Kurt Gerron
Birthday
1897/05/11
Day of death
1944/10/30 (47 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
Also know as
Kurt Gerson
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-M...Read more
Acting
(1930) People on Sunday
as Kurt
(1930) The Three from the Filling Station
as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
(1928) Manege
as Bela Garay
(1929) The White Hell of Pitz Palu
as guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
(1929) Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
as Steak
(1931) One Night at the Grand Hotel
as Achaz
(1931) We Need No Money
as Bank President Binder
(1927) Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
as ---
(1931) Bombs Over Monte Carlo
as Spielbankdirektor
(1926) The White Horse Inn
as ---
(1932) Two in a Car
as Agent Niedlich
(1931) Madame Pompadour
as Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
(1924) Die Schmiede
as ---
(1925) Halbseide
as Willi Krach
(1926) The Golden Butterfly
as ---
(1925) Variety
as Hafenarbeiter
(1944) Theresienstadt
as Regisseur - Schauspieler
(1940) The Eternal Jew
as (archive footage)
(1930) Burglars
as Polizeikommissar
(1930) Love in the Ring
as Box-Manager
(1933) Her Majesty Love
as Hornberg
(1929) Diary of a Lost Girl
as Dr. Vitalis
(1929) The Alley Cat
as ---
(1930) Fairground People
as ---
(1927) Der große Unbekannte
as Bankier Tupperwill
(1930) Dolly is making a career
as Silbermann
(1927) Benno Stehkragen
as ---
(1925) O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
as ---
(1927) Ein Tag der Rosen im August..
as Boxer
(1929) Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
as Steak
(1927) Girls for Sale!
as Kastillo
(1927) Fighting the White Slave Traffic
as Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
(1927) The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
as Georgakopoulos
(1928) Die Pflicht zu schweigen
as Iwan Daniloff
(1928) Heut tanzt Mariett
as Brigon
(1921) Der Held des Tages
as ---
(1932) Vater geht auf Reisen
as Kommissar
(1927) Wer wirft den ersten Stein?
as ---
(1927) Das tanzende Wien
as Feuerwehrmann
(1927) Der Soldat der Marie
as Wachmeister Knöppke
(1927) A Crazy Night
as Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
(1927) Die weiße Spinne
as ---
(1926) Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier
as Photograph
(1926) Annemarie und ihr Ulan
as Wachtmeister
(1926) Die drei Mannequins
as ---
(1926) Der Liebe Lust und Leid
as ---
(1929) Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
as Maxe
(1928) Die Hotelratte
as Hüsgens
(1928) Unmoral
as Matrosenemil
(1927) Die schönsten Beine von Berlin
as ---
(1927) Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell
as Meyers
(1928) The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
as ---
(1927) Agitated Woman
as Wladimir
(1928) Accident
as ---
(1930) The Blue Angel
as Kiepert
(1929) Die Flucht vor der Liebe
as ---
(1929) Daughter of the Regiment
as Quippo
(1931) Trapeze
as ---
(2003) Prisoner of Paradise
as Self (archival footage)
(1928) Casanovas Erbe
as ---
(1927) Fighting the White Slave Traffic
as Club Manager
(1931) Road to Rio
as Barera, casino owner