Kurt Gerron
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1897-05-11
Day of Death
1944-10-30 (47 years old)
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
Kurt Gerron
Biography
Kurt Gerron (born Kurt Gerson; 11 May 1897 – 30 October 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director. He had a very successful career in cabaret and film before World War II, but was then forbidden to work and was sent to Theresienstadt Ghetto after the Nazis had occupied the Netherlands, where he and his family had fled to. In 1944 he was forced by the Nazis to make the propaganda film Theresienstadt: A Documentary Film from the Jewish Settlement Area, before he and his wife, Olga Gerson-Meyer, were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered. The film was completed not long before the end of the war, but was never shown to the public, and only fragments remain.
Known For
Acting
(2003)
Prisoner of Paradise
as Self (archival footage)
(1944)
Theresienstadt
as Regisseur - Schauspieler
(1940)
The Eternal Jew
as (archive footage)
(1933)
Her Majesty Love
as Hornberg
(1932)
Two in a Car
as Agent Niedlich
(1932)
Vater geht auf Reisen
as Kommissar
(1931)
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
as Spielbankdirektor
(1931)
We Need No Money
as Bank President Binder
(1931)
(1931)
Madame Pompadour
as Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
(1931)
One Night at the Grand Hotel
as Achaz
(1931)
Road to Rio
as Barera, casino owner
(1930)
The Blue Angel
as Kiepert
(1930)
People on Sunday
as Kurt
(1930)
The Three from the Filling Station
as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
(1930)
(1930)
Love in the Ring
as Box-Manager
(1930)
Burglars
as Polizeikommissar
(1930)
Dolly is making a career
as Silbermann
(1929)
Diary of a Lost Girl
as Dr. Vitalis
(1929)
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
as guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
(1929)
(1929)
(1929)
Daughter of the Regiment
as Quippo
(1929)
Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
as Steak
(1929)
Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
as Maxe
(1929)
(1928)
(1928)
(1928)
Unmoral
as Matrosenemil
(1928)
Heut tanzt Mariett
as Brigon
(1928)
Die Hotelratte
as Hüsgens
(1928)
Manege
as Bela Garay
(1928)
(1928)
Die Pflicht zu schweigen
as Iwan Daniloff
(1927)
Das tanzende Wien
as Feuerwehrmann
(1927)
The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
as Georgakopoulos
(1927)
A Crazy Night
as Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
(1927)
Agitated Woman
as Wladimir
(1927)
Ein Tag der Rosen im August..
as Boxer
(1927)
Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell
as Meyers
(1927)
(1927)
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
as Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
(1927)
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
as Club Manager
(1927)
Girls for Sale!
as Kastillo
(1927)
(1927)
(1927)
Der Soldat der Marie
as Wachmeister Knöppke
(1927)
Der große Unbekannte
as Bankier Tupperwill
(1927)
(1927)
(1926)
(1926)
(1926)
(1926)
(1926)
Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier
as Photograph
(1926)
Annemarie und ihr Ulan
as Wachtmeister
(1925)
Variety
as Hafenarbeiter
(1925)
(1925)
Halbseide
as Willi Krach
(1924)
(1921)
Crew
(1944)
Theresienstadt
Writer, Director
(1936)
Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood
Director
(1935)
(1935)
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten
Director
(1934)
Incognito
Director
(1933)
Heut' kommt's drauf an
Director
(1933)
Kind, ich freu' mich auf Dein Kommen
Director, Writer
(1933)
A Woman at the Wheel
Director
(1932)
A Mad Idea
Director
(1932)
(1932)
The White Demon
Director
(1932)
Stupéfiants
Director
(1931)
My Wife, the Adventuress
Director
(1931)
The mute of Portici
Director
(1931)
Cabaret program No. 1
Director
(1931)
Kabarett-Programm Nr. 2
Director
(1926)
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
Director