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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
People on Sunday
as Kurt
1930
The Three from the Filling Station
as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
1930
Manege
as Bela Garay
1928
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
as guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
1929
Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
as Steak
1929
One Night at the Grand Hotel
as Achaz
1931
We Need No Money
as Bank President Binder
1931
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
1927
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
as Spielbankdirektor
1931
The White Horse Inn
1926
Two in a Car
as Agent Niedlich
1932
Madame Pompadour
as Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
1931
Die Schmiede
1924
Halbseide
as Willi Krach
1925
The Golden Butterfly
1926
Variety
as Hafenarbeiter
1925
Theresienstadt
as Regisseur - Schauspieler
1944
The Eternal Jew
as (archive footage)
1940
Burglars
as Polizeikommissar
1930
Love in the Ring
as Box-Manager
1930