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
Acting63
moviePrisoner of Paradise
2003
Self (archival footage)
movieTheresienstadt
1944
Regisseur - Schauspieler
movieThe Eternal Jew
1940
(archive footage)
movieHer Majesty Love
1933
Hornberg
movieTwo in a Car
1932
Agent Niedlich
movieWe Need No Money
1931
Bank President Binder
movieBombs Over Monte Carlo
1931
Spielbankdirektor
movieRoad to Rio
1931
Barera, casino owner
movieMadame Pompadour
1931
Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
movieBurglars
1930
Polizeikommissar
movieDolly is making a career
1930
Silbermann
movieThe Three from the Filling Station
1930
Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
movieThe Blue Angel
1930
Kiepert
movieLove in the Ring
1930
Box-Manager
movieThe White Hell of Pitz Palu
1929
guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
movieDiary of a Lost Girl
1929
Dr. Vitalis
Unmoral
1928
Matrosenemil
movieManege
1928
Bela Garay
movieThe Transformation of Dr. Bessel
1927
Georgakopoulos
movieDas tanzende Wien
1927
Feuerwehrmann
movieGirls for Sale!
1927
Kastillo
movieAgitated Woman
1927
Wladimir
movieFighting the White Slave Traffic
1927
Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses / Club Manager
Der Soldat der Marie
1927
Wachmeister Knöppke
movieA Crazy Night
1927
Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
movieDer große Unbekannte
1927
Bankier Tupperwill
movieHalbseide
1925
Willi Krach
movieVariety
1925
Hafenarbeiter
Directing17
movieTheresienstadt
1944
Director
Incognito
1934
Director
movieHeut' kommt's drauf an
1933
Director
movieStupéfiants
1932
Director
movieThe White Demon
1932
Director
movieA Mad Idea
1932
Director
movieThe mute of Portici
1931
Director
movieDer Liebe Lust und Leid
1926
Director