Kurt Gerron
Acting • Born 1897-05-11 – Died 1944-10-30
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.
Filmography
62 credits
People on Sunday
Movie • 1930
Kurt
The Three from the Filling Station
Movie • 1930
Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
Manege
Movie • 1928
Bela Garay
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
Movie • 1929
guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
Movie • 1929
Steak
One Night at the Grand Hotel
Movie • 1931
Achaz
We Need No Money
Movie • 1931
Bank President Binder
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
Movie • 1927
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Movie • 1931
Spielbankdirektor
The White Horse Inn
Movie • 1926
Two in a Car
Movie • 1932
Agent Niedlich
Madame Pompadour
Movie • 1931
Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
Die Schmiede
Movie • 1924
Halbseide
Movie • 1925
Willi Krach
The Golden Butterfly
Movie • 1926
Variety
Movie • 1925
Hafenarbeiter
Theresienstadt
Movie • 1944
Regisseur - Schauspieler
The Eternal Jew
Movie • 1940
(archive footage)
Burglars
Movie • 1930
Polizeikommissar
Love in the Ring
Movie • 1930
Box-Manager
Her Majesty Love
Movie • 1933
Hornberg
Diary of a Lost Girl
Movie • 1929
Dr. Vitalis
The Alley Cat
Movie • 1929
Fairground People
Movie • 1930
Der große Unbekannte
Movie • 1927
Bankier Tupperwill
Dolly is making a career
Movie • 1930
Silbermann
Benno Stehkragen
Movie • 1927
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
Movie • 1925
Ein Tag der Rosen im August..
Movie • 1927
Boxer
Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
Movie • 1929
Steak
Girls for Sale!
Movie • 1927
Kastillo
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
Movie • 1927
Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
Movie • 1927
Georgakopoulos
Die Pflicht zu schweigen
Movie • 1928
Iwan Daniloff
Heut tanzt Mariett
Movie • 1928
Brigon
Der Held des Tages
Movie • 1921
Vater geht auf Reisen
Movie • 1932
Kommissar
Wer wirft den ersten Stein?
Movie • 1927
Das tanzende Wien
Movie • 1927
Feuerwehrmann
Der Soldat der Marie
Movie • 1927
Wachmeister Knöppke
A Crazy Night
Movie • 1927
Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
Die weiße Spinne
Movie • 1927
Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier
Movie • 1926
Photograph
Annemarie und ihr Ulan
Movie • 1926
Wachtmeister
Die drei Mannequins
Movie • 1926
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
Movie • 1926
Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
Movie • 1929
Maxe
Die Hotelratte
Movie • 1928
Hüsgens
Unmoral
Movie • 1928
Matrosenemil
Die schönsten Beine von Berlin
Movie • 1927
Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell
Movie • 1927
Meyers
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
Movie • 1928
Agitated Woman
Movie • 1927
Wladimir
Accident
Movie • 1928
The Blue Angel
Movie • 1930
Kiepert
Die Flucht vor der Liebe
Movie • 1929
Daughter of the Regiment
Movie • 1929
Quippo
Trapeze
Movie • 1931
Prisoner of Paradise
Movie • 2003
Self (archival footage)
Casanovas Erbe
Movie • 1928
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
Movie • 1927
Club Manager
Road to Rio
Movie • 1931
Barera, casino owner