Fritz Kortner
b. 1892 — d. 1970 (aged 78)
Vienna - Austria
Actor
Director
Writer
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.
Known For
Filmography
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Emilia Galotti
1971 Director
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Clavigo
1970 Director
Writer
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★ 8.6
Der Sturm
1969 Director
Writer
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Der Vater
1969 Director
Writer
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Theater-Donner '69 - Das Stück heißt Revolution
1969 Self
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Der schwierige Kortner - Zum 75. Geburtstag
1967 Self
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★ 7.0
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
1966 Self
Actor
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Fritz Kortner spricht Shylock
1966 Self
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★ 7.4
Fünfter Akt, siebte Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
1965 Self
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Premieren von gestern
1965 Self
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★ 8.5
Der eingebildete Kranke
1964 Director
Writer
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Im Literarischen Kaffeehaus
1964 Self
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★ 8.9
Leonce und Lena
1963 Director
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Das Profil
1962 Self
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Das letzte Band
1962 Actor
Krapp
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★ 7.8
Die Sendung der Lysistrata
1961 Director
Writer
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Durchreise der Musen
1959 Self
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★ 8.2
Androklus und der Löwe
1958 Director
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Zu Ehren Fritz Kortners
1957 Self
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★ 6.7
Sarajevo
1955 Director
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★ 7.2
Die Stadt ist voller Geheimnisse
1955 Director
Writer
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★ 6.2
Bluebeard
1951 Actor
Haushofsmeister
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★ 6.9
Epilogue
1950 Actor
Mr. P. L. Hoopman
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★ 7.2
Der Ruf
1949 Actor
Writer
Professor Mauthner
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★ 6.8
Berlin Express
1948 Actor
Otto Franzen
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★ 5.8
The Vicious Circle
1948 Actor
Joseph Schwartz
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★ 6.6
The Brasher Doubloon
1947 Actor
Rudolph Vannier
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★ 7.3
The Razor's Edge
1946 Actor
Kosti
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★ 7.0
Somewhere in the Night
1946 Actor
Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
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★ 5.9
The Wife of Monte Cristo
1946 Actor
Maillard
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★ 6.8
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
1943 Actor
Writer
Bauer
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★ 5.8
The Purple V
1943 Actor
Thomas Forster
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★ 6.2
Bombs Over London
1937 Actor
Minister Peters of Grovnia
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★ 6.5
A Clown Must Laugh
1936 Writer
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★ 5.7
Abdul the Damned
1935 Actor
Sultan Abdul Hamid II
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The Crouching Beast
1935 Actor
Ahmed Bey
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★ 6.1
Chu Chin Chow
1934 Actor
Abu Hasan
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★ 6.4
Evensong
1934 Actor
Arthur Kober
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★ 7.0
A Girl You Don't Forget
1932 Director
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★ 7.4
Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff
1931 Actor
Dimitri Karamasoff
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★ 7.2
Danton
1931 Actor
Danton
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★ 6.1
The Upright Sinner
1931 Director
Writer
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★ 5.9
Les frères Karamazoff
1931 Actor
Dimitri Karamazoff
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★ 6.4
The Dreyfus Case
1930 Actor
Alfred Dreyfus
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★ 5.2
Der Andere
1930 Actor
Staatsanwalt Hallers
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The Love Storm
1930 Actor
Captain Kell
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★ 7.7
Pandora's Box
1929 Actor
Dr. Ludwig Schön
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★ 6.7
Three Loves
1929 Actor
Dr. Karoff
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★ 6.5
The Ship of Lost Men
1929 Actor
Kapitän Vela - Captain Fernando Vela
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★ 6.7
Atlantic
1929 Actor
Heinrich Thomas, author
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★ 4.6
The Somnambulist
1929 Actor
Fabrikant Bingen
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★ 6.4
Giftgas
1929 Actor
Konzernpräsident Straaten
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Die Frau im Talar
1929 Actor
Konsul Backhaug
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Die Nacht des Schreckens
1929 Actor
Prince Wagarin
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★ 6.5
The Last Night
1928 Actor
Montaloup
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★ 5.7
Marquis d'Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
1928 Actor
Zar Paul von Rußland
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Mein Leben für das Deine
1928 Actor
Frontenac
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Dame Care
1928 Actor
Der alte Meyhöfer
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★ 6.0
Das Leben des Beethoven
1927 Actor
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
1927 Actor
Graf Bobrykin
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Alpentragödie
1927 Actor
Mairas Vater
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Students' Love
1927 Actor
Karsten
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Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
1927 Actor
Writer
Zarewitsch Alexander
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Draga Maschin
1927 Actor
Zarewitsch Alexander
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Maria Stuart, Teil 1 und 2
1927 Actor
Marschall Bothwell
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Caught in Berlin's Underworld
1927 Actor
Lord
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★ 7.0
Dürfen wir schweigen?
1926 Actor
Der annoncierender Arzt
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★ 7.0
The Hands of Orlac
1924 Actor
Nera
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Kiedy kobieta zdradza meza
1924 Actor
Lokaj
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Armes kleines Mädchen
1924 Actor
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Moderne Ehen
1924 Actor
Diener
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Wenn Männer schweigen
1924 Actor
Forsthüter Mathias Eger
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Dr. Wislizenus
1924 Actor
Dr. Wislizenus
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★ 6.6
Warning Shadows
1923 Actor
Man
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★ 5.6
Nora
1923 Actor
Krogstadt, Rechtsanwalt
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Arme Sünderin
1923 Actor
Canary
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Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
1923 Actor
Urmensch
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Le revenant au baiser mortel
1923 Actor
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★ 6.8
Peter the Great
1922 Actor
Patriarch Adrian
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★ 6.1
Luise Millerin
1922 Actor
Miller
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Am roten Kliff
1922 Actor
Henning Rinkens
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Sterbende Völker - 2. Brennendes Meer
1922 Actor
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Am Rande der Großstadt
1922 Actor
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Der Graf von Essex
1922 Actor
Lord Nottingham
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Die Finsternis und ihr Eigentum
1922 Actor
Gangster
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Sterbende Völker - 1. Heimat in Not
1922 Actor
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Der Ruf des Schicksals
1922 Actor
Prince Schota Kartweli
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★ 6.9
Hintertreppe
1921 Actor
Der Postbote
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★ 6.2
Landstraße und Großstadt
1921 Actor
Mendel Hammerstein
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★ 6.0
Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha - 3. Teil
1921 Actor
Bhima, Bruder des Maharadschas
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Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
1921 Actor
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Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
1921 Actor
Sultan
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Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
1921 Actor
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Aus dem Schwarzbuch eines Polizeikommissars, 1. Teil - Loge Nr. 11
1921 Actor
Der Krüppel
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The Genoa Conspiracy
1921 Actor
Gianettino
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Das Haus der Qualen
1921 Actor
Arzt
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Das Haus zum Mond
1921 Actor
Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
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Die Jagd nach der Wahrheit
1921 Actor
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★ 5.6
Die Brüder Karamasoff
1920 Actor
Der alte Karamasoff
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★ 7.0
Weltbrand
1920 Actor
Iwan Becker