Fritz Kortner
Known for: Acting
Born: May 12, 1892
Died: July 22, 1970
Place of birth: Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
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.
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Filmography
98 movies · 3 TV shows, newest first
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Kortnergeschichten
1980
7.4
Hitler: A Career
1977
9.0
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
1975
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Emilia Galotti
19718.0
Clavigo
19707.5
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
1969
7.0
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
1966
10.0
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
19659.8
Leonce und Lena
19647.0
Der eingebildete Kranke
1964NR
Das Profil
1962
9.0
Die Sendung der Lysistrata
19617.0
Androcles and the Lion
1958
7.0
Sarajevo
1955
8.5
Secrets of the City
1955
7.5
Bluebeard
19516.0
German Film Award
1951
6.0
Epilogue
1950
7.3
The Last Illusion
1949
5.8
The Vicious Circle
1948
6.3
Berlin Express
1948
6.0
The Brasher Doubloon
1947
6.9
The Razor's Edge
1946
6.7
Somewhere in the Night
1946
6.4
The Wife of Monte Cristo
1946
6.3
The Hitler Gang
1944
5.2
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
194310.0
The Purple V
1943
4.7
The Eternal Jew
1940
7.4
Midnight Menace
1937
9.0
The Crouching Beast
1935
6.5
Abdul the Damned
1935
5.0
Little Friend
1934
6.0
Evensong
1934
5.0
Chu Chin Chow
1934
10.0
A Girl You Don't Forget
1932
8.0
The Upright Sinner
1931
6.2
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
1931
5.8
Danton
1931
10.0
The Love Storm
1930
7.7
The Great Desire
1930
5.6
Dreyfus
1930
6.4
The Other
19306.3
Giftgas
1929
7.3
Atlantic
19297.0
Die stärkere Macht
1929
5.8
The Ship of Lost Men
192910.0
Die Frau im Talar
1929
6.0
The Woman One Longs For
1929
10.0
The Somnambulist
1929
7.4
Pandora's Box
1929
7.0
The Last Night
19289.0
Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
1928
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Odette
1928
7.0
Frau Sorge
1928
9.0
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
19278.0
Die Ausgestoßenen
1927NR
Alpentragödie
19277.0
Primanerliebe
1927
10.0
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
1927
8.3
The Life of Beethoven
1927
7.0
Draga Maschin
1927
6.0
Should We Be Silent?
1926NR
Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
192410.0
Moderne Ehen
1924
6.9
The Hands of Orlac
19247.5
Dr. Wislizenus
1924NR
Armes kleines Mädchen
19247.0
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
1923
6.6
Warning Shadows
192310.0
Nora
1923
NR
The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
1923
9.0
Am Rande der Großstadt
1922NR
What Belongs to Darkness
1922
7.0
Peter the Great
1922
10.0
Der Graf von Essex
1922
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Am roten Kliff
1922
10.0
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
1921
9.0
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
1921
6.2
Backstairs
1921
6.5
Danton
1921
7.0
Landstraße und Großstadt
192110.0
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
19218.0
Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
1921
7.0
The House on the Moon
1921
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Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
19218.0
The Night of Queen Isabeau
1920
10.0
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
1920
8.0
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
192010.0
Catherine the Great
1920
6.0
Die Brüder Karamasoff
1920
7.0
Va banque
1920
7.0
Satan
19209.0
Die Verschleierte
19207.0
Gerechtigkeit
1920NR
Das Auge des Buddha
1919
NR
Der Sonnwendhof
1918NR
Frauenehre
19188.0
Her Other Self
19186.0
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
1918NR
Der Sturm
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