Fritz Kortner
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Fritz Nathan Kohn was an actor in German theater and films by the mid teens, and he directed himself in Gregor Marold and Else Von Erlenhof after World War One. He stuck to acting in the '20s, appearing in such notable films as Robert Wiene's Orlacs Hande (aka The Hands of Orlac) and G.W. Pabst's Die Buchse Der Pandora (aka Pandora's Box). In the early '30s he directed and co-scripted Der Brave Sunder (aka The Upright Sinner) and So Ein Mudel Vergisst Man Nicht but then had to flee the Nazis. Kortner came to the States in 1938, and after writing and directing on Broadway, became an actor and writer in Hollywood, most notably with The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler. Returning to Germany after the war, he resumed acting and directing in theater and films, helming Die Stadt Ist Voller Geheimnisse and Sarajevo, as well as the television film Die Sendung Der Lysistrata.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Der Ruf |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Dreyfus (The Dreyfus Case) |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | The Strange Death Of Adolf Hitler |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Maria Stuart, Teil 1 und 2 |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt (Three Loves) |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Hands of a Stranger |
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— | 1962 |
No Score Yet | Um Thron und Liebe |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Berlin Express |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | The Brasher Doubloon |
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— | 1947 |
89% | Somewhere in the Night |
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— | 1946 |
56% | The Razor's Edge |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | The Hitler Gang |
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— | 1944 |
No Score Yet | Der Ewige Jude |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | Midnight Menace (Bombs Over London) |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | Abdul the Damned |
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— | 1936 |
76% | Chu Chin Chow |
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— | 1934 |
No Score Yet | Evensong |
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— | 1934 |
No Score Yet | Der brave Sünder |
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— | 1931 |
No Score Yet | Der Andere (The Other) |
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— | 1930 |
93% | Pandora's Box |
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— | 1929 |
No Score Yet | Woman Men Yearn For |
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— | 1929 |
No Score Yet | Ship of Lost Men |
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— | 1929 |
91% | Orlacs Hände (The Hands of Orlac) |
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— | 1924 |
No Score Yet | Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination (Warning Shadows: A Nocturnal Hallucination) |
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— | 1923 |
60% | Warning Shadows |
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— | 1922 |
No Score Yet | Hintertreppe |
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— | 1921 |
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