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Kurt Gerron

Acting Born May 11, 1897 Berlin, Germany 24 credits

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.

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Known for

Film

The Blue Angel

as Kiepert

Full filmography

  • The Blue Angel (1930) as Kiepert
  • The Eternal Jew (1940) as (archive footage)
  • People on Sunday (1930) as Kurt
  • The Three from the Filling Station (1930) as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
  • Daughter of the Regiment (1929) as Quippo
  • Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) as Dr. Vitalis
  • Bombs Over Monte Carlo (1931) as Spielbankdirektor
  • The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) as guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
  • Unmoral (1928) as Matrosenemil
  • Accident (1928)
  • Trapeze (1931)
  • Prisoner of Paradise (2003) as Self (archival footage)
  • Her Majesty Love (1933) as Hornberg
  • Variety (1925) as Hafenarbeiter
  • One Night at the Grand Hotel (1931) as Achaz
  • Road to Rio (1931) as Barera, casino owner
  • We Need No Money (1931) as Bank President Binder
  • Annemarie und ihr Ulan (1926) as Wachtmeister
  • The Transformation of Dr. Bessel (1927) as Georgakopoulos
  • Theresienstadt (1944) as Regisseur - Schauspieler
  • Vater geht auf Reisen (1932) as Kommissar
  • Wir halten fest und treu zusammen (1929) as Steak
  • Ein Tag der Rosen im August.. (1927) as Boxer
  • The Alley Cat (1929)