About

Known credits:
103
Birthday:
1892-05-12
Place of birth:
Vienna - Austria
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Fritz Kortner

Overview

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.

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Known for

Acting
1980 Kortnergeschichten Actor Self (archive footage) N/A
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1977 Hitler: A Career Actor Self (archive footage) 60
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1975 Film Emigration from Nazi Germany Actor Self (archive footage) N/A
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1969 Der Kaufmann von Venedig Actor Shylock 59
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1966 Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte Actor N/A
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1965 Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe Actor N/A
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1951 Bluebeard Actor Haushofmeister 58
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1950 Epilogue Actor Mr. P. L. Hoopman 58
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1949 The Last Illusion Actor Professor Mauthner 59
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1948 The Vicious Circle Actor Joseph Schwartz 58
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1948 Berlin Express Actor Franzen 59
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1947 The Brasher Doubloon Actor Vannier 58
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1946 The Razor's Edge Actor Kosti 60
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1946 Somewhere in the Night Actor Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle 59
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1946 The Wife of Monte Cristo Actor Maillard 59
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1943 The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler Actor Bauer 59
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1943 The Purple V Actor Thomas Forster N/A
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1940 The Eternal Jew Actor Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage) 58
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1937 Midnight Menace Actor Minister Peters of Grovnia 58
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1935 The Crouching Beast Actor Ahmed Bey N/A
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1935 Abdul the Damned Actor The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar 58
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1934 Little Friend Actor Giant 58
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1934 Evensong Actor Arthur Kober N/A
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1934 Chu Chin Chow Actor Abu Hasan 58
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1931 The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov Actor Dimitri Karamasoff 58
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1931 Danton Actor Danton 58
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1930 The Love Storm Actor Captain Kell N/A
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1930 The Great Passion Actor Himself 58
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1930 Dreyfus Actor Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus 58
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1930 The Other Actor Staatsanwalt Hallers 58
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1929 Giftgas Actor Konzernpräsident Straaten 59
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1929 Atlantic Actor Heinrich Thomas 59
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1929 Die stärkere Macht Actor N/A
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1929 The Ship of Lost Men Actor Capt. Fernando Vela 58
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1929 Die Frau im Talar Actor N/A
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1929 The Woman Men Yearn For Actor Dr. Karoff 58
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1929 The Somnambulist Actor N/A
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1929 Pandora's Box Actor Dr. Ludwig Schön 63
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1928 The Last Night Actor Montaloup N/A
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1928 Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour Actor N/A
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1928 Frau Sorge Actor Der alte Meyhöfer N/A
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1927 Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs Actor N/A
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1927 Die Ausgestoßenen Actor N/A
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1927 Alpentragödie Actor Father N/A
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1927 Primanerliebe Actor Karsten N/A
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1927 Mata Hari: the Red Dancer Actor Graf Bobrykin N/A
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1927 The Life of Beethoven Actor Ludwig van Beethoven 59
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1927 Draga Maschin Actor N/A
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1926 Should We Be Silent? Actor Der annoncirende Arzt 59
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1924 Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża Actor lokaj N/A
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1924 Moderne Ehen Actor N/A
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1924 The Hands of Orlac Actor Nera 60
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1924 Dr. Wislizenus Actor Dr. Wislizenus 59
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1924 Armes kleines Mädchen Actor N/A
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1923 Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant Actor Urmensch N/A
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1923 Warning Shadows Actor The Count 59
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1923 Nora Actor Krogstadt N/A
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1923 The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss Actor N/A
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1922 Am Rande der Großstadt Actor N/A
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1922 What Belongs to Darkness Actor Gangster N/A
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1922 Peter the Great Actor Patriarch Adrian N/A
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1922 Der Graf von Essex Actor Lord Nottingham N/A
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1922 Am roten Kliff Actor Henning Rinkens N/A
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1921 Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon Actor N/A
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1921 Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod Actor N/A
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1921 Backstairs Actor Der Postbote 58
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1921 Die Brüder Karamasoff Actor N/A
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1921 Landstraße und Großstadt Actor Mendel Hammerstein N/A
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1921 Die Verschwörung zu Genua Actor Gianettino N/A
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1921 Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle Actor Sultan N/A
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1921 The House on the Moon Actor Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler N/A
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1921 Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha Actor Bhirma N/A
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1920 The Night of Queen Isabeau Actor Connetable N/A
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1920 Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand Actor Iwan Becker N/A
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1920 Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter Actor N/A
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1920 Catherine the Great Actor Potemkin N/A
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1920 Va banque Actor N/A
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1920 Satanas Actor Pharao Amenhotep 58
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1920 Gerechtigkeit Actor N/A
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1920 Die Verschleierte Actor N/A
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1919 Das Auge des Buddha Actor N/A
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1918 Der Sonnwendhof Actor N/A
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1918 Das andere Ich Actor Professor N/A
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1918 Der Märtyrer seines Herzens Actor Ludwig van Beethoven 59
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Directing
1971 Emilia Galotti Directing Director N/A
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1970 Clavigo Directing Stage Director N/A
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1964 Leonce und Lena Directing Director 59
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1964 Der eingebildete Kranke Directing Director N/A
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1961 Die Sendung der Lysistrata Directing Director N/A
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1958 Androcles and the Lion Directing Director N/A
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1955 Sarajevo Directing Director 59
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1955 Secrets of the City Directing Director 59
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1933 A Girl You Don't Forget Directing Director 58
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1931 The Upright Sinner Directing Director N/A
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Writing
1970 Clavigo Writing Writer N/A
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1961 Die Sendung der Lysistrata Writing Writer N/A
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1955 Secrets of the City Writing Writer 59
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1949 The Last Illusion Writing Writer 59
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1943 The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler Writing Screenplay 59
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1933 A Girl You Don't Forget Writing Writer 58
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1931 The Upright Sinner Writing Writer N/A
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1927 Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs Writing Writer N/A
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1918 Der Märtyrer seines Herzens Writing Writer 59
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