Kurt Gerron
Acting
Born May 11, 1897 · 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…
Known For · 40 titles
Der große Unbekannte
Accident
The Blue Angel
Trapeze
Drie wenschen
Daughter of the Regiment
Benno Stehkragen
Diary of a Lost Girl
The Eternal Jew
Burglars
People on Sunday
One Night at the Grand Hotel
Theresienstadt
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Die Hotelratte
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
Der Held des Tages
Der Soldat der Marie
Berlin After Dark
Ein Tag der Rosen im August..
The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
Die Schmiede
Die drei Mannequins
Vater geht auf Reisen
Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
Unmoral
The Three from the Filling Station
Madame Pompadour
Prisoner of Paradise
Wer wirft den ersten Stein?
Dolly is making a career
Variety
Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell
Halbseide
Road to Rio
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
We Need No Money
The Alley Cat
Two in a Car