Fritz Kortner
Born in Vienna - Austria — May 12 1892• Died Jul 22 1970
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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…
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German Film Award
Self
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Self (archive footage)
Pandora's Box
Dr. Ludwig Schön
The Razor's Edge
Kosti
The Hands of Orlac
Nera
Hitler: A Career
Self (archive footage)
Somewhere in the Night
Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
The Eternal Jew
Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
Berlin Express
Franzen
Abdul the Damned
The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
The Brasher Doubloon
Vannier
The Great Passion
Himself
Danton
Danton
The Wife of Monte Cristo
Maillard
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Bauer
Danton
Minor Role (rumored)
The Other
Staatsanwalt Hallers
Little Friend
Giant
Atlantic
Heinrich Thomas
The Crouching Beast
Ahmed Bey
Backstairs
The Postman
Dreyfus
Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
Evensong
Arthur Kober
The Woman One Longs For
Dr. Karoff
The Hitler Gang
Gregor Strasser
Secrets of the City
Directing
Warning Shadows
The Count
Die Sendung der Lysistrata
Directing
The Vicious Circle
Joseph Schwartz
The Last Illusion
Professor Mauthner
The Ship of Lost Men
Capt. Fernando Vela
Der Graf von Essex
Lord Nottingham
Midnight Menace
Minister Peters of Grovnia
The Purple V
Thomas Forster
Sarajevo
Directing
The Life of Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Iwan Becker
Epilogue
Mr. P. L. Hoopman
The Night of Queen Isabeau
Connetable
Alpentragödie
Father
Primanerliebe
Karsten
Emilia Galotti
Directing
Catherine the Great
Potemkin
Satan
Pharao Amenhotep
Armes kleines Mädchen
Va banque
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
Gianettino
Nora
Krogstadt
Frau Sorge
Der alte Meyhöfer
The House on the Moon
Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
Leonce und Lena
Directing
The Upright Sinner
Writing
Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
Should We Be Silent?
Der annoncirende Arzt
Chu Chin Chow
Abu Hasan
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
Graf Bobrykin
Dr. Wislizenus
Dr. Wislizenus
Kortnergeschichten
Self (archive footage)
Clavigo
Directing
Am roten Kliff
Henning Rinkens
A Girl You Don't Forget
Writing
Landstraße und Großstadt
Mendel Hammerstein
Moderne Ehen
The Somnambulist
Die Ausgestoßenen
The Love Storm
Captain Kell
Bluebeard
Haushofsmeister
Peter the Great
Patriarch Adrian
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
Urmensch
Der eingebildete Kranke
Directing
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
What Belongs to Darkness
Gangster
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
Shylock
Die Brüder Karamasoff
The Last Night
Montaloup
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
Die stärkere Macht
Gerechtigkeit
Giftgas
Konzernpräsident Straaten
Draga Maschin
Die Frau im Talar
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
Dimitri Karamasoff
Die Verschleierte
Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
Bhirma
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
Ludwig van Beethoven
Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
lokaj
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
Androcles and the Lion
Directing
Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
Sultan
Das andere Ich
Professor
Frauenehre
Am Rande der Großstadt
Der Sonnwendhof
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
Das Auge des Buddha
The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss