Highest rated movie: Pandora's Box (1929)
Lowest rated movie: Chu Chin Chow (1934)
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Movies starring Fritz Kortner have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 66%.
Pandora's Box - released in 1929 - is Fritz Kortner's highest rated movie, with a score of 79% based on 197 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Fritz Kortner is Chu Chin Chow - released in 1934 - with a score of 55% based on 2 reviews.
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.
Fritz Kortner has acted in films with Reed Hadley, Forbes Murray, Nancy Guild and Charlie Chaplin.
Fritz Kortner has worked with these film directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Jacques Tourneur, John Brahm and Edmund Goulding.
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