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Acting
Birthday
May 12, 1892
Died
July 22, 1970
Place of Birth
Vienna - Austria
Fritz Kortner
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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.
Known For
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Self (archive footage)
Kortnergeschichten
1980
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Self (archive footage)
Hitler: A Career
1977
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Self (archive footage)
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
1975
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Shylock
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
1969
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Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
1966
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Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
1965
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Self
Das Profil
1962
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Haushofmeister
Bluebeard
1951
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Self
German Film Award
1951
5.8
Mr. P. L. Hoopman
Epilogue
1950
Credits
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Kortnergeschichten
as Self (archive footage)
1980
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Hitler: A Career
as Self (archive footage)
1977
7.4
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
as Self (archive footage)
1975
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Der Kaufmann von Venedig
as Shylock
1969
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Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
1966
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Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
1965
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Das Profil
as Self
1962
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Bluebeard
as Haushofmeister
1951
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German Film Award
as Self
1951
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Epilogue
as Mr. P. L. Hoopman
1950
5.8
The Last Illusion
as Professor Mauthner
1949
6.3
The Vicious Circle
as Joseph Schwartz
1948
5.5
Berlin Express
as Franzen
1948
6.2
The Brasher Doubloon
as Vannier
1947
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The Razor's Edge
as Kosti
1946
6.9
Somewhere in the Night
as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
1946
6.7
The Wife of Monte Cristo
as Maillard
1946
5.8
The Hitler Gang
as Gregor Strasser
1944
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The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
as Bauer
1943
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The Purple V
as Thomas Forster
1943
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The Eternal Jew
as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
1940
4.5
Midnight Menace
as Minister Peters of Grovnia
1937
6.5
The Crouching Beast
as Ahmed Bey
1935
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Abdul the Damned
as The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
1935
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Little Friend
as Giant
1934
3.5
Evensong
as Arthur Kober
1934
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Chu Chin Chow
as Abu Hasan
1934
4.3
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
as Dimitri Karamasoff
1931
5.7
Danton
as Danton
1931
5.6
The Love Storm
as Captain Kell
1930
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The Great Passion
as Himself
1930
6.5
Dreyfus
as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
1930
5.6
The Other
as Staatsanwalt Hallers
1930
5.5
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Giftgas
as Konzernpräsident Straaten
1929
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Atlantic
as Heinrich Thomas
1929
6.5
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Die stärkere Macht
1929
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The Ship of Lost Men
as Capt. Fernando Vela
1929
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Die Frau im Talar
1929
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The Woman One Longs For
as Dr. Karoff
1929
5.5
The Somnambulist
1929
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Pandora's Box
as Dr. Ludwig Schön
1929
7.5
The Last Night
as Montaloup
1928
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Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
1928
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Frau Sorge
as Der alte Meyhöfer
1928
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Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
1927
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Die Ausgestoßenen
1927
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Alpentragödie
as Father
1927
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Primanerliebe
as Karsten
1927
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Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
as Graf Bobrykin
1927
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The Life of Beethoven
as Ludwig van Beethoven
1927
7.5
Draga Maschin
1927
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Should We Be Silent?
as Der annoncirende Arzt
1926
5.0
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Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
as lokaj
1924
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Moderne Ehen
1924
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The Hands of Orlac
as Nera
1924
6.8
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Dr. Wislizenus
as Dr. Wislizenus
1924
5.0
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Armes kleines Mädchen
1924
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Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
as Urmensch
1923
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Warning Shadows
as The Count
1923
6.5
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Nora
as Krogstadt
1923
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The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
1923
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Am Rande der Großstadt
1922
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What Belongs to Darkness
as Gangster
1922
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Peter the Great
as Patriarch Adrian
1922
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Der Graf von Essex
as Lord Nottingham
1922
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Am roten Kliff
as Henning Rinkens
1922
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Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
1921
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Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
1921
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Backstairs
as The Postman
1921
6.2
Die Brüder Karamasoff
1921
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Danton
as Minor Role (rumored)
1921
5.7
Landstraße und Großstadt
as Mendel Hammerstein
1921
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Die Verschwörung zu Genua
as Gianettino
1921
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Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
as Sultan
1921
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The House on the Moon
as Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
1921
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Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
as Bhirma
1921
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The Night of Queen Isabeau
as Connetable
1920
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Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
as Iwan Becker
1920
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Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
1920
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Catherine the Great
as Potemkin
1920
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Va banque
1920
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Satan
as Pharao Amenhotep
1920
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Gerechtigkeit
1920
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Die Verschleierte
1920
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Das Auge des Buddha
1919
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Der Sonnwendhof
1918
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Frauenehre
1918
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Das andere Ich
as Professor
1918
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Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
as Ludwig van Beethoven
1918
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