Kurt Gerron
Actor
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.
As Director
A Mad Idea
1932
Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood
1936
The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata
1935
Stupéfiants
1932
Heut' kommt's drauf an
1933
My Wife, the Adventuress
1931
Things Are Getting Better Already
1932
The mute of Portici
1931
The White Demon
1932
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten
1935
Kind, ich freu' mich auf Dein Kommen
1933Filmography
The Blue Angel
as Kiepert 1930
Diary of a Lost Girl
as Dr. Vitalis 1929
People on Sunday
as Kurt 1930
The Eternal Jew
as (archive footage) 1940
Variety
as Hafenarbeiter 1925
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
as guest at night club (Mann im Salon) 1929
The Three from the Filling Station
as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus 1930
Accident
1928
Theresienstadt
as Regisseur - Schauspieler 1944
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
as Spielbankdirektor 1931
Burglars
as Polizeikommissar 1930
Road to Rio
as Barera, casino owner 1931
Love in the Ring
as Box-Manager 1930
Prisoner of Paradise
as Self (archival footage) 2003
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
1928
One Night at the Grand Hotel
as Achaz 1931
We Need No Money
as Bank President Binder 1931