Kurt Gerron
Born: 1897-05-11 in Berlin, Germany
Died: 1944-10-30
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2003
- Prisoner of Paradise as Self (archival footage)
1944
- Theresienstadt as Regisseur - Schauspieler
1940
- The Eternal Jew as (archive footage)
1937
1936
- Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood ... (Director)
1935
- Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten ... (Director)
- The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata ... (Director)
1934
- Incognito ... (Director)
1933
- Her Majesty Love as Hornberg
- A Woman at the Wheel ... (Director)
- Heut' kommt's drauf an ... (Director)
- Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming ... (Director)
1932
- Stupéfiants ... (Director)
- Things Are Getting Better Already ... (Director)
- The White Demon ... (Director)
- Two in a Car as Agent Niedlich
- Vater geht auf Reisen as Kommissar
- A Mad Idea ... (Director)
1931
- Trapeze
- My Wife, the Adventuress ... (Director)
- We Need No Money as Bank President Binder
- Bombs Over Monte Carlo as Spielbankdirektor
- The mute of Portici ... (Director)
- Cabaret program No. 1 ... (Director)
- Road to Rio as Barera, casino owner
- One Night at the Grand Hotel as Achaz
- Madame Pompadour as Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
- Kabarett-Programm Nr. 2 ... (Director)
1930
- The Blue Angel as Kiepert
- Burglars as Polizeikommissar
- People on Sunday as Kurt
- The Three from the Filling Station as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
- Love in the Ring as Box-Manager
- Dolly is making a career as Silbermann
- Fairground People
1929
- The White Hell of Pitz Palu as guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
- Diary of a Lost Girl as Dr. Vitalis
- Daughter of the Regiment as Quippo
- Wir halten fest und treu zusammen as Steak
- Die Flucht vor der Liebe
- Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur as Maxe
- Berlin After Dark as Jernmax
- Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim as Steak
- The Alley Cat
1928
- Die Hotelratte as Hüsgens
- Accident
- Unmoral as Matrosenemil
- Die Pflicht zu schweigen as Iwan Daniloff
- Casanovas Erbe
- Manege as Bela Garay
- Heut tanzt Mariett as Brigon
- The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
1927
- Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell as Meyers
- Der große Unbekannte as Bankier Tupperwill
- Girls for Sale! as Kastillo
- Der Soldat der Marie as Wachmeister Knöppke
- Fighting the White Slave Traffic as Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
- Benno Stehkragen
- The Fugitive Lover as Georgakopoulos, Greek Tabaco-Merchant
- Wer wirft den ersten Stein?
- Ein Tag der Rosen im August.. as Boxer
- Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
- Die schönsten Beine von Berlin
- Agitated Woman as Wladimir
- Das tanzende Wien as Feuerwehrmann
- Die weiße Spinne
- A Crazy Night as Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
1926
- Annemarie und ihr Ulan as Wachtmeister
- Der Liebe Lust und Leid
- Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier as Photograph
- The Golden Butterfly
- Die drei Mannequins
- The White Horse Inn
1925
- Variety as Hafenarbeiter
- O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
- Halbseide as Willi Krach