Known For
Acting
Born
May 11, 1897
Died
Oct 30, 1944
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
Credits
78 titles
Kurt Gerron
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
Filmography
Prisoner of Paradise
Self (archival footage)
Theresienstadt
Regisseur - Schauspieler
The Eternal Jew
(archive footage)
Drie wenschen
Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood
Director
The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata
Director
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten
Director
Incognito
Director
A Woman at the Wheel
Director
Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming
Director
Heut' kommt's drauf an
Director
Her Majesty Love
Hornberg
Stupéfiants
Director
The White Demon
Director
A Mad Idea
Director
Vater geht auf Reisen
Kommissar
Two in a Car
Agent Niedlich
Things Are Getting Better Already
Director
We Need No Money
Bank President Binder
One Night at the Grand Hotel
Achaz
Kabarett-Programm Nr. 2
Director
My Wife, the Adventuress
Director
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Spielbankdirektor
Trapeze
Cabaret program No. 1
Director
The mute of Portici
Director
Road to Rio
Barera, casino owner
Madame Pompadour
Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
Burglars
Polizeikommissar
Dolly is making a career
Silbermann
The Three from the Filling Station
Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
Fairground People
The Blue Angel
Kiepert
Love in the Ring
Box-Manager
People on Sunday
Kurt
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
Diary of a Lost Girl
Dr. Vitalis
Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
Steak
Die Flucht vor der Liebe
Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
Steak
Daughter of the Regiment
Quippo
Berlin After Dark
Jernmax
Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
Maxe
The Alley Cat
Unmoral
Matrosenemil
Accident
Casanovas Erbe
Heut tanzt Mariett
Brigon
Die Hotelratte
Hüsgens
Die Pflicht zu schweigen
Iwan Daniloff