Fritz Kortner [13905] Gender: Male Popularity: 0.2089 Birthplace: Vienna - Austria Birthday: 1892-05-12 Deathday: 1970-07-22 Age: 78 years Movies: 84 Links: Homepage, IMDB 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 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. Kortnergeschicht1980-08-13 Hitler: A Career1977-07-08 Der Kaufmann von1969-03-02 Fritz Kortner sp1966-07-05 Fünfter Akt, si1965-05-19 Bluebeard1951-09-27 Epilogue1950-09-28 The Last Illusio1949-04-19 The Vicious Circ1948-07-21 Berlin Express1948-05-01 The Brasher Doub1947-02-06 The Razor's Edge1946-11-19 Somewhere in the1946-06-12 The Wife of Mont1946-04-22 The Hitler Gang1944-04-26 The Strange Deat1943-09-10 The Purple V1943-03-12 The Eternal Jew1940-11-28 Midnight Menace1937-05-04 The Crouching Be1935-08-29 Abdul the Damned1935-08-05 Little Friend1934-11-18 Evensong1934-09-03 Chu Chin Chow1934-05-01 The Murderer Dmi1931-02-05 Danton1931-01-21 The Love Storm1930-11-21 The Great Passio1930-08-24 Dreyfus1930-08-15 The Other1930-08-11 Giftgas1929-11-13 Atlantic1929-10-28 Die stärkere Ma1929-09-23 The Ship of Lost1929-09-17 Die Frau im Tala1929-08-22 The Woman Men Ye1929-04-29 The Somnambulist1929-02-07 Pandora's Box1929-01-30 The Last Night1928-10-11 Marquis d’Eon,1928-09-06 Frau Sorge1928-02-07 Die Geliebte des1927-12-16 Die Ausgestoßen1927-11-01 Alpentragödie1927-09-19 Primanerliebe1927-06-02 Mata Hari: the R1927-05-02 The Life of Beet1927-02-18 Draga Maschin1927-01-01 Should We Be Sil1926-04-05 Kiedy kobieta zd1924-12-27 Moderne Ehen1924-12-10 The Hands of Orl1924-09-24 Dr. Wislizenus1924-03-03 Armes kleines MÃ1924-01-01 Ein Weib, ein Ti1923-11-01 Warning Shadows1923-10-16 Nora1923-02-02 The Ghost with t1923-01-01 Am Rande der Gro1922-12-12 What Belongs to 1922-12-08 Peter the Great1922-11-02 Der Graf von Ess1922-09-14 Am roten Kliff1922-04-29 Der Eisenbahnkö1921-12-29 Der Eisenbahnkö1921-12-29 Backstairs1921-12-11 Die Brüder Kara1921-07-20 Landstraße und 1921-04-22 Die Verschwörun1921-02-25 Haschisch, das P1921-02-07 The House on the1921-01-28 Die Lieblingsfra1921-01-20 The Night of Que1920-11-18 Christian Wahnsc1920-11-12 Der Schädel der1920-11-11 Catherine the Gr1920-10-22 Va banque1920-06-27 Satan1920-01-30 Gerechtigkeit1920-01-01 Die Verschleiert1920-01-01 Das Auge des Bud1919-03-21 Der Sonnwendhof1918-11-15 Das andere Ich1918-09-06 Der Märtyrer se1918-02-08