Fritz Kortner

Personal Info

Birthday

May 12, 1892

Day of Death

1970-07-22

(78 years old)

Place of Birth

Vienna - Austria

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.

Known For

The Hands of Orlac

Pandora's Box

The Razor's Edge

The Brasher Doubloon

The Hitler Gang

Berlin Express

Somewhere in the Night

The Eternal Jew

Filmography

1980
Kortnergeschichten
as Self (archive footage)
1977
Hitler: A Career
as Self (archive footage)
1969
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
as Shylock
1951
Bluebeard
as Haushofmeister
1950
Epilogue
as Mr. P. L. Hoopman
1949
The Last Illusion
as Professor Mauthner
1948
The Vicious Circle
as Joseph Schwartz
Berlin Express
as Franzen
1947
The Brasher Doubloon
as Vannier
1946
The Razor's Edge
as Kosti
Somewhere in the Night
as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
The Wife of Monte Cristo
as Maillard
1944
The Hitler Gang
as Gregor Strasser
1943
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
as Bauer
The Purple V
as Thomas Forster
1940
The Eternal Jew
as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
1937
Midnight Menace
as Minister Peters of Grovnia
1935
The Crouching Beast
as Ahmed Bey
Abdul the Damned
as The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar
1934
Little Friend
as Giant
Evensong
as Arthur Kober
Chu Chin Chow
as Abu Hasan
1931
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
as Dimitri Karamasoff
Danton
as Danton
1930
The Love Storm
as Captain Kell
The Great Passion
as Himself
Dreyfus
as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus
The Other
as Staatsanwalt Hallers
1929
Giftgas
as Konzernpräsident Straaten
Atlantic
as Heinrich Thomas
The Ship of Lost Men
as Capt. Fernando Vela
The Woman Men Yearn For
as Dr. Karoff
Pandora's Box
as Dr. Ludwig Schön
1928
The Last Night
as Montaloup
Frau Sorge
as Der alte Meyhöfer
1927
Alpentragödie
as Father
Primanerliebe
as Karsten
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
as Graf Bobrykin
The Life of Beethoven
as Ludwig van Beethoven
1926
Should We Be Silent?
as Der annoncirende Arzt
1924
Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
as lokaj
The Hands of Orlac
as Nera
Dr. Wislizenus
as Dr. Wislizenus
1923
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
as Urmensch
Warning Shadows
as The Count
Nora
as Krogstadt
1922
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
1921
Backstairs
as Der Postbote
Landstraße und Großstadt
as Mendel Hammerstein
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
as Gianettino
Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
as Sultan
The House on the Moon
as Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler
Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
as Bhirma
1920
The Night of Queen Isabeau
as Connetable
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
as Iwan Becker
Catherine the Great
as Potemkin
Satan
as Pharao Amenhotep
1918
Das andere Ich
as Professor
Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
as Ludwig van Beethoven