Name
Kurt Gerron
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1897-05-11
Deathday
1944-10-30 (47 years old)
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
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.
Known For
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Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret perf...
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Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. S...
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A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot f...
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A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small b...
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Willy, Kurt and Hans are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then, t...
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Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wi...
- 1930 People on Sunday as Kurt
- 1930 The Three from the Filling Station as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
- 1928 Manege as Bela Garay
- 1929 The White Hell of Pitz Palu as guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
- 1929 Wir halten fest und treu zusammen as Steak
- 1931 One Night at the Grand Hotel as Achaz
- 1931 We Need No Money as Bank President Binder
- 1927 Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
- 1931 Bombs Over Monte Carlo as Spielbankdirektor
- 1926 The White Horse Inn
- 1932 Two in a Car as Agent Niedlich
- 1931 Madame Pompadour as Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
- 1924 Die Schmiede
- 1925 Halbseide as Willi Krach
- 1926 The Golden Butterfly
- 1925 Variety as Hafenarbeiter
- 1944 Theresienstadt as Regisseur - Schauspieler
- 1940 The Eternal Jew as (archive footage)
- 1930 Burglars as Polizeikommissar
- 1930 Love in the Ring as Box-Manager
- 1933 Her Majesty Love as Hornberg
- 1929 Diary of a Lost Girl as Dr. Vitalis
- 1929 The Alley Cat
- 1930 Fairground People
- 1927 Der große Unbekannte as Bankier Tupperwill
- 1930 Dolly is making a career as Silbermann
- 1927 Benno Stehkragen
- 1925 O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
- 1927 Ein Tag der Rosen im August.. as Boxer
- 1929 Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim as Steak
- 1927 Girls for Sale! as Kastillo
- 1928 Heut tanzt Mariett as Brigon
- 1928 Die Pflicht zu schweigen as Iwan Daniloff
- 1927 The Fugitive Lover as Georgakopoulos, Greek Tabaco-Merchant
- 1927 Fighting the White Slave Traffic as Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
- 1921 Der Held des Tages
- 1932 Vater geht auf Reisen as Kommissar
- 1927 Wer wirft den ersten Stein?
- 1927 Das tanzende Wien as Feuerwehrmann
- 1927 Der Soldat der Marie as Wachmeister Knöppke
- 1927 A Crazy Night as Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
- 1927 Die weiße Spinne
- 1926 Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier as Photograph
- 1926 Der Liebe Lust und Leid
- 1926 Annemarie und ihr Ulan as Wachtmeister
- 1926 Die drei Mannequins
- 1929 Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur as Maxe
- 1928 Die Hotelratte as Hüsgens
- 1928 Unmoral as Matrosenemil
- 1927 Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell as Meyers
- 1927 Die schönsten Beine von Berlin
- 1928 The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
- 1927 Agitated Woman as Wladimir
- 1928 Accident
- 1930 The Blue Angel as Kiepert
- 1929 Die Flucht vor der Liebe
- 1929 Daughter of the Regiment as Quippo
- 1931 Trapeze
- 2003 Prisoner of Paradise as Self (archival footage)
- 1928 Casanovas Erbe
- 1927 Fighting the White Slave Traffic as Club Manager
- 1931 Road to Rio as Barera, casino owner
- 1929 Berlin After Dark as Jernmax
- 1937 Drie wenschen
