Fritz Kortner
Actor
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.
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Filmography
Pandora's Box
as Dr. Ludwig Schön 1929
The Hands of Orlac
as Nera 1924
The Razor's Edge
as Kosti 1946
Hitler: A Career
as Self (archive footage) 1977
Somewhere in the Night
as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle 1946
Berlin Express
as Franzen 1948
The Eternal Jew
as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage) 1940
The Brasher Doubloon
as Vannier 1947
Warning Shadows
as The Count 1923
Backstairs
as The Postman 1921
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
as Dimitri Karamasoff 1931
The Hitler Gang
as Gregor Strasser 1944
The Ship of Lost Men
as Capt. Fernando Vela 1929
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
as Bauer 1943
The Woman One Longs For
as Dr. Karoff 1929
Dreyfus
as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus 1930
Danton
as Danton 1931