Kurt Gerron
Actor
Born May 11, 1897 in Berlin, Germany
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
Prisoner of Paradise
Self (archival footage)
Theresienstadt
Regisseur - Schauspieler
The Eternal Jew
(archive footage)
Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood
The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten
Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming
Heut' kommt's drauf an
Her Majesty Love
Hornberg
Stupéfiants
The White Demon
A Mad Idea
Two in a Car
Agent Niedlich
Things Are Getting Better Already
We Need No Money
Bank President Binder
My Wife, the Adventuress
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Spielbankdirektor
Trapeze
The mute of Portici
Road to Rio
Barera, casino owner
Madame Pompadour
Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
Burglars
Polizeikommissar
Dolly is making a career
Silbermann
The Three from the Filling Station
Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
Fairground People
The Blue Angel
Kiepert
Love in the Ring
Box-Manager
People on Sunday
Kurt
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
Diary of a Lost Girl
Dr. Vitalis
Die Flucht vor der Liebe
Daughter of the Regiment
Quippo
Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
Maxe
The Alley Cat
Accident
Heut tanzt Mariett
Brigon
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
Manege
Bela Garay
The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
Georgakopoulos
Die weiße Spinne
Das tanzende Wien
Feuerwehrmann
Girls for Sale!
Kastillo
Agitated Woman
Wladimir
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
A Crazy Night
Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
Der große Unbekannte
Bankier Tupperwill
Benno Stehkragen
The White Horse Inn
Die drei Mannequins
The Golden Butterfly
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
Halbseide
Willi Krach
Variety
Hafenarbeiter
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
Die Schmiede