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.
Filmography
Prisoner of Paradise
2003
as Self (archival footage)
Theresienstadt
1944
as Regisseur - Schauspieler
The Eternal Jew
1940
as (archive footage)
- No poster
Drie wenschen
1937
Her Majesty Love
1933
as Hornberg
- No poster
Vater geht auf Reisen
1932
as Kommissar
Two in a Car
1932
as Agent Niedlich
We Need No Money
1931
as Bank President Binder
- No poster
One Night at the Grand Hotel
1931
as Achaz
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
1931
as Spielbankdirektor
Trapeze
1931
Road to Rio
1931
as Barera, casino owner
Madame Pompadour
1931
as Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
Burglars
1930
as Polizeikommissar
Dolly is making a career
1930
as Silbermann
The Three from the Filling Station
1930
as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
Fairground People
1930
The Blue Angel
1930
as Kiepert
Love in the Ring
1930
as Box-Manager
People on Sunday
1930
as Kurt
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
1929
as guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
Diary of a Lost Girl
1929
as Dr. Vitalis
- No poster
Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
1929
as Steak
Die Flucht vor der Liebe
1929