Kurt Gerron
ActingAlso Known As
Kurt Gerson
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.
Movies
(62 total)
The Blue Angel
as Kiepert
Diary of a Lost Girl
as Dr. Vitalis
People on Sunday
as Kurt
The Eternal Jew
as (archive footage)
Variety
as Hafenarbeiter
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
as guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
The Three from the Filling Station
as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
Theresienstadt
as Regisseur - Schauspieler
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
as Spielbankdirektor
Burglars
as Polizeikommissar
Road to Rio
as Barera, casino owner
Love in the Ring
as Box-Manager
Prisoner of Paradise
as Self (archival footage)
We Need No Money
as Bank President Binder
A Crazy Night
as Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
Manege
as Bela Garay
