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.

Known For

The Blue Angel

People on Sunday

The Eternal Jew

Diary of a Lost Girl

We Need No Money

Accident

Variety

Bombs Over Monte Carlo

All Movies (64)

• Prisoner of Paradise2003 · as Self (archival footage)
• Theresienstadt1944 · as Regisseur - Schauspieler
• The Eternal Jew1940 · as (archive footage)
• Drie wenschen1937
• Her Majesty Love1933 · as Hornberg
• Vater geht auf Reisen1932 · as Kommissar
• Two in a Car1932 · as Agent Niedlich
• We Need No Money1931 · as Bank President Binder
• One Night at the Grand Hotel1931 · as Achaz
• Bombs Over Monte Carlo1931 · as Spielbankdirektor
• Trapeze1931
• Road to Rio1931 · as Barera, casino owner
• Madame Pompadour1931 · as Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
• Burglars1930 · as Polizeikommissar
• Dolly is making a career1930 · as Silbermann
• The Three from the Filling Station1930 · as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
• Fairground People1930
• The Blue Angel1930 · as Kiepert
• Love in the Ring1930 · as Box-Manager
• People on Sunday1930 · as Kurt
• The White Hell of Pitz Palu1929 · as guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
• Diary of a Lost Girl1929 · as Dr. Vitalis
• Wir halten fest und treu zusammen1929 · as Steak
• Die Flucht vor der Liebe1929
• Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim1929 · as Steak
• Daughter of the Regiment1929 · as Quippo
• Berlin After Dark1929 · as Jernmax
• Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur1929 · as Maxe
• The Alley Cat1929
• Unmoral1928 · as Matrosenemil
• Accident1928
• Casanovas Erbe1928
• Heut tanzt Mariett1928 · as Brigon
• Die Hotelratte1928 · as Hüsgens
• Die Pflicht zu schweigen1928 · as Iwan Daniloff
• The Strange Case of Captain Ramper1928
• Manege1928 · as Bela Garay
• The Transformation of Dr. Bessel1927 · as Georgakopoulos
• Die weiße Spinne1927
• Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell1927 · as Meyers
• Das tanzende Wien1927 · as Feuerwehrmann
• Girls for Sale!1927 · as Kastillo
• Agitated Woman1927 · as Wladimir
• Ein Tag der Rosen im August..1927 · as Boxer
• Die schönsten Beine von Berlin1927
• Fighting the White Slave Traffic1927 · as Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
• Fighting the White Slave Traffic1927 · as Club Manager
• Der Soldat der Marie1927 · as Wachmeister Knöppke
• A Crazy Night1927 · as Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
• Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen1927
• Der große Unbekannte1927 · as Bankier Tupperwill
• Benno Stehkragen1927
• Wer wirft den ersten Stein?1927
• Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier1926 · as Photograph
• The White Horse Inn1926
• Annemarie und ihr Ulan1926 · as Wachtmeister
• Die drei Mannequins1926
• The Golden Butterfly1926
• Der Liebe Lust und Leid1926
• Halbseide1925 · as Willi Krach
• Variety1925 · as Hafenarbeiter
• O alte Burschenherrlichkeit1925
• Die Schmiede1924
• Der Held des Tages1921