. 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.
| 1980 | Kortnergeschichten as Self (archive footage) |
| 1977 | Hitler-Bir Kariyer as Self (archive footage) |
| 1969 | Der Kaufmann von Venedig as Shylock |
| 1966 | Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte |
| 1965 | Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe |
| 1951 | Barbe-Bleue as Haushofmeister |
| 1950 | Epilog – Das Geheimnis der Orplid as Mr. P. L. Hoopman |
| 1949 | Der Ruf as Professor Mauthner |
| 1948 | The Vicious Circle as Joseph Schwartz |
| 1948 | Berlin Express as Franzen |
| 1947 | The Brasher Doubloon as Vannier |
| 1946 | The Razor's Edge as Kosti |
| 1946 | Somewhere in the Night as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle |
| 1946 | The Wife of Monte Cristo as Maillard |
| 1943 | The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler as Bauer |
| 1943 | The Purple V as Thomas Forster |
| 1940 | Der ewige Jude as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage) |
| 1937 | Midnight Menace as Minister Peters of Grovnia |
| 1935 | The Crouching Beast as Ahmed Bey |
| 1935 | Abdul the Damned as The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar |
| 1934 | Little Friend as Giant |
| 1934 | Evensong as Arthur Kober |
| 1934 | Chu Chin Chow as Abu Hasan |
| 1931 | Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff as Dimitri Karamasoff |
| 1931 | Danton as Danton |
| 1930 | Menschen im Käfig as Captain Kell |
| 1930 | Die große Sehnsucht as Himself |
| 1930 | Dreyfus as Hauptmann Alfred Dreyfus |
| 1930 | Der Andere as Staatsanwalt Hallers |
| 1929 | Giftgas as Konzernpräsident Straaten |
| 1929 | Atlantik as Heinrich Thomas |
| 1929 | Die stärkere Macht |
| 1929 | Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen as Capt. Fernando Vela |
| 1929 | Die Frau im Talar |
| 1929 | Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt as Dr. Karoff |
| 1929 | Somnambul |
| 1929 | Pandora'nın Kutusu as Dr. Ludwig Schön |
| 1928 | Revolutionshochzeit as Montaloup |
| 1928 | Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour |
| 1928 | Frau Sorge as Der alte Meyhöfer |
| 1927 | Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs |
| 1927 | Die Ausgestoßenen |
| 1927 | Primanerliebe as Karsten |
| 1927 | Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin |
| 1927 | Beethoven as Ludwig van Beethoven |
| 1927 | Draga Maschin |
| 1926 | Dürfen wir schweigen? as Der annoncirende Arzt |
| 1924 | Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża as lokaj |
| 1924 | Moderne Ehen |
| 1924 | Orlac'ın Elleri as Nera |
| 1924 | Dr. Wislizenus as Dr. Wislizenus |
| 1924 | Armes kleines Mädchen |
| 1923 | Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant as Urmensch |
| 1923 | Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination as The Count |
| 1923 | Nora as Krogstadt |
| 1922 | Am Rande der Großstadt |
| 1922 | Die Finsternis und ihr Eigentum as Gangster |
| 1922 | Peter der Große as Patriarch Adrian |
| 1922 | Der Graf von Essex as Lord Nottingham |
| 1922 | Am roten Kliff as Henning Rinkens |
| 1921 | Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon |
| 1921 | Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod |
| 1921 | Hintertreppe as Der Postbote |
| 1921 | Die Brüder Karamasoff |
| 1921 | Landstraße und Großstadt as Mendel Hammerstein |
| 1921 | Die Verschwörung zu Genua as Gianettino |
| 1921 | Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle as Sultan |
| 1921 | Das Haus zum Mond as Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler |
| 1921 | Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha as Bhirma |
| 1920 | Die Nacht der Königin Isabeau as Connetable |
| 1920 | Weltbrand as Iwan Becker |
| 1920 | Catherine the Great as Potemkin |
| 1920 | Va banque |
| 1920 | Satanas as Pharao Amenhotep |
| 1920 | Die Verschleierte |
| 1919 | Das Auge des Buddha |
| 1918 | Der Sonnwendhof |
| 1918 | Das andere Ich as Professor |
| 1918 | Der Märtyrer seines Herzens as Ludwig van Beethoven |
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