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.
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Movies (50)
Prisoner of Paradise
as Self (archival footage)
2003
Theresienstadt
as Regisseur - Schauspieler
1944
The Eternal Jew
as (archive footage)
1940
Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood
Director (Directing)
1936
The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata
Director (Directing)
1935
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten
Director (Directing)
1935
Incognito
Director (Directing)
1934
A Woman at the Wheel
Director (Directing)
1933
Kind, ich freu' mich auf Dein Kommen
Director (Directing)
1933
Heut' kommt's drauf an
Director (Directing)
1933
Her Majesty Love
as Hornberg
1933
Stupéfiants
Director (Directing)
1932
The White Demon
Director (Directing)
1932
A Mad Idea
Director (Directing)
1932
Vater geht auf Reisen
as Kommissar
1932
Two in a Car
as Agent Niedlich
1932
Things Are Getting Better Already
Director (Directing)
1932
We Need No Money
as Bank President Binder
1931
One Night at the Grand Hotel
as Achaz
1931
Kabarett-Programm Nr. 2
Director (Directing)
1931
My Wife, the Adventuress
Director (Directing)
1931
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
as Spielbankdirektor
1931
Trapeze
1931
Cabaret program No. 1
Director (Directing)
1931
The mute of Portici
Director (Directing)
1931
Road to Rio
as Barera, casino owner
1931
Madame Pompadour
as Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
1931
Burglars
as Polizeikommissar
1930
Dolly is making a career
as Silbermann
1930
The Three from the Filling Station
as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
1930
Fairground People
1930
The Blue Angel
as Kiepert
1930
Love in the Ring
as Box-Manager
1930
People on Sunday
as Kurt
1930
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
as guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
1929
Diary of a Lost Girl
as Dr. Vitalis
1929
Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
as Steak
1929
Die Flucht vor der Liebe
1929
Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
as Steak
1929
Daughter of the Regiment
as Quippo
1929
Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
as Maxe
1929
The Alley Cat
1929
Unmoral
as Matrosenemil
1928
Accident
1928
Casanovas Erbe
1928
Heut tanzt Mariett
as Brigon
1928
Die Hotelratte
as Hüsgens
1928
Die Pflicht zu schweigen
as Iwan Daniloff
1928
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
1928
Manege
as Bela Garay
1928