Fritz Kortner
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1892-05-12 (78 years old)
Deathday
1970-07-22
Place of Birth
Vienna - Austria
Also known As
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Fritz Kortner
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 Jewi...
Acting
1929
as Dr. Ludwig Schön
1923
as Krogstadt
1947
as Vannier
1920
as Potemkin
1924
as Nera
1948
as Franzen
1948
as Joseph Schwartz
1946
as Kosti
1923
as The Count
1924
as Dr. Wislizenus
1929
as Dr. Karoff
1921
as Der Postbote
1934
as Abu Hasan
1929
as Capt. Fernando Vela
1935
as The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
1922
as Gangster
1943
1921
as Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
1937
as Minister Peters of Grovnia
1977
as Self (archive footage)
1946
as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
1930
as Staatsanwalt Hallers
1931
as Danton
1930
as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
1931
as Dimitri Karamasoff
1920
as Connetable
1949
as Professor Mauthner
1950
as Mr. P. L. Hoopman
1926
as Der annoncirende Arzt
1928
as Montaloup
1930
as Captain Kell
1934
as Arthur Kober
1929
as Konzernpräsident Straaten
1934
as Giant
1980
as Self (archive footage)
1918
as Professor
1930
as Himself
1921
as Mendel Hammerstein
1940
as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
1969
as Shylock
1943
as Thomas Forster
1935
as Ahmed Bey
1927
as Father
1927
as Graf Bobrykin
1918
1918
as Ludwig van Beethoven
1921
as Gianettino
1928
as Der alte Meyhöfer
1927
as Karsten
1921
as Sultan
1951
as Haushofmeister
1920
as Iwan Becker
1923
as Urmensch
1946
as Maillard
1922
as Henning Rinkens
1920
1921
as Bhirma
1922
as Lord Nottingham
1920
as Pharao Amenhotep
1929
1922
as Patriarch Adrian
1927
1929
as Heinrich Thomas
1924
1927
as Ludwig van Beethoven
1924
as lokaj
1920
1944
as Gregor Strasser
Production
1931
as Writer
1943
as Screenplay
1961
as Director
1958
as Director
1933
as Writer
1931
as Director
1955
as Director
1955
as Director
1933
as Director
1961
as Writer
1970
as Writer
1970
as Stage Director
1971
as Director
1964
as Director
1949
as Writer
1964
as Director
1955
as Writer
1927
as Writer
1918
as Writer
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