Fritz Kortner
Acting
Born 1892-05-12
Died 1970-07-22
Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
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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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German Film Award
The Razor's Edge
The Hands of Orlac
Der Sonnwendhof
Pandora's Box
Hitler: A Career
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Somewhere in the Night
Bluebeard
Die Ausgestoßenen
The Eternal Jew
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
The House on the Moon
Danton
Berlin Express
The Life of Beethoven
Emilia Galotti
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Der Sturm
Draga Maschin
The Other
Dr. Wislizenus
Landstraße und Großstadt
Das Profil
Little Friend
Armes kleines Mädchen
Primanerliebe
Nora
Frauenehre
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Frau Sorge
Backstairs
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
The Wife of Monte Cristo
The Hitler Gang
Peter the Great
Die stärkere Macht
Der Graf von Essex
The Crouching Beast
Epilogue
Alpentragödie
Am Rande der Großstadt
The Brasher Doubloon
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
Danton
Chu Chin Chow
Va banque
The Purple V
What Belongs to Darkness
The Great Passion
Das Auge des Buddha
The Upright Sinner
Der eingebildete Kranke
Am roten Kliff
Secrets of the City
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
Die Brüder Karamasoff
Atlantic
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
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