Kurt Gerron
May 11, 1897 (128 years old) in Berlin, Germany
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
Credits
- 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
- 1929 · Wir halten fest und treu zusammen as Steak
- 1929 · Die Flucht vor der Liebe as
- 1929 · Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim as Steak
- 1929 · Daughter of the Regiment as Quippo
- 1929 · The Alley Cat as
- 1929 · Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur as Maxe
- 1928 · Unmoral as Matrosenemil
- 1928 · Accident as
- 1928 · Casanovas Erbe as
- 1928 · Heut tanzt Mariett as Brigon
- 1928 · Die Hotelratte as Hüsgens
- 1928 · Die Pflicht zu schweigen as Iwan Daniloff
- 1928 · The Strange Case of Captain Ramper as
- 1928 · Manege as Bela Garay
- 1927 · The Transformation of Dr. Bessel as Georgakopoulos
- 1927 · Die weiße Spinne as
- 1927 · Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell as Meyers
- 1927 · Das tanzende Wien as Feuerwehrmann
- 1927 · Girls for Sale! as Kastillo
- 1927 · Agitated Woman as Wladimir
- 1927 · Ein Tag der Rosen im August.. as Boxer
- 1927 · Die schönsten Beine von Berlin as
- 1927 · Fighting the White Slave Traffic as Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
- 1927 · Fighting the White Slave Traffic as Club Manager
- 1927 · Der Soldat der Marie as Wachmeister Knöppke
- 1927 · A Crazy Night as Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
- 1927 · Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen as
- 1927 · Der große Unbekannte as Bankier Tupperwill
- 1927 · Benno Stehkragen as
- 1927 · Wer wirft den ersten Stein? as
- 1926 · Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier as Photograph
- 1926 · The White Horse Inn as
- 1926 · Annemarie und ihr Ulan as Wachtmeister
- 1926 · Die drei Mannequins as
- 1926 · The Golden Butterfly as
- 1926 · Der Liebe Lust und Leid as
- 1925 · Halbseide as Willi Krach
- 1925 · Variety as Hafenarbeiter
- 1925 · O alte Burschenherrlichkeit as
- 1924 · Die Schmiede as
- 1921 · Der Held des Tages as