Kurt Gerron

Kurt Gerron

5/11/1897 – 10/30/1944Berlin, 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.

Filmography (63 titles)

Prisoner of Paradise6.8Movie

Prisoner of Paradise

Self (archival footage) · 2003

Theresienstadt3.0Movie

Theresienstadt

Regisseur - Schauspieler · 1944

The Eternal Jew4.7Movie

The Eternal Jew

(archive footage) · 1940

Movie

Drie wenschen

1937

Her Majesty Love10.0Movie

Her Majesty Love

Hornberg · 1933

10.0Movie

Vater geht auf Reisen

Kommissar · 1932

Two in a Car8.0Movie

Two in a Car

Agent Niedlich · 1932

We Need No Money6.3Movie

We Need No Money

Bank President Binder · 1931

7.8Movie

One Night at the Grand Hotel

Achaz · 1931

Bombs Over Monte Carlo6.4Movie

Bombs Over Monte Carlo

Spielbankdirektor · 1931

Trapeze10.0Movie

Trapeze

1931

Road to Rio6.0Movie

Road to Rio

Barera, casino owner · 1931

Madame Pompadour9.0Movie

Madame Pompadour

Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich · 1931

Burglars6.4Movie

Burglars

Polizeikommissar · 1930

Dolly is making a career10.0Movie

Dolly is making a career

Silbermann · 1930

The Three from the Filling Station6.2Movie

The Three from the Filling Station

Rechtsanwalt Kalmus · 1930

Fairground People8.0Movie

Fairground People

1930

The Blue Angel7.3Movie

The Blue Angel

Kiepert · 1930

Love in the Ring6.5Movie

Love in the Ring

Box-Manager · 1930

People on Sunday7.2Movie

People on Sunday

Kurt · 1930

The White Hell of Pitz Palu6.9Movie

The White Hell of Pitz Palu

guest at night club (Mann im Salon) · 1929

Diary of a Lost Girl7.3Movie

Diary of a Lost Girl

Dr. Vitalis · 1929

7.0Movie

Wir halten fest und treu zusammen

Steak · 1929

Die Flucht vor der Liebe9.0Movie

Die Flucht vor der Liebe

1929

9.0Movie

Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim

Steak · 1929

Daughter of the Regiment8.0Movie

Daughter of the Regiment

Quippo · 1929

9.0Movie

Berlin After Dark

Jernmax · 1929

Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur7.0Movie

Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur

Maxe · 1929

The Alley Cat9.5Movie

The Alley Cat

1929

10.0Movie

Unmoral

Matrosenemil · 1928