Kurt Gerron
Acting
Born: 1897-05-11 · Berlin, Germany
Died: 1944-10-30
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-M
🎬 Movies (30)
Prisoner of Paradise
2003
Self (archival footage)
Theresienstadt
1944
Regisseur - Schauspieler
The Eternal Jew
1940
(archive footage)
Drie wenschen
1937
Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood
1936
Director
The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata
1935
Director
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten
1935
Director
Incognito
1934
Director
Her Majesty Love
1933
Hornberg
Heut' kommt's drauf an
1933
Director
Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming
1933
Director
A Woman at the Wheel
1933
Director
Two in a Car
1932
Agent Niedlich
Vater geht auf Reisen
1932
Kommissar
A Mad Idea
1932
Director
Things Are Getting Better Already
1932
Director
The White Demon
1932
Director
Stupéfiants
1932
Director
One Night at the Grand Hotel
1931
Achaz
We Need No Money
1931
Bank President Binder
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
1931
Spielbankdirektor
Madame Pompadour
1931
Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
Trapeze
1931
Road to Rio
1931
Barera, casino owner
My Wife, the Adventuress
1931
Director
The mute of Portici
1931
Director
Cabaret program No. 1
1931
Director
Kabarett-Programm Nr. 2
1931
Director
People on Sunday
1930
Kurt
The Three from the Filling Station
1930
Rechtsanwalt Kalmus