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 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.

Most Known For

German Film Award

as Self

Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand

as Iwan Becker

Nora

as Krogstadt

Va banque

Dr. Wislizenus

as Dr. Wislizenus

Backstairs

as The Postman

Little Friend

as Giant

Pandora's Box

as Dr. Ludwig Schön

The Hands of Orlac

as Nera

Frau Sorge

as Der alte Meyhöfer

The Razor's Edge

as Kosti

Hitler: A Career

as Self (archive footage)

Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

as Self (archive footage)

Berlin Express

as Franzen

Alpentragödie

as Father

Primanerliebe

as Karsten

The Eternal Jew

as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)

Somewhere in the Night

as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle

The Other

as Staatsanwalt Hallers

Danton

as Minor Role (rumored)