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Kurt Gerron

Actor, Director
Born May 11, 1897Died 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

  • The Blue Angel
  • People on Sunday
  • Variety
  • The White Hell of Pitz Palu
  • Three from the Filling Station
  • Stupéfiants
  • Het mysterie van de Mondscheinsonate
  • Man braucht kein Geld
  • Her Majesty Love
  • Fair People

Kurt Gerron 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
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
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
1999

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