Fritz Kortner
Actor
- Born
- May 12, 1892 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
- Died
- July 22, 1970 (age 78)
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.
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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
Pandora's Box
January 30, 1929
The Hands of Orlac
September 24, 1924
The Razor's Edge
November 19, 1946
Hitler: A Career
July 8, 1977
Somewhere in the Night
June 12, 1946
Berlin Express
May 1, 1948
The Eternal Jew
November 28, 1940
The Brasher Doubloon
February 6, 1947
Warning Shadows
October 16, 1923
Backstairs
December 11, 1921
The Ship of Lost Men
September 17, 1929
The Hitler Gang
April 26, 1944
Acting86
- 1980Kortnergeschichten as Self (archive footage)
- 1977Hitler: A Career as Self (archive footage)
- 1969Der Kaufmann von Venedig as Shylock
- 1966Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
- 1965Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
- 1950Epilogue as Mr. P. L. Hoopman
- 1949The Last Illusion as Professor Mauthner
- 1948The Vicious Circle as Joseph Schwartz
- 1948Berlin Express as Otto Franzen
- 1947The Brasher Doubloon