Fritz Kortner
Fritz Kortner was born on May 12, 1892 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor and director, known for Die Büchse der Pandora (1929), Somewhere in the Night (1946) and Orlacs Hände (1924). He was married to Johanna Hofer. He died on July 22, 1970 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.
Fritz Kreig
Fritz Kreig is known for Space Boobs in Space (2017).
Fritz Kuhn
Fritz Kuhn, the self-styled "American Fuhrer," was the Leader of German-American Bund (Federation), a group which, prior to its dissolution following Pearl Harbor, was directly connected to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Fritz is featured in the documentary film "Inside Nazi Germany," the January 1938 March of Time newsreel called "the first commercially released anti-Nazi American motion picture." Born in Germany on May 15, 1896, the naturalized U.S. citizen was a stalwart supporter of the Nazi German government led by Adolf Hitler. He served in the German Army as an infantry officer during World War I, winning an Iron Cross for bravery. He graduated from the University of Munich with a masters degree in chemical engineering after the war and moved to Mexico in the 1920s. From Mexico, he emigrated to the United States where, in 1934, he became a naturalized citizen. The Bund originally was called "Friends of New Germany" when it was organized in the U.S. Members wore a uniform, a white shirt and black trousers for men with a black hat festooned with a red symbol. Women members wore a white blouse and a black skirt. The organization originally was lead by German immigrant and non-citizen Fritz Gissibl, who made his headquarters in Chicago. Walter Kappe was one of Gissibl's chief lieutenant. (Kappe later returned to Nazi Germany, where he planned and executed the infiltration of the U.S. by two four-man teams of saboteurs in 1942. On August 8, 1942, six of the eight German agents were electrocuted at the District Jail in Washington, D.C. Two others were sentenced to prison, one for life and the other for 30 years. In 1948, they were deported to Germany. Meanwhile. This is the president President George W. Bush uses to justify the detainment of terrorists without recourse to habeus corpus.) On the orders of Hitler, who wanted an American citizen fronting the organization, Kuhn replaced Gissibl. The name of the federation was changed to the German-American Bund. When the 1936 Summer Olympics were held in Berlin, Kuhn attended and was introduced to Adolf Hitler. Reportedly, Hitler was not favorably impressed with Kuhn, a man who, unlike the German Fuhrer, liked strong waters and women. The pro-Hitler Bund was considered a substantial threat by anti-fascist forces in the United States. German-Americans constituted the largest ethnic group in terms of numbers of immigrants entering the U.S. since such numbers were kept in the early 19th-century, and a good many German Americans in the wake of World War One had no desire for a second German-American war. When combined with the large groups of isolationists who desired that the U.S. stay out of European affairs, Kuhn and the Bund constituted a major stumbling block to those who desired action against Hitler's fascist regime. Although the newsreel "Inside Nazi Germany" contains some footage shot in Nazi Germany, the "documentary" featured staged re-enactments shot in the United States, using anti-Nazi German-Americans. Kuhn was inveigled to stage some scenes in his German-American Bund office. When he discovered he had been tricked, Walter Winchell reported that he was recorded screaming "I will be ruint. Ruint!" at a screening in the March of Time building. As for Fritz Kuhn, his own troubles preceded those that led to the downfall of the Bund. New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who was half-Jewish, launched an investigation of the Bund in 1939. Evidence that Kuhn had pilfered $14,000 in Bund funds was discovered, but the Bund -- loyal to its Fuhrer -- refused to prosecute. Undaunted, District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey indicted Kuhn on charges of embezzlement, charging that he had allegedly spent part of the $14,000 on his mistress. Kuhn was convicted, and although members of the Bund believed it was a politically motivated frame-up and continued to hold him in high regard, he was a spent force, politically. The man who had dreamed his Quisling dream of one day becoming "America's Fuhrer" was replaced by Gerhard Kunze. A year after the outbreak of World War II, Congress enacted a peacetime military draft in September 1940. The Bund counseled members of draft age to evade conscription, a criminal offense punishable by up to five years in jail and a $10,000 fine. Gerhard Kunze fled to Mexico in November 1941, and after Germany and America went to war in December of that year, Kuhn was incarcerated at an internment camp in Texas for the duration. In 1946, he was released and deported to Bundesrepublik Deutschland (West Germany), where he was imprisoned. He was released shortly before his death in 1951.
Fritz Lafontant
Fritz Lafontant is known for Bending the Arc (2017).
Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1890. His father managed a construction company. His mother, Pauline Schlesinger, was Jewish but converted to Catholicism when Lang was ten. After high school, he enrolled briefly at the Technische Hochschule Wien and then started to train as a painter. From 1910 to 1914, he traveled in Europe, and he would later claim, also in Asia and North Africa. He studied painting in Paris from 1913-14. At the start of World War I, he returned to Vienna, enlisting in the army in January 1915. Severely wounded in June 1916, he wrote some scenarios for films while convalescing. In early 1918, he was sent home shell-shocked and acted briefly in Viennese theater before accepting a job as a writer at Erich Pommer's production company in Berlin, Decla. In Berlin, Lang worked briefly as a writer and then as a director, at Ufa and then for Nero-Film, owned by the American Seymour Nebenzal. In 1920, he began a relationship with actress and writer Thea von Harbou (1889-1954), who wrote with him the scripts for his most celebrated films: Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (1922), Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924), Metropolis (1927) and M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931) (credited to von Harbou alone). They married in 1922 and divorced in 1933. In that year, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels offered Lang the job of head of the German Cinema Institute. Lang--who was an anti-Nazi mainly because of his Catholic background--did not accept the position (it was later offered to and accepted by filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl) and, after secretly sending most of his money out of the country, fled Germany to Paris. After about a year in Paris, Lang moved to the United States in mid-1934, initially under contract to MGM. Over the next 20 years, he directed numerous American films. In the 1950s, in part because the film industry was in economic decline and also because of Lang's long-standing reputation for being difficult with, and abusive to, actors, he found it increasingly hard to get work. At the end of the 1950s, he traveled to Germany and made what turned out to be his final three films there, none of which were well received. In 1964, nearly blind, he was chosen to be president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. He was an avid collector of primitive art and habitually wore a monocle, an affectation he picked up during his early days in Vienna. After his divorce from von Harbou, he had relationships with many other women, but from about 1931 to his death in 1976, he was close to Lily Latte, who helped him in many ways.
Fritz Leiber
Fritz Leiber was born on January 31, 1882 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Monsieur Verdoux (1947), Bagdad (1949) and The Queen of Sheba (1921). He was married to Virginia Bronson. He died on October 14, 1949 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.
Fritz Matthews
Fritz Matthews is known for Deadly Prey (1987), Operation Warzone (1988) and Deadly Reactor (1989).
Fritz Mielert
Fritz Mielert is known for Urbanized (2011) and Berlin Mitte (1999).
Fritz Mitchell
Frederick "Fritz" Mitchell, three-time Peabody Award winning documentary filmmaker, has produced some of the industries most recognized sports pieces. His body of work has earned him 7 Emmys from 22 nominations, an Eclipse Award, as well as recognition in the New York Film Festival. Fritz started his television career as a researcher for CBS Sports in 1982. Promotions led to work in the capacity of Associate Producer, Associate Director, and Feature Producer on live sports events including the NFL, Super Bowl, College Football, NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, Daytona 500, The Masters, US Open Tennis, and Olympics for both CBS Sports and NBC Sports. He joined ESPN in 1998 to produce long format documentaries. Having witnessed many of the great sports moments over the last 29 years, Fritz has an understanding of the underlying human aspect that allows us to connect with sports heroes. He earned his first Peabody Award and an additional Emmy Award producing profiles for ESPN's Sports Century series. He later produced and directed Dick Schaap: Flashing Before My Eyes, a two-hour documentary that looked at the people Dick Schaap "collected" during his 50 years in sports and journalism. Schaap found the unusual stories that nobody else had uncovered. He came to know athletes, actors, cops and comedians during a simpler era when this was still possible. This film received two Emmy Awards and a Silver World Medal in the New York Festival. Sports Illustrated: 50 Years of Great Stories, another two-hour documentary, focused on some of the best sports writers of our time. Their words have explained the significance of singular events, explored the nature of celebrity, exposed scandals, and revealed personalities. Great story telling illuminated Sonny Liston, Secretariat, Jack Nicklaus, and Mississippi State University breaking the color barrier. This film received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Sports Documentary. Working closely with author and artist James Prosek, Fritz produced and directed The Complete Angler with James Prosek, a one-hour film that follows Prosek's journey to capture the spirit of Izaak Walton's philosophies in The Compleat Angler. This program highlighted James' discovery that "The Compleat Angler is not about fishing, but about life. Or rather, it is about fishing - but fishing is life." After airing on ESPN this documentary was recognized by winning Fritz's second Peabody Award as well as an Emmy Award. Fritz had the opportunity to work with Pulitzer Prize winning writer David Halberstam when he produced and directed the film The Teammates, based on Halberstam's book about former Red Sox teammates who come to terms with their own mortality as they say goodbye to a dying Ted Williams. This film aired on ESPN, received three Emmy nominations and was a Silver World Medal Winner in the New York Festival. Smarty Jones: America's Horse, a 30-minute film, is a story of second chances for a horse that was once badly injured. This program won an Eclipse Award in 2005. Also airing on ESPN, The Season: Paterno gave Fritz the opportunity to focus on his personal love of college football and a man who has dedicated his entire life to it. Paterno embodies the best of what college football represents to its players, the students and of course, the fans. Fritz lives in Vermont with his wife and two children. In his spare time he coaches youth sports and pursues his passion for fly fishing on the rivers of the Adirondacks.
Fritz Müller-Scherz
Fritz Müller-Scherz was born in 1945 in Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996), Der amerikanische Freund (1977) and Angst essen Seele auf (1974).