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