Kurt Gerron

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

People on Sunday
People on Sunday
The Three from the Filling Station
The Three from the Filling Station
Manege
Manege
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
We Need No Money
We Need No Money
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
The White Horse Inn
The White Horse Inn

Filmography

2003 Prisoner of Paradise
as Self (archival footage)
1944 Theresienstadt
as Regisseur - Schauspieler
1940 The Eternal Jew
as (archive footage)
1933 Her Majesty Love
as Hornberg
1932 Vater geht auf Reisen
as Kommissar
1932 Two in a Car
as Agent Niedlich
1931 We Need No Money
as Bank President Binder
1931 One Night at the Grand Hotel
as Achaz
1931 Bombs Over Monte Carlo
as Spielbankdirektor
1931 Trapeze
as
1931 Madame Pompadour
as Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
1930 Burglars
as Polizeikommissar
1930 Dolly is making a career
as Silbermann
1930 The Three from the Filling Station
as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
1930 Fairground People
as
1930 The Blue Angel
as Kiepert
1930 Love in the Ring
as Box-Manager
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