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Berlin Express

as Franzen

1948
Somewhere in the Night

as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle

1946
The Razor's Edge

as Kosti

1946
The Wife of Monte Cristo

as Maillard

1946
The Purple V

as Thomas Forster

1943
Midnight Menace

as Minister Peters of Grovnia

1937
Abdul the Damned

as The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar

1936
Chu Chin Chow

as Abu Hasan

1934
Evensong

as Arthur Kober

1934
The Ship of Lost Men

as Capt. Fernando Vela

1929
The Hands of Orlac

as Nera

1928
Warning Shadows

as The Count

1923
The Night of Queen Isabeau

as Connetable

1920
Fritz Kortner Fritz Kortner

Birthday

1892-05-12

Place of Birth

Vienna - Austria

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.
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