Kurt Gerron
Acting
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.
Filmography 78
Movies (78)
Prisoner of Paradise2003Self (archival footage)
Theresienstadt1944Regisseur - Schauspieler
The Eternal Jew1940(archive footage)- Drie wenschen1937
Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood1936Directing
The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata1935Directing
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten1935Directing- Incognito1934Directing
- A Woman at the Wheel1933Directing
Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming1933Directing
Heut' kommt's drauf an1933Directing
Her Majesty Love1933Hornberg
Stupéfiants1932Directing
The White Demon1932Directing
A Mad Idea1932Directing- Vater geht auf Reisen1932Kommissar
Two in a Car1932Agent Niedlich
Things Are Getting Better Already1932Directing
We Need No Money1931Bank President Binder- One Night at the Grand Hotel1931Achaz
- Kabarett-Programm Nr. 21931Directing
My Wife, the Adventuress1931Directing
Bombs Over Monte Carlo1931Spielbankdirektor
Trapeze1931- Cabaret program No. 11931Directing
The mute of Portici1931Directing
Road to Rio1931Barera, casino owner
Madame Pompadour1931Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
Burglars1930Polizeikommissar
Dolly is making a career1930Silbermann