Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1892-05-12
Day of Death
1970-07-22
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
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.
Filmography (86)
Kortnergeschichten
1980
Hitler: A Career
1977Der Kaufmann von Venedig
1969
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
1966
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
1965
Bluebeard
1951
Epilogue
1950
The Last Illusion
1949
The Vicious Circle
1948
Berlin Express
1948
The Brasher Doubloon
1947
The Razor's Edge
1946
Somewhere in the Night
1946
The Wife of Monte Cristo
1946
