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Fritz Kortner
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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…
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fritz Kortner, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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BODY OF WORK
Fritz Kortner's Filmography
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Kortnergeschichten
as Self (archive footage)
Hitler: A Career
as Self (archive footage)
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Der Kaufmann von Venedig
as Shylock
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
Epilogue
as Mr. P. L. Hoopman
The Last Illusion
as Professor Mauthner
The Vicious Circle
as Joseph Schwartz
Berlin Express
as Otto Franzen
The Brasher Doubloon
as Vannier
The Razor's Edge
as Kosti
Somewhere in the Night
as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
The Wife of Monte Cristo
as Maillard
The Hitler Gang
as Gregor Strasser
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
as Bauer
No Poster
The Purple V
as Thomas Forster
The Eternal Jew
as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
Midnight Menace
as Minister Peters of Grovnia
The Crouching Beast
as Ahmed Bey
Abdul the Damned
as The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
Little Friend
as Giant
Evensong
as Arthur Kober
Chu Chin Chow
as Abu Hasan
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
as Dimitri Karamasoff
Danton
as Danton
The Love Storm
as Captain Kell
The Great Desire
as Himself
Dreyfus
as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
The Other
as Staatsanwalt Hallers
Giftgas
as Konzernpräsident Straaten
Atlantic
as Heinrich Thomas
No Poster
Die stärkere Macht
The Ship of Lost Men
as Capt. Fernando Vela
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Die Frau im Talar
The Woman One Longs For
as Dr. Karoff
The Somnambulist
Pandora's Box
as Dr. Ludwig Schön
The Last Night
as Montaloup, Kommissar des Sicherheitsausschusses
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Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
Odette
as Frontenac
Frau Sorge
as Der alte Meyhöfer
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
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Die Ausgestoßenen
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Alpentragödie
as Father
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Primanerliebe
as Karsten
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
as Graf Bobrykin
The Life of Beethoven
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Draga Maschin
Should We Be Silent?
as Der annoncirende Arzt
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Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
as lokaj
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Moderne Ehen
The Hands of Orlac
as Nera
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Dr. Wislizenus
as Dr. Wislizenus
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Armes kleines Mädchen
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Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
as Urmensch
Warning Shadows
as The Count
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Nora
as Krogstadt
The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
Am Rande der Großstadt
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What Belongs to Darkness
as Gangster
Peter the Great
as Patriarch Adrian
Der Graf von Essex
as Lord Nottingham
Am roten Kliff
as Henning Rinkens
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
Backstairs
as The Postman
Danton
as Minor Role (rumored)
Landstraße und Großstadt
as Mendel Hammerstein
No Poster
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
as Gianettino
No Poster
Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
as Sultan
The House on the Moon
as Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
as Bhirma
No Poster
The Night of Queen Isabeau
as Connetable
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
as Iwan Becker
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
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Catherine the Great
as Potemkin
The Brothers Karamazov
Va banque
Satan
as Pharao Amenhotep
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Die Verschleierte
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Gerechtigkeit
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The Eye of the Buddha
Der Sonnwendhof
No Poster
Frauenehre
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Her Other Self
as Professor
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Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
as Ludwig van Beethoven