Kurt Gerron
Acting
Born 1897-05-11 · 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.
Filmography
Prisoner of Paradise
Mar 7, 2003
Theresienstadt
Jan 1, 1944
The Eternal Jew
Nov 28, 1940
Her Majesty Love
Feb 6, 1933
Two in a Car
Mar 8, 1932
We Need No Money
Dec 24, 1931
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Aug 31, 1931
Trapeze
Aug 14, 1931
Road to Rio
Jan 15, 1931
Madame Pompadour
Jan 8, 1931
Burglars
Dec 15, 1930
Dolly is making a career
Sep 29, 1930
The Three from the Filling Station
Sep 15, 1930
Fairground People
Aug 13, 1930
The Blue Angel
Apr 1, 1930
Love in the Ring
Mar 17, 1930
People on Sunday
Feb 4, 1930
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
Oct 10, 1929
Diary of a Lost Girl
Sep 27, 1929
Die Flucht vor der Liebe
Sep 16, 1929
Daughter of the Regiment
Jun 11, 1929
Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
Feb 28, 1929
The Alley Cat
Feb 1, 1929
Accident
Nov 6, 1928
Heut tanzt Mariett
Mar 15, 1928
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
Jan 11, 1928
Manege
Jan 1, 1928
The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
Dec 8, 1927
Die weiße Spinne
Oct 26, 1927
Das tanzende Wien
Oct 1, 1927