Fritz Kortner

Known for ActingBorn 1892-05-12Died 1970-07-22Vienna, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

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

The Purple V

Leonce und Lena

A Girl You Don't Forget

The Love Storm

The Somnambulist

Die Frau im Talar

Mata Hari: the Red Dancer

Moderne Ehen

Nora

Der Graf von Essex

Die Verschwörung zu Genua

Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon

Catherine the Great

Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand

Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

Die Sendung der Lysistrata

The Crouching Beast

Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour

Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs

Am Rande der Großstadt

Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod

Die Verschleierte

Secrets of the City

Clavigo

The Life of Beethoven

The Upright Sinner

Die Ausgestoßenen

Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle

Hitler: A Career

The Night of Queen Isabeau

Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter

Der Kaufmann von Venedig

Her Other Self

Bluebeard

The Great Passion

Pandora's Box

Midnight Menace

Dr. Wislizenus

The Last Illusion

Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte

Der eingebildete Kranke

Atlantic

Androcles and the Lion

Sarajevo

The Razor's Edge

Die stärkere Macht

The Last Night