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.
63 acting credits · 17 directing credits
Acting · 63
The Blue Angel
1930
The Eternal Jew
1940
People on Sunday
1930
Variety
1925
Diary of a Lost Girl
1929
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
1929
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
1931
Trapeze
1931
Burglars
1930
The Three from the Filling Station
1930
Accident
1928
Dolly is making a career
1930
We Need No Money
1931
Prisoner of Paradise
2003
Love in the Ring
1930
Her Majesty Love
1933
The Golden Butterfly
1926
Fairground People
1930
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
1927
Theresienstadt
1944
Two in a Car
1932
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
1925
Agitated Woman
1927
Manege
1928
The Alley Cat
1929
One Night at the Grand Hotel
1931
Casanovas Erbe
1928
A Crazy Night
1927
Die Pflicht zu schweigen
1928
Das tanzende Wien
1927
Die Hotelratte
1928
Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
1929
The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
1927
Der große Unbekannte
1927
Daughter of the Regiment
1929
Annemarie und ihr Ulan
1926
Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier
1926
Girls for Sale!
1927
Ein Tag der Rosen im August..
1927
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
1927
Unmoral
1928
Die weiße Spinne
1927
Road to Rio
1931
Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
1929
Halbseide
1925
Vater geht auf Reisen
1932
Heut tanzt Mariett
1928
Madame Pompadour
1931
Der Held des Tages
1921
Die drei Mannequins
1926
Der Soldat der Marie
1927
Wer wirft den ersten Stein?
1927
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
1926
Drie wenschen
1937
Die Flucht vor der Liebe
1929
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
1928
The White Horse Inn
1926
Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
1929
Die schönsten Beine von Berlin
1927
Die Schmiede
1924
Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell
1927
Benno Stehkragen
1927
Berlin After Dark
1929
Directing · 17
A Mad Idea
1932
The White Demon
1932
Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming
1933
Theresienstadt
1944
A Woman at the Wheel
1933
Incognito
1934
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten
1935
Stupéfiants
1932
My Wife, the Adventuress
1931
Cabaret program No. 1
1931
Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood
1936
Things Are Getting Better Already
1932
Heut' kommt's drauf an
1933
The mute of Portici
1931
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
1926
The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata
1935
Kabarett-Programm Nr. 2
1931