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.
Acted in 46
1940s
- 1944
Theresienstadt
Regisseur - Schauspieler
- 1940
The Eternal Jew
(archive footage)
1930s
- 1933
Her Majesty Love
Hornberg
- 1932
Two in a Car
Agent Niedlich
- 1931
We Need No Money
Bank President Binder
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Spielbankdirektor
Road to Rio
Barera, casino owner
Madame Pompadour
Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
- 1930
Burglars
Polizeikommissar
Dolly is making a career
Silbermann
The Three from the Filling Station
Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
Fairground People
Movie
Love in the Ring
Box-Manager
1920s
- 1929
Diary of a Lost Girl
Dr. Vitalis
Die Flucht vor der Liebe
Movie
Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
Maxe
The Alley Cat
Movie
- 1928
Accident
Movie
Heut tanzt Mariett
Brigon
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
Movie
Manege
Bela Garay
- 1927
The Fugitive Lover
Georgakopoulos, Greek Tabaco-Merchant
Die weiße Spinne
Movie
Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell
Meyers
Das tanzende Wien
Feuerwehrmann
Girls for Sale!
Kastillo
Agitated Woman
Wladimir
Die schönsten Beine von Berlin
Movie
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses, Club Manager
A Crazy Night
Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
Movie
Der große Unbekannte
Bankier Tupperwill
- 1926
The White Horse Inn
Movie
Die drei Mannequins
Movie
The Golden Butterfly
Movie
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
Movie
- 1925
Halbseide
Willi Krach
Variety
Hafenarbeiter
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
Movie
- 1924
Die Schmiede
Movie
Directed 13
1940s
- 1944
Theresienstadt
Director
1930s
- 1936
Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood
Director
- 1935
The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata
Director
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten
Director
- 1933
Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming
Director
Heut' kommt's drauf an
Director
- 1932
The White Demon
Director
A Mad Idea
Director
Things Are Getting Better Already
Director
- 1931
My Wife, the Adventuress
Director
The mute of Portici
Director
1920s
- 1926
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
Director
Wrote 2
1940s
- 1944
Theresienstadt
Writer
1930s
- 1933
Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming
Writer
Appearances1
2000s
- 2003
Prisoner of Paradise
Self (archival footage)