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