Kurt Gerron
Known For
Acting
Born
1897-05-11 in Berlin, Germany
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.
Most Known For
Unmoral
as Matrosenemil
Burglars
as Polizeikommissar
Accident
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
as Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
as Club Manager
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
The Blue Angel
as Kiepert
Die Hotelratte
as Hüsgens
The Eternal Jew
as (archive footage)
Annemarie und ihr Ulan
as Wachtmeister
Theresienstadt
as Regisseur - Schauspieler
Trapeze
Diary of a Lost Girl
as Dr. Vitalis
Variety
as Hafenarbeiter
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
as guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
Prisoner of Paradise
as Self (archival footage)
People on Sunday
as Kurt
Daughter of the Regiment
as Quippo
The Three from the Filling Station
as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
Dolly is making a career
as Silbermann