Actor
Fritz Kortner
May 12, 1892 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
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.
Often works with
Reinhold Schünzel
3 titles together
Berlin Express, The Hitler Gang, The Vicious Circle
Alexander Granach
3 titles together
Warning Shadows, The Hitler Gang, Danton
Fritz Rasp
3 titles together
Warning Shadows, The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov, Dreyfus
Reed Hadley
2 titles together
The Razor's Edge, The Brasher Doubloon
Nancy Guild
2 titles together
Somewhere in the Night, The Brasher Doubloon
Philip Van Zandt
2 titles together
Somewhere in the Night, The Vicious Circle
Full filmography · 87
Odette
as Frontenac
Upcoming
Emilia Galotti
Director
1971Clavigo
Writer
1970Der Kaufmann von Venedig
as Shylock
1969
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
cast
1966
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
cast
1965Leonce und Lena
Director
1964Der eingebildete Kranke
Director
1964
Die Sendung der Lysistrata
Director and Writer
1961Androcles and the Lion
Director
1958
Sarajevo
Director
1955
Secrets of the City
Director and Writer
1955