Fritz Kortner
Actor
Born May 12, 1892 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
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.
Filmography
Hitler: A Career
Self (archive footage)
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Self (archive footage)
Emilia Galotti
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
Die Sendung der Lysistrata
Sarajevo
Secrets of the City
Bluebeard
Haushofsmeister
Epilogue
Mr. P. L. Hoopman
The Last Illusion
Professor Mauthner
The Vicious Circle
Joseph Schwartz
Berlin Express
Otto Franzen
The Brasher Doubloon
Vannier
The Razor's Edge
Kosti
Somewhere in the Night
Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
The Wife of Monte Cristo
Maillard
The Hitler Gang
Gregor Strasser
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Bauer
The Eternal Jew
Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
Midnight Menace
Minister Peters of Grovnia
The Crouching Beast
Ahmed Bey
Abdul the Damned
The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
Little Friend
Giant
Evensong
Arthur Kober
Chu Chin Chow
Abu Hasan
A Girl You Don't Forget
The Upright Sinner
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
Dimitri Karamasoff
Danton
Danton
The Love Storm
Captain Kell
The Great Passion
Himself
Dreyfus
Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
The Other
Staatsanwalt Hallers
Atlantic
Heinrich Thomas
The Ship of Lost Men
Capt. Fernando Vela
The Woman One Longs For
Dr. Karoff
The Somnambulist
Pandora's Box
Dr. Ludwig Schön
The Last Night
Montaloup
Frau Sorge
Der alte Meyhöfer
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
Graf Bobrykin
The Life of Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Draga Maschin
Should We Be Silent?
Der annoncirende Arzt
The Hands of Orlac
Nera
Warning Shadows
The Count
The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
Am Rande der Großstadt
Peter the Great
Patriarch Adrian
Der Graf von Essex
Lord Nottingham
Am roten Kliff
Henning Rinkens
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
Backstairs
The Postman
Danton
Minor Role (rumored)
Landstraße und Großstadt
Mendel Hammerstein
The House on the Moon
Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
Bhirma
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Iwan Becker
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
Die Brüder Karamasoff
Va banque
Satan
Pharao Amenhotep
Der Sonnwendhof