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Born:
1892-05-12
Birthplace:
Vienna - Austria
Credits:
89 Total Roles
Fritz Kortner
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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.
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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
Pandora's Box
Dr. Ludwig Schön
The Hands of Orlac
Nera
The Razor's Edge
Kosti
Hitler: A Career
Self (archive footage)
Somewhere in the Night
Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
Berlin Express
Franzen
The Eternal Jew
Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
Warning Shadows
The Count
Full Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Kortnergeschichten MOVIE | Self (archive footage) |
| 1977 | Hitler: A Career MOVIE | Self (archive footage) |
| 1975 | Film Emigration from Nazi Germany TV | Self (archive footage) |
| 1969 | Der Kaufmann von Venedig MOVIE | Shylock |
| 1966 | Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte MOVIE | Self |
| 1965 | Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe MOVIE | Self |
| 1962 | Das Profil TV | Self |
| 1951 | Bluebeard MOVIE | Haushofsmeister |
| 1951 | German Film Award TV | Self |
| 1950 | Epilogue MOVIE | Mr. P. L. Hoopman |