Acting
Kurt Gerron
EN, DE, NL, FR cinema · 78 credits
Born
11 May 1897
Died
30 October 1944 (aged 47)
Birthplace
Berlin, Germany
Also known as Kurt Gerson
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
Filmography
Prisoner of Paradise
as Self (archival footage)
Theresienstadt
as Regisseur - Schauspieler, Writer, Director
The Eternal Jew
as (archive footage)
Her Majesty Love
as Hornberg
Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming
Director, Writer
Two in a Car
as Agent Niedlich
A Mad Idea
Director
The White Demon
Director
Stupéfiants
Director
We Need No Money
as Bank President Binder
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
as Spielbankdirektor
Madame Pompadour
as Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
Trapeze
Actor
Road to Rio
as Barera, casino owner
The mute of Portici
Director
People on Sunday
as Kurt
The Three from the Filling Station
as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
Burglars
as Polizeikommissar
Love in the Ring
as Box-Manager
Dolly is making a career
as Silbermann
The Blue Angel
as Kiepert
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
as guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
Diary of a Lost Girl
as Dr. Vitalis
Daughter of the Regiment
as Quippo
Manege
as Bela Garay
Die Pflicht zu schweigen
1928
Die Pflicht zu schweigen
as Iwan Daniloff
Heut tanzt Mariett
as Brigon
Unmoral
1928
Unmoral
as Matrosenemil
Accident
Actor
Der große Unbekannte
as Bankier Tupperwill
Girls for Sale!
as Kastillo
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
as Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses, as Club Manager
The Fugitive Lover
as Georgakopoulos, Greek Tabaco-Merchant
Das tanzende Wien
as Feuerwehrmann
Der Soldat der Marie
1927
Der Soldat der Marie
as Wachmeister Knöppke
A Crazy Night
as Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
Agitated Woman
as Wladimir
Annemarie und ihr Ulan
1926
Annemarie und ihr Ulan
as Wachtmeister
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
Actor, Director
Halbseide
as Willi Krach
Variety
as Hafenarbeiter
