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
- Heut' kommt's drauf an ... (Director)
- Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming ... (Director)
- Her Majesty Love as Hornberg
- A Woman at the Wheel ... (Director)
1932
- Stupéfiants ... (Director)
- The White Demon ... (Director)
- A Mad Idea ... (Director)
- Vater geht auf Reisen as Kommissar
- Things Are Getting Better Already ... (Director)
- Two in a Car as Agent Niedlich
1931
- Trapeze
- Bombs Over Monte Carlo as Spielbankdirektor
- The mute of Portici ... (Director)
- One Night at the Grand Hotel as Achaz
- Cabaret program No. 1 ... (Director)
- My Wife, the Adventuress ... (Director)
- Madame Pompadour as Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
- We Need No Money as Bank President Binder
- Road to Rio as Barera, casino owner
- 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
- Diary of a Lost Girl as Dr. Vitalis
- Daughter of the Regiment as Quippo
- Wir halten fest und treu zusammen as Steak
- The White Hell of Pitz Palu as guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
- Berlin After Dark as Jernmax
- The Alley Cat
- Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim as Steak
- Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur as Maxe
- Die Flucht vor der Liebe
1928
- Accident
- Die Hotelratte as Hüsgens
- Unmoral as Matrosenemil
- The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
- Die Pflicht zu schweigen as Iwan Daniloff
- Manege as Bela Garay
- Heut tanzt Mariett as Brigon
- Casanovas Erbe
1927
- Der große Unbekannte as Bankier Tupperwill
- Fighting the White Slave Traffic as Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
- Benno Stehkragen
- The Transformation of Dr. Bessel as Georgakopoulos
- Der Soldat der Marie as Wachmeister Knöppke
- Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell as Meyers
- Ein Tag der Rosen im August.. as Boxer
- Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
- Wer wirft den ersten Stein?
- Girls for Sale! as Kastillo
- Agitated Woman as Wladimir
- A Crazy Night as Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
- Die schönsten Beine von Berlin
- Das tanzende Wien as Feuerwehrmann
- Die weiße Spinne
1926
- Annemarie und ihr Ulan as Wachtmeister
- Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier as Photograph
- Die drei Mannequins
- The Golden Butterfly
- Der Liebe Lust und Leid
- The White Horse Inn
1925
- Variety as Hafenarbeiter
- O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
- Halbseide as Willi Krach