Kurt Gerron
Known for: Acting
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
Film
Accident
1928
Drie wenschen
1937
Film
The Blue Angel
Kiepert
1930
Film
Der große Unbekannte
Bankier Tupperwill
1927
Film
Theresienstadt
Regisseur - Schauspieler
1944
One Night at the Grand Hotel
Achaz
1931
Film
The Eternal Jew
(archive footage)
1940
Film
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Spielbankdirektor
1931
Film
Trapeze
1931
Film
Daughter of the Regiment
Quippo
1929
Film
People on Sunday
Kurt
1930
Film
Burglars
Polizeikommissar
1930
Film
The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
Georgakopoulos
1927
Film
Diary of a Lost Girl
Dr. Vitalis
1929
Die Hotelratte
Hüsgens
1928
Film
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
1927
Film
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
Club Manager
1927
Film
Variety
Hafenarbeiter
1925
Film
Benno Stehkragen
1927
Vater geht auf Reisen
Kommissar
1932
Ein Tag der Rosen im August..
Boxer
1927
Der Soldat der Marie
Wachmeister Knöppke
1927
Unmoral
Matrosenemil
1928
Film
Die drei Mannequins
1926
Berlin After Dark
Jernmax
1929
Film
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
1925
Annemarie und ihr Ulan
Wachtmeister
1926
Film
The Three from the Filling Station
Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
1930
Film
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
1929
Film
Die Schmiede
1924
Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
Steak
1929
Film
Heut tanzt Mariett
Brigon
1928
Film
Prisoner of Paradise
Self (archival footage)
2003
Film
Madame Pompadour
Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
1931
Film
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
1927
Film
Das tanzende Wien
Feuerwehrmann
1927
Film
Dolly is making a career
Silbermann
1930
Film
Girls for Sale!
Kastillo
1927
Film
Road to Rio
Barera, casino owner
1931
Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier
Photograph
1926
Film
A Crazy Night
Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
1927
Der Held des Tages
1921
Wer wirft den ersten Stein?
1927
Die Pflicht zu schweigen
Iwan Daniloff
1928
Film
The White Horse Inn
1926
Film
We Need No Money
Bank President Binder
1931
Film
Her Majesty Love
Hornberg
1933
Film
Fairground People
1930
Casanovas Erbe
1928
Film
Two in a Car
Agent Niedlich
1932
Film
The Alley Cat
1929
Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell
Meyers
1927
Film
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
1928
Film
The Golden Butterfly
1926
Die schönsten Beine von Berlin
1927
Film
Agitated Woman
Wladimir
1927
Film
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
1926
Film
Halbseide
Willi Krach
1925
Film
Die Flucht vor der Liebe
1929
Film
Love in the Ring
Box-Manager
1930
Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
Steak
1929
Film
Die weiße Spinne
1927
Film
Manege
Bela Garay
1928
Film
Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
Maxe
1929