FrameThrower · Actors · Fritz Kortner
Fritz Kortner
2 films · 127 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1924–1929
Born 12 May 1892 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria] · died 22 July 1970
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Fritz Kortner 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.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 127 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1924–1929
- Berliner Kunstpreis1963
- Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany1957
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order1970
- honorary golden medal of the state capital Munich1967
- Ernst Reuter Medal1967
- Kainz Medal1967
How their films are shot
Measured across 127 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Fritz takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 73% of their frames are night, 54% low key — the look of the work Fritz takes.
Time of day
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 127 frames from Fritz Kortner's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.