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Fritz Kortner
Acting
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.
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Known For
Filmography
Movies
Kortnergeschichten
as Self (archive footage)
Hitler: A Career
as Self (archive footage)
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
as Shylock
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
Bluebeard
as Haushofsmeister
Epilogue
as Mr. P. L. Hoopman
The Last Illusion
as Professor Mauthner
Berlin Express
as Franzen
The Vicious Circle
as Joseph Schwartz
