Kurt Gerron
Born
May 11, 1897
Died
October 30, 1944 (47 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
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.
Prisoner of Paradise
Self (archival footage)
2003
Theresienstadt
Regisseur - Schauspieler
1944
The Eternal Jew
(archive footage)
1940
Her Majesty Love
Hornberg
1933
Vater geht auf Reisen
Kommissar
1932
Two in a Car
Agent Niedlich
1932
We Need No Money
Bank President Binder
1931
One Night at the Grand Hotel
Achaz
1931
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Spielbankdirektor
1931
Trapeze
1931
Madame Pompadour
Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
1931
Burglars
Polizeikommissar
1930
Dolly is making a career
Silbermann
1930
The Three from the Filling Station
Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
1930
Fairground People
1930
The Blue Angel
Kiepert
1930
Love in the Ring
Box-Manager
1930
People on Sunday
Kurt
1930
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
1929
Diary of a Lost Girl
Dr. Vitalis
1929
Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
Steak
1929
Die Flucht vor der Liebe
1929
Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
Steak
1929
Daughter of the Regiment
Quippo
1929
The Alley Cat
1929
Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
Maxe
1929
Unmoral
Matrosenemil
1928
Accident
1928
Casanovas Erbe
1928
Heut tanzt Mariett
Brigon
1928
Die Hotelratte
Hüsgens
1928
Die Pflicht zu schweigen
Iwan Daniloff
1928
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
1928
Manege
Bela Garay
1928
The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
Georgakopoulos
1927
Die weiße Spinne
1927
Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell
Meyers
1927
Das tanzende Wien
Feuerwehrmann
1927
Girls for Sale!
Kastillo
1927
Agitated Woman
Wladimir
1927
Ein Tag der Rosen im August..
Boxer
1927
Die schönsten Beine von Berlin
1927
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
1927
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
Club Manager
1927
Der Soldat der Marie
Wachmeister Knöppke
1927
A Crazy Night
Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
1927
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
1927
Der große Unbekannte
Bankier Tupperwill
1927
Benno Stehkragen
1927
Wer wirft den ersten Stein?
1927
Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier
Photograph
1926
The White Horse Inn
1926
Annemarie und ihr Ulan
Wachtmeister
1926
Die drei Mannequins
1926
The Golden Butterfly
1926
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
1926
Halbseide
Willi Krach
1925
Variety
Hafenarbeiter
1925
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
1925
Die Schmiede
1924
Der Held des Tages
1921