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Fritz Kortner
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... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Kortnergeschichten as Self (archive footage) | 1980-08-13 |
Hitler: A Career as Self (archive footage) | 1977-07-08 |
Der Kaufmann von Venedig as Shylock | 1969-03-02 |
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte | 1966-07-05 |
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe | 1965-05-19 |
Bluebeard as Haushofmeister | 1951-09-27 |
Epilogue as Mr. P. L. Hoopman | 1950-09-28 |
The Last Illusion as Professor Mauthner | 1949-04-19 |
The Vicious Circle as Joseph Schwartz | 1948-07-21 |
Berlin Express as Franzen | 1948-05-01 |
The Brasher Doubloon as Vannier | 1947-02-06 |
The Razor's Edge as Kosti | 1946-11-19 |
Somewhere in the Night as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle | 1946-06-12 |
The Wife of Monte Cristo as Maillard | 1946-04-22 |
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler as Bauer | 1943-09-10 |
The Purple V as Thomas Forster | 1943-03-12 |
The Eternal Jew as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage) | 1940-11-28 |
Midnight Menace as Minister Peters of Grovnia | 1937-05-04 |
The Crouching Beast as Ahmed Bey | 1935-08-29 |
Abdul the Damned as The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar | 1935-08-05 |
Little Friend as Giant | 1934-11-18 |
Evensong as Arthur Kober | 1934-09-03 |
Chu Chin Chow as Abu Hasan | 1934-05-01 |
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov as Dimitri Karamasoff | 1931-02-05 |
Danton as Danton | 1931-01-21 |
The Love Storm as Captain Kell | 1930-11-21 |
The Great Longing as Himself | 1930-08-24 |
Dreyfus as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus | 1930-08-15 |
The Other as Staatsanwalt Hallers | 1930-08-11 |
Giftgas as Konzernpräsident Straaten | 1929-11-13 |
Atlantic as Heinrich Thomas | 1929-10-28 |
Die stärkere Macht | 1929-09-23 |
The Ship of Lost Men as Capt. Fernando Vela | 1929-09-17 |
Die Frau im Talar | 1929-08-22 |
The Woman Men Yearn For as Dr. Karoff | 1929-04-29 |
The Somnambulist | 1929-02-07 |
Pandora's Box as Dr. Ludwig Schön | 1929-01-30 |
The Last Night as Montaloup | 1928-10-11 |
Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour | 1928-09-06 |
Frau Sorge as Der alte Meyhöfer | 1928-02-07 |
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs | 1927-12-16 |
Die Ausgestoßenen | 1927-11-01 |
Alpentragödie as Father | 1927-09-19 |
Primanerliebe as Karsten | 1927-06-02 |
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer | 1927-05-02 |
The Life of Beethoven as Ludwig van Beethoven | 1927-02-18 |
Draga Maschin | 1927-01-01 |
Should We Be Silent? as Der annoncirende Arzt | 1926-04-05 |
Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża as lokaj | 1924-12-27 |
Moderne Ehen | 1924-12-10 |
The Hands of Orlac as Nera | 1924-09-24 |
Dr. Wislizenus as Dr. Wislizenus | 1924-03-03 |
Armes kleines Mädchen | 1924-01-01 |
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant as Urmensch | 1923-11-01 |
Warning Shadows as The Count | 1923-10-16 |
Nora as Krogstadt | 1923-02-02 |
The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss | 1923-01-01 |
Am Rande der Großstadt | 1922-12-12 |
What Belongs to Darkness as Gangster | 1922-12-08 |
Peter the Great as Patriarch Adrian | 1922-11-02 |
Der Graf von Essex as Lord Nottingham | 1922-09-14 |
Am roten Kliff as Henning Rinkens | 1922-04-29 |
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon | 1921-12-29 |
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod | 1921-12-29 |
Backstairs as Der Postbote | 1921-12-11 |
Die Brüder Karamasoff | 1921-07-20 |
Landstraße und Großstadt as Mendel Hammerstein | 1921-04-22 |
Die Verschwörung zu Genua as Gianettino | 1921-02-25 |
Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle as Sultan | 1921-02-07 |
The House on the Moon as Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler | 1921-01-28 |
Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha as Bhirma | 1921-01-20 |
The Night of Queen Isabeau as Connetable | 1920-11-18 |
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand as Iwan Becker | 1920-11-12 |
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter | 1920-11-11 |
Catherine the Great as Potemkin | 1920-10-22 |
Va banque | 1920-06-27 |
Satanas as Pharao Amenhotep | 1920-01-30 |
Die Verschleierte | 1920-01-01 |
Das Auge des Buddha | 1919-03-21 |
Der Sonnwendhof | 1918-11-15 |
Das andere Ich as Professor | 1918-09-06 |
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens as Ludwig van Beethoven | 1918-02-08 |