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
The Blue Angel
Kiepert
Diary of a Lost Girl
Dr. Vitalis
People on Sunday
Kurt
The Eternal Jew
(archive footage)
Variety
Hafenarbeiter
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
The Three from the Filling Station
Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
Accident
Theresienstadt
Regisseur - Schauspieler
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Spielbankdirektor
Burglars
Polizeikommissar
Road to Rio
Barera, casino owner
Love in the Ring
Box-Manager
Prisoner of Paradise
Self (archival footage)
We Need No Money
Bank President Binder
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
The Alley Cat
Fairground People
A Crazy Night
Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
Manege
Bela Garay
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
The White Horse Inn
Two in a Car
Agent Niedlich
Madame Pompadour
Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
Die Schmiede
The Golden Butterfly
Her Majesty Love
Hornberg
Der große Unbekannte
Bankier Tupperwill
Dolly is making a career
Silbermann
Benno Stehkragen
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
Girls for Sale!
Kastillo
Heut tanzt Mariett
Brigon
The Fugitive Lover
Georgakopoulos, Greek Tabaco-Merchant
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses