
Fritz Kortner
Born: 1892-05-12
Place of Birth: Vienna - Austria
Biography
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.
Known For

Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe

Atlantic

Berlin Express

The Razor's Edge

Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte

Little Friend

Danton

Evensong

The Eternal Jew

The Vicious Circle

The Hands of Orlac

Dreyfus

Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand

The Brasher Doubloon

Pandora's Box

The Other

The Last Night

The Somnambulist

Abdul the Damned

Danton

Va banque

Frau Sorge

Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod

Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter

Epilogue

Backstairs

Mata Hari: the Red Dancer

Midnight Menace

Der Graf von Essex

The Hitler Gang

Somewhere in the Night

Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon

Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs

The House on the Moon

Der Sonnwendhof

Die Ausgestoßenen

Hitler: A Career

The Life of Beethoven

Peter the Great

The Crouching Beast

Draga Maschin

The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler

Bluebeard

The Wife of Monte Cristo

Landstraße und Großstadt

The Last Illusion

Chu Chin Chow

Satan

The Love Storm

The Woman One Longs For

Am roten Kliff

Warning Shadows

Die Brüder Karamasoff

The Ship of Lost Men

Should We Be Silent?

The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov

The Great Passion

Am Rande der Großstadt

Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
