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.
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Fritz Kortner Biography / Wiki
| Name | Fritz Kortner |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Vienna – Austria |
| Date of Birth | 1892-05-12 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 78 |
| Deathday | 1970-07-22 |
Fritz Kortner Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Abdul the Damned | The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar | 1935-08-05 | Set amid the turbulence of the Young Turk movement within the dying Ottoman Empire, Abdul the Damned was among the first films directed in Britain by … |
| Der Andere | Staatsanwalt Hallers | 1930-08-11 | … |
| Danton | Danton | 1931-01-21 | This pre-WW II German costume drama chronicles the French Revolution with a particular focus upon Danton, Robespierre, and Marat. It depicts the drama… |
| Dreyfus | Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus | 1930-08-15 | In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is dr… |
| The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov | Dimitri Karamasoff | 1931-02-05 | Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father; based on Dostoevsky’s novel…. |
| The Last Illusion | Professor Mauthner | 1949-04-19 | Professor Mauthner, after many years of exile (having emigrated in 1933 to the USA), returns to Germany in 1948. He can in fact return to his teaching… |
| Der Kaufmann von Venedig | Shylock | 1969-03-02 | … |
| The Crouching Beast | Ahmed Bey | 1935-08-29 | In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to pas… |
| Der Märtyrer seines Herzens | Ludwig van Beethoven | 1918-02-08 | The film traces the individual stages in the life of Ludwig van Beethoven…. |
| Primanerliebe | Karsten | 1927-06-02 | “First Love” – Karsten, a college boy, oppressed to the point of suicide by harsh teachers, calls on the girl he loves Ellen. He finds her about to be… |
| Frau Sorge | Der alte Meyhöfer | 1928-02-07 | … |
| Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe | 1965-05-19 | This documentation of a Kortner stage rehearsal shows in detail and fascinatingly how Kortner developed psychological tensions with meticulous precisi… | |
| Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte | 1966-07-05 | Film by Syberberg…. | |
| Die Brüder Karamasoff | 1921-07-20 | … | |
| Va banque | 1920-06-27 | … | |
| Am roten Kliff | Henning Rinkens | 1922-04-29 | … |
| Satanas | Pharao Amenhotep | 1920-01-30 | … |
| The Somnambulist | 1929-02-07 | Originally named “The Clairvoyant” presenting the many talents of parapsychologist Elsbeth Günther-Geffers. First banned, later extensively reworked…. | |
| Das Auge des Buddha | 1919-03-21 | … | |
| Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil – Mensch und Mammon | 1921-12-29 | … | |
| Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil – Lauernder Tod | 1921-12-29 | … | |
| Atlantik | Heinrich Thomas | 1929-10-28 | German-language version of the film Atlantic (1929)…. |
| Das Leben des Beethoven | Ludwig van Beethoven | 1927-02-18 | … |
| Die Ausgestoßenen | 1927-11-01 | … | |
| Pandora’s Box | Dr. Ludwig Schön | 1929-01-30 | Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publish… |
| The Vicious Circle | Joseph Schwartz | 1948-07-21 | In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by villagers. He manages to convince all t… |
| Warning Shadows | The Count | 1923-10-16 | During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the mar… |
| Backstairs | Der Postbote | 1921-12-11 | In a poor neighborhood of a big city, a crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in his building. However, she is in love with a wealthy and … |
| The Ship of Lost Men | Capt. Fernando Vela | 1929-09-17 | A young doctor gets stuck on a ship after treating an injured first mate. Later, he rescues a woman from plane wreckage, and with the help of the cook… |
| The Night of Queen Isabeau | Connetable | 1920-11-18 | The film depicts the marriage between the mad Charles VI of France and his wife Queen Isabeau…. |
| The Love Storm | Captain Kell | 1930-11-21 | … |
| Evensong | Arthur Kober | 1934-09-03 | Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba…… |
| Das andere Ich | Professor | 1918-09-06 | A professor discovers a way to separate the soul from the body…. |
| Mata Hari: the Red Dancer | 1927-05-02 | Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin (English: Mata Hari: The Red Dancer), often shortened on release to Mata Hari, is a 1927 German silent drama film direct… | |
| Der Sonnwendhof | 1918-11-15 | … | |
| Die Verschwörung zu Genua | Gianettino | 1921-02-25 | … |
| Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle | Sultan | 1921-02-07 | … |
| Der Graf von Essex | Lord Nottingham | 1922-09-14 | … |
| Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs | 1927-12-16 | … | |
| Draga Maschin | 1927-01-01 | … | |
| Armes kleines Mädchen | 1924-01-01 | … | |
| The Woman Men Yearn For | Dr. Karoff | 1929-04-29 | After a chance meeting at a train station, Henry and Stascha, unhappy with their circumstances, are determined to leave and be together…. |
| Chu Chin Chow | Abu Hasan | 1934-05-01 | Musical retelling of the “Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves” Arabian Nights tale…. |
| Bombs Over London | Minister Peters of Grovnia | 1937-05-04 | When a reporter is killed under mysterious circumstances, the political cartoonist on his paper begins to investigate on his own. He finds that a veng… |
| The Purple V | Thomas Forster | 1943-03-12 | German expatriate Fritz Kortner plays the largest role, as an anti-Nazi schoolmaster who helps a downed American flyer (John Archer) reached Allied li… |
