1892-05-12 ( 132 years old ) in Vienna - 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.
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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Movies
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1980-08-13
Hitler: A Career
1977-07-08
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
1969-03-02
Bluebeard
1951-09-27
Epilogue
1950-09-28
The Last Illusion
1949-04-19
The Vicious Circle
1948-07-21
Berlin Express
1948-05-01
The Brasher Doubloon
1947-02-06
The Razor's Edge
1946-11-19
Somewhere in the Night
1946-06-12
The Wife of Monte Cristo
1946-04-22
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
1943-09-10
The Purple V
1943-03-12
The Eternal Jew
1940-11-28
Midnight Menace
1937-05-04
The Crouching Beast
1935-08-29
Abdul the Damned
1935-08-05
Little Friend
1934-11-18
Evensong
1934-09-03
Chu Chin Chow
1934-05-01
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
1931-02-05
Danton
1931-01-21
The Love Storm
1930-11-21
The Great Passion
1930-08-24
Dreyfus
1930-08-15
The Other
1930-08-11
Giftgas
1929-11-13
Atlantic
1929-10-28
Die stärkere Macht
1929-09-23
The Ship of Lost Men
1929-09-17
Die Frau im Talar
1929-08-22
The Woman Men Yearn For
1929-04-29
The Somnambulist
1929-02-07
Pandora's Box
1929-01-30
The Last Night
1928-10-11
Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
1928-09-06
Frau Sorge
1928-02-07
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
1927-12-16
Die Ausgestoßenen
1927-11-01
Alpentragödie
1927-09-19
Primanerliebe
1927-06-02
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
1927-05-02
The Life of Beethoven
1927-02-18
Draga Maschin
1927-01-01
Should We Be Silent?
1926-04-05
Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
1924-12-27
Moderne Ehen
1924-12-10
The Hands of Orlac
1924-09-24
Dr. Wislizenus
1924-03-03
Armes kleines Mädchen
1924-01-01
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
1923-11-01
Warning Shadows
1923-10-16
Nora
1923-02-02
The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
1923-01-01
Am Rande der Großstadt
1922-12-12
What Belongs to Darkness
1922-12-08
Peter the Great
1922-11-02
Der Graf von Essex
1922-09-14
Am roten Kliff
1922-04-29
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
1921-12-29
Backstairs
1921-12-11
Die Brüder Karamasoff
1921-07-20
Landstraße und Großstadt
1921-04-22
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
1921-02-25
Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
1921-02-07
The House on the Moon
1921-01-28
Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
1921-01-20
The Night of Queen Isabeau
1920-11-18
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
1920-11-12
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
1920-11-11
Catherine the Great
1920-10-22
Va banque
1920-06-27
Satan
1920-01-30
Die Verschleierte
1920-01-01
Gerechtigkeit
1920-01-01
Das Auge des Buddha
1919-03-21
Der Sonnwendhof
1918-11-15
Das andere Ich
1918-09-06
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
1918-02-08
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