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Fritz Kortner
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 Fr…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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1980
Kortnergeschichten
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1977
Hitler: A Career
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1975
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1971
Emilia Galotti
Movie Director
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1970
Clavigo
Movie Writer
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1969
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
Movie Shylock
- 1966
- 1965
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1964
Leonce und Lena
Movie Director
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1964
Der eingebildete Kranke
Movie Director
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1962
Das Profil
TV show Self
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1961
Die Sendung der Lysistrata
Movie Director
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1958
Androcles and the Lion
Movie Director
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1955
Sarajevo
Movie Director
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1955
Secrets of the City
Movie Director
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1951
German Film Award
TV show Self
More credits
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1950
Epilogue
Movie Mr. P. L. Hoopman
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1949
The Last Illusion
Movie Professor Mauthner
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1948
The Vicious Circle
Movie Joseph Schwartz
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1948
Berlin Express
Movie Otto Franzen
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1947
The Brasher Doubloon
Movie Vannier
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1946
The Razor's Edge
Movie Kosti
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1946
Somewhere in the Night
Movie Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
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1946
The Wife of Monte Cristo
Movie Maillard
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1944
The Hitler Gang
Movie Gregor Strasser
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1943
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Movie Bauer
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1943
The Purple V
Movie Thomas Forster
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1940
The Eternal Jew
Movie Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
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1937
Midnight Menace
Movie Minister Peters of Grovnia
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1935
The Crouching Beast
Movie Ahmed Bey
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1935
Abdul the Damned
Movie The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
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1934
Little Friend
Movie Giant
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1934
Evensong
Movie Arthur Kober
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1934
Chu Chin Chow
Movie Abu Hasan
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1932
A Girl You Don't Forget
Movie Writer
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1931
The Upright Sinner
Movie Writer
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1931
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
Movie Dimitri Karamasoff
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1931
Danton
Movie Danton
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1930
The Love Storm
Movie Captain Kell
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1930
The Great Desire
Movie Himself