| Die Verschleierte | 1920-01-01 | … | |
| Am Rande der Großstadt | 1922-12-12 | … | |
| Kiedy kobieta zdradza meza | 1924-12-27 | … | |
| Nora | Krogstadt | 1923-02-02 | Adaptation of A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen…. |
| The House on the Moon | Jan van Haag – Wachsfigurenhändler | 1921-01-28 | The House on the Moon… |
| The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler | Bauer | 1943-09-10 | A man who is a dead ringer for Adolf Hitler plans to murder him and take over his identity…. |
| Giftgas | Konzernpräsident Straaten | 1929-11-13 | Arnold Horn, a young idealistic chemist, discovers a compound that can be used for the production of an effective deadly poisonous gas. Against his w… |
| The Eternal Jew | (archive footage) | 1940-11-28 | A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland … |
| Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand | Iwan Becker | 1920-11-12 | Weltbrand is the first part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe…. |
| Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha | Bhirma | 1921-01-20 | The Maharaja of Odhapur goes on a trip to Europe and meet the young dancer Ellen Esmond. In her London accommodation, the Savoy Hotel, the Indian prin… |
| Die Frau im Talar | 1929-08-22 | … | |
| The Brasher Doubloon | Vannier | 1947-02-06 | Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband’s collection. Marlow… |
| Should We Be Silent? | Der annoncirende Arzt | 1926-04-05 | … |
| The Last Night | Montaloup | 1928-10-11 | A film by A. W. Sandberg…. |
| Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant | Urmensch | 1923-11-01 | … |
| Dr. Wislizenus | Dr. Wislizenus | 1924-03-03 | Deep in the forest lives the bitter Dr. Wislizenus, whose childhood sweetheart Maria committed suicide ten years ago. The visit of a childhood friend,… |
| Somewhere in the Night | Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle | 1946-06-12 | George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder ca… |
| Epilogue | Mr. P. L. Hoopman | 1950-09-28 | The reporter Peter Zabel stumbles upon the sinking of the luxury yacht Orplid in Hamburg on August 14, 1949. The ship went down with a wedding party r… |
| Moderne Ehen | 1924-12-10 | … | |
| The Hands of Orlac | Nera | 1924-09-24 | A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer…. |
| The Wife of Monte Cristo | Maillard | 1946-04-22 | In this sequel to the original story, Monte Cristo count Edmund Dantes (Martin Kosleck) returns to Paris to get revenge but soon finds himself pursued… |
| Peter the Great | Patriarch Adrian | 1922-11-02 | … |
| BerlÃn Express | Franzen | 1948-05-01 | Robert Ryan leads a group of Allied agents fighting an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe…. |
| The Razor’s Edge | Kosti | 1946-11-19 | An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop… |
| Bluebeard | Haushofmeister | 1951-09-27 | Just before wowing international critics and moviegoers with his adventure romp Fanfan la Tulipe, director Christian-Jaque dashed off the lampoonish B… |
| Little Friend | Giant | 1934-11-18 | A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents’ scandalous divorce case…. |
| The Great Longing | Himself | 1930-08-24 | During lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Maria Paudler and Luis Trenker are chatting. Eva von L… |
Fritz Kortner Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Die Sendung der Lysistrata | Director | 1961-02-10 | Persuaded by Lysistrata, the women of Athens agree to withdraw all sexual favours from the men until the men agree to end to war with Sparta…. |
| Androcles and the Lion | Director | 1958-05-14 | … |
| The Upright Sinner | Director | 1931-10-21 | Leopold Pichler is a very orderly and trustworthy chief cashier who is asked by his boss to get a large sum of money from the bank which the boss urge… |
| A Girl You Don’t Forget | Director | 1933-01-20 | A GIRL YOU DON’T FORGET can be thought of as a backstage musical that treats the whole world as backstage. Melodies seem to be buzzing through the air… |
| Die Stadt ist voller Geheimnisse | Director | 1955-01-04 | … |
| Sarajewo | Director | 1955-09-13 | … |
| Der eingebildete Kranke | Director | 1964-12-20 | … |
| Emilia Galotti | Director | 1971-07-21 | … |
| Clavigo | Director | 1970-07-21 | … |
| Leonce und Lena | Director | 1964-12-31 | … |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler | Screenplay | 1943-09-10 | A man who is a dead ringer for Adolf Hitler plans to murder him and take over his identity…. |
| The Last Illusion | Writer | 1949-04-19 | Professor Mauthner, after many years of exile (having emigrated in 1933 to the USA), returns to Germany in 1948. He can in fact return to his teaching… |
| Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs | Writer | 1927-12-16 | … |
| Der Märtyrer seines Herzens | Writer | 1918-02-08 | The film traces the individual stages in the life of Ludwig van Beethoven…. |
| Die Sendung der Lysistrata | Writer | 1961-02-10 | Persuaded by Lysistrata, the women of Athens agree to withdraw all sexual favours from the men until the men agree to end to war with Sparta…. |
| The Upright Sinner | Writer | 1931-10-21 | Leopold Pichler is a very orderly and trustworthy chief cashier who is asked by his boss to get a large sum of money from the bank which the boss urge… |
| A Girl You Don’t Forget | Writer | 1933-01-20 | A GIRL YOU DON’T FORGET can be thought of as a backstage musical that treats the whole world as backstage. Melodies seem to be buzzing through the air… |
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