Kurt Gerron
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1897-05-11 (47 years old)
Deathday
1944-10-30
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
Also known As
Kurt Gerson
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 pu...
Acting
1930
as Kurt
1930
as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
1928
as Bela Garay
1929
as guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
1929
1931
as Achaz
1931
as Bank President Binder
1931
as Spielbankdirektor
1932
as Agent Niedlich
1931
as Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
1924
1925
as Willi Krach
1925
as Hafenarbeiter
1944
as Regisseur - Schauspieler
1940
as (archive footage)
1930
as Polizeikommissar
1930
as Box-Manager
1933
as Hornberg
1929
as Dr. Vitalis
1929
1927
as Bankier Tupperwill
1930
as Silbermann
1927
1927
as Boxer
1929
as Steak
1927
as Kastillo
1928
as Brigon
1928
as Iwan Daniloff
1927
as Georgakopoulos
1927
as Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
1932
as Kommissar
1927
as Feuerwehrmann
1927
as Wachmeister Knöppke
1927
as Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
1927
1926
as Photograph
1926
as Wachtmeister
1929
as Maxe
1928
as Hüsgens
1928
as Matrosenemil
1927
as Meyers
1927
as Wladimir
1928
1930
as Kiepert
1929
as Quippo
1931
2003
as Self (archival footage)
1928
1927
as Club Manager
Production
1932
as Director
1936
as Director
1935
as Director
1933
as Director
1931
as Director
1932
as Director
1931
as Director
1932
as Director
1932
as Director
1935
as Director
1944
as Director
1944
as Writer
1933
as Director
1931
as Director
1926
as Director
1933
as Writer
1933
as Director
1934
as Director
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