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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

79

Gender

Male

Birthday

1897-05-11

Day of Death

1944-10-30 (47 years old)

Place of Birth

Berlin, Germany

Also Known As

Kurt Gerson

Kurt Gerron

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.

Known For

Acting

The Three from the Filling Station

1930

The Three from the Filling Station

as

Rechtsanwalt Kalmus

Manege

1928

Manege

as

Bela Garay

The White Hell of Pitz Palu

1929

The White Hell of Pitz Palu

as

guest at night club (Mann im Salon)

We Need No Money

1931

We Need No Money

as

Bank President Binder

Bombs Over Monte Carlo

1931

Bombs Over Monte Carlo

as

Spielbankdirektor

Two in a Car

1932

Two in a Car

as

Agent Niedlich

Madame Pompadour

1931

Madame Pompadour

as

Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich

Halbseide

1925

Halbseide

as

Willi Krach

Variety

1925

Variety

as

Hafenarbeiter

Theresienstadt

1944

Theresienstadt

as

Regisseur - Schauspieler

The Eternal Jew

1940

The Eternal Jew

as

(archive footage)

Burglars

1930

Burglars

as

Polizeikommissar

Love in the Ring

1930

Love in the Ring

as

Box-Manager

Her Majesty Love

1933

Her Majesty Love

as

Hornberg

Diary of a Lost Girl

1929

Diary of a Lost Girl

as

Dr. Vitalis

Der große Unbekannte

1927

Der große Unbekannte

as

Bankier Tupperwill

Dolly is making a career

1930

Dolly is making a career

as

Silbermann

Girls for Sale!

1927

Girls for Sale!

as

Kastillo

Heut tanzt Mariett

1928

Heut tanzt Mariett

as

Brigon

Die Pflicht zu schweigen

1928

Die Pflicht zu schweigen

as

Iwan Daniloff

Fighting the White Slave Traffic

1927

Fighting the White Slave Traffic

as

Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses

Vater geht auf Reisen

1932

Vater geht auf Reisen

as

Kommissar

Das tanzende Wien

1927

Das tanzende Wien

as

Feuerwehrmann

Der Soldat der Marie

1927

Der Soldat der Marie

as

Wachmeister Knöppke

A Crazy Night

1927

A Crazy Night

as

Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl

Annemarie und ihr Ulan

1926

Annemarie und ihr Ulan

as

Wachtmeister

Die Hotelratte

1928

Die Hotelratte

as

Hüsgens

Unmoral

1928

Unmoral

as

Matrosenemil

Agitated Woman

1927

Agitated Woman

as

Wladimir

Accident

1928

Accident

as

The Blue Angel

1930

The Blue Angel

as

Kiepert

Trapeze

1931

Trapeze

as

Prisoner of Paradise

2003

Prisoner of Paradise

as

Self (archival footage)

Production

Crew

Directing