Kurt Gerron
Acting
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
2003Prisoner of Paradise
Self (archival footage)
1944Theresienstadt
Regisseur - Schauspieler
1940The Eternal Jew
(archive footage)
1933Her Majesty Love
Hornberg
1932Two in a Car
Agent Niedlich
1931We Need No Money
Bank President Binder
1931Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Spielbankdirektor
1931Madame Pompadour
Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
1931Trapeze
1931Road to Rio
Barera, casino owner
1930People on Sunday
Kurt
1930The Three from the Filling Station
Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
1930Burglars
Polizeikommissar
1930Love in the Ring
Box-Manager
1930Fairground People
1930Dolly is making a career
Silbermann
1930The Blue Angel
Kiepert
1929The White Hell of Pitz Palu
guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
1929Diary of a Lost Girl
Dr. Vitalis
1929The Alley Cat
1929Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
Maxe
1929Die Flucht vor der Liebe
1929Daughter of the Regiment
Quippo
1928Manege
Bela Garay
