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.

Filmography

• 1971Emilia Galotti — Director
• 1970Clavigo — Writer, Stage Director
• 1969Der Kaufmann von Venedig — Shylock
• 1966Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
• 1965Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
• 1964Der eingebildete Kranke — Director
• 1964Leonce und Lena — Director
• 1961Die Sendung der Lysistrata — Director, Writer
• 1958Androcles and the Lion — Director
• Monitor
• 1955Sarajevo — Director
• 1955Secrets of the City — Director, Writer
• 1950Epilogue — Mr. P. L. Hoopman
• 1949The Last Illusion — Professor Mauthner, Writer
• 1948Berlin Express — Otto Franzen
• 1948The Vicious Circle — Joseph Schwartz
• 1947The Brasher Doubloon — Vannier
• 1946Somewhere in the Night — Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
• 1946The Razor's Edge — Kosti
• 1946The Wife of Monte Cristo — Maillard
• 1944The Hitler Gang — Gregor Strasser
• 1943The Purple V — Thomas Forster
• 1943The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler — Bauer, Screenplay
• 1940The Eternal Jew — Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
• 1937Midnight Menace — Minister Peters of Grovnia
• 1935Abdul the Damned — The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
• 1935The Crouching Beast — Ahmed Bey
• 1934Chu Chin Chow — Abu Hasan
• 1934Evensong — Arthur Kober
• 1934Little Friend — Giant
• 1932A Girl You Don't Forget — Writer, Director
• 1931Danton — Danton
• 1931The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov — Dimitri Karamasoff
• 1931The Upright Sinner — Writer, Director
• 1930Dreyfus — Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
• 1930The Love Storm — Captain Kell
• 1930The Other — Staatsanwalt Hallers
• 1929Atlantic — Heinrich Thomas
• 1929Die Frau im Talar
• 1929Die stärkere Macht
• 1929Giftgas — Konzernpräsident Straaten
• 1929Pandora's Box — Dr. Ludwig Schön
• 1929The Ship of Lost Men — Capt. Fernando Vela
• 1929The Somnambulist
• 1929The Woman One Longs For — Dr. Karoff
• 1928Frau Sorge — Der alte Meyhöfer
• 1928Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
• 1928Odette — Frontenac
• 1928The Last Night — Montaloup, Kommissar des Sicherheitsausschusses
• 1927Alpentragödie — Father
• 1927Die Ausgestoßenen
• 1927Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs — Writer
• 1927Draga Maschin
• 1927Mata Hari: the Red Dancer — Graf Bobrykin
• 1927Primanerliebe — Karsten
• 1927The Life of Beethoven — Ludwig van Beethoven
• 1926Should We Be Silent? — Der annoncirende Arzt
• 1924Armes kleines Mädchen
• 1924Dr. Wislizenus — Dr. Wislizenus
• 1924Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża — lokaj
• 1924Moderne Ehen
• 1924The Hands of Orlac — Nera
• 1923Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant — Urmensch
• 1923Nora — Krogstadt
• 1923The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
• 1923Warning Shadows — The Count
• 1922Am Rande der Großstadt
• 1922Am roten Kliff — Henning Rinkens
• 1922Der Graf von Essex — Lord Nottingham
• 1922Peter the Great — Patriarch Adrian
• 1922What Belongs to Darkness — Gangster
• 1921Backstairs — The Postman
• 1921Danton — Minor Role (rumored)
• 1921Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
• 1921Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
• 1921Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha — Bhirma
• 1921Die Verschwörung zu Genua — Gianettino
• 1921Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle — Sultan
• 1921Landstraße und Großstadt — Mendel Hammerstein
• 1921The House on the Moon — Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
• 1920Catherine the Great — Potemkin
• 1920Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand — Iwan Becker
• 1920Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
• 1920Die Verschleierte
• 1920Gerechtigkeit
• 1920Satan — Pharao Amenhotep
• 1920The Brothers Karamazov
• 1920The Night of Queen Isabeau — Connetable
• 1920Va banque
• 1919The Eye of the Buddha
• 1918Der Märtyrer seines Herzens — Ludwig van Beethoven, Writer
• 1918Der Sonnwendhof
• 1918Frauenehre
• 1918Her Other Self — Professor
• Der Sturm — Director, Teleplay

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 1980Kortnergeschichten — Self (archive footage)
• 1977Hitler: A Career — Self (archive footage)
• Film Emigration from Nazi Germany — Self (archive footage)
• Das Profil — Self
• German Film Award — Self
• 1930The Great Desire — Himself