethoven)
Die Ausgestoßenen
Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
(lokaj)
Die Frau im Talar
The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
Gerechtigkeit
Deutscher Filmpreis
(Self)
Das Profil
(Self)
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
(Self (archive footage))
The Upright Sinner
(Writer)
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
(Screenplay)
Die Sendung der Lysistrata
(Director)
Androcles and the Lion
(Director)
A Girl You Don't Forget
(Writer)
The Upright Sinner
(Director)
Secrets of the City
(Director)
Sarajevo
(Director)
A Girl You Don't Forget
(Director)
Die Sendung der Lysistrata
(Writer)
Clavigo
(Writer)
Clavigo
(Stage Director)
Emilia Galotti
(Director)
Der eingebildete Kranke
(Director)
The Last Illusion
(Writer)
Leonce und Lena
(Director)
Secrets of the City
(Writer)
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
(Writer)
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
(Writer)