Kurt Gerron
Acting
Born: 1897-05-11 in Berlin, Germany
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
Accident
The Blue Angel
Kiepert
Drie wenschen
Der große Unbekannte
Bankier Tupperwill
The Eternal Jew
(archive footage)
Daughter of the Regiment
Quippo
Burglars
Polizeikommissar
Theresienstadt
Regisseur - Schauspieler
Trapeze
People on Sunday
Kurt
Die Schmiede
The Fugitive Lover
Georgakopoulos, Greek Tabaco-Merchant
Benno Stehkragen
Diary of a Lost Girl
Dr. Vitalis
The Three from the Filling Station
Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
Wer wirft den ersten Stein?
The Alley Cat
Madame Pompadour
Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Spielbankdirektor
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
Variety
Hafenarbeiter
Prisoner of Paradise
Self (archival footage)
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
We Need No Money
Bank President Binder
Two in a Car
Agent Niedlich
The Golden Butterfly
Fairground People
Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell
Meyers
Road to Rio
Barera, casino owner
Love in the Ring
Box-Manager
Dolly is making a career
Silbermann