Kurt Gerron
Actor, Director
May 11, 1897 — October 30, 1944 (47 years)
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.
Known For
Filmography
| 1940 | The Eternal Jew · as (archive Footage) |
| 1931 | Man braucht kein Geld · as Bank President Binder |
| 1931 | Bombs Over Monte Carlo · as Spielbankdirektor |
| 1931 | Road to Rio · as Barera, Casino Owner |
| 1931 | Her Majesty Love · as Hornberg |
| 1930 | Murder for Sale · as Polizeikommissar |
| 1930 | Three from the Filling Station · as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus |
| 1930 | Dolly macht Karriere · as Silbermann |
| 1930 | |
| 1930 | The Blue Angel · as Kiepert |
| 1930 | People on Sunday · as Kurt |
| 1929 | The White Hell of Pitz Palu · as Guest At Night Club (mann Im Salon) |
| 1929 | Diary of a Lost Girl · as Dr. Vitalis |
| 1927 | |
| 1927 | Üb' immer Treu' und Redlichkeit · as Yvettes Mann |
| 1927 | A Crazy Night · as Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl |
| 1925 | Variety · as Hafenarbeiter |
| 1922 | Frau Sünde · as Cast |
| 1921 | Die Apotheke des Teufels · as Apotheker |
| 1920 | Spuk auf Schloß Kitay · as Diener Flipp |
| 2002 | Prisoner of Paradise · as Self (archival Footage) |
| 2000 | They Fought Back! · as Self |
| 1999 | Kurt Gerron's Karussell · as Self |