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Kurt Gerron

Kurt Gerron

Birthday: 1897-05-11 | Place of Birth: 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2003
Prisoner of Paradise

as    Self (archival footage)

1944
Theresienstadt

as    Regisseur - Schauspieler

1940
The Eternal Jew

as    (archive footage)

1933
Her Majesty Love

as    Hornberg

1931
1931
We Need No Money

as    Bank President Binder

1931
Bombs Over Monte Carlo

as    Spielbankdirektor

1930
Love in the Ring

as    Box-Manager

1930
Girls for Sale!

as    Kastillo

1930
The Blue Angel

as    Kiepert

1930
People on Sunday

as    Kurt

1930
Burglars

as    Polizeikommissar

1930
The Three from the Filling Station

as    Rechtsanwalt Kalmus

1930
The White Hell of Pitz Palu

as    guest at night club (Mann im Salon)

1929
1928
Manege

as    Bela Garay

1927
Der große Unbekannte

as    Bankier Tupperwill

1927
Das tanzende Wien

as    Feuerwehrmann

1927
A Crazy Night

as    Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl

1926
Variety

as    Hafenarbeiter