Kurt Gerron
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.
45
Films
0
TV Shows
13
Crew Credits
Known For
45 Credits
Burglars
as Polizeikommissar
1930
Accident
1928
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
as Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
1927
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
as Club Manager
1927
The Blue Angel
as Kiepert
1930
The Eternal Jew
as (archive footage)
1940
Diary of a Lost Girl
as Dr. Vitalis
1929
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
1925
Variety
as Hafenarbeiter
1925
People on Sunday
as Kurt
1930
The Three from the Filling Station
as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
1930
Prisoner of Paradise
as Self (archival footage)
2003
Behind the Camera
13 Credits
Stupéfiants
Director
1932
Theresienstadt
Writer, Director
1944
A Mad Idea
Director
1932
The White Demon
Director
1932
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten
Director
1935
Kind, ich freu' mich auf Dein Kommen
Director, Writer
1933
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
Director
1926
My Wife, the Adventuress
Director
1931
The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata
Director
1935
The mute of Portici
Director
1931
Heut' kommt's drauf an
Director
1933
Things Are Getting Better Already
Director
1932