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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Blue Angel (1930) — Kiepert
2. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) — Dr. Vitalis
3. People on Sunday (1930) — Kurt
4. The Eternal Jew (1940) — (archive footage)
5. Variety (1925) — Hafenarbeiter
6. The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) — guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
7. The Three from the Filling Station (1930) — Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
8. Accident (1928)
9. Theresienstadt (1944) — Regisseur - Schauspieler
10. Bombs Over Monte Carlo (1931) — Spielbankdirektor
11. Burglars (1930) — Polizeikommissar
12. Road to Rio (1931) — Barera, casino owner
13. Love in the Ring (1930) — Box-Manager
14. Prisoner of Paradise (2003) — Self (archival footage)
15. We Need No Money (1931) — Bank President Binder
16. The Strange Case of Captain Ramper (1928)
17. One Night at the Grand Hotel (1931) — Achaz
18. The Alley Cat (1929)
19. Fairground People (1930)
20. A Crazy Night (1927) — Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
21. Manege (1928) — Bela Garay
22. Wir halten fest und treu zusammen (1929) — Steak
23. Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen (1927)
24. The White Horse Inn (1926)
25. Two in a Car (1932) — Agent Niedlich
26. Madame Pompadour (1931) — Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
27. Die Schmiede (1924)
28. The Golden Butterfly (1926)
29. Her Majesty Love (1933) — Hornberg
30. Der große Unbekannte (1927) — Bankier Tupperwill
31. Dolly is making a career (1930) — Silbermann
32. Benno Stehkragen (1927)
33. O alte Burschenherrlichkeit (1925)
34. Ein Tag der Rosen im August.. (1927) — Boxer
35. Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim (1929) — Steak
36. Girls for Sale! (1927) — Kastillo
37. Heut tanzt Mariett (1928) — Brigon
38. Die Pflicht zu schweigen (1928) — Iwan Daniloff
39. The Transformation of Dr. Bessel (1927) — Georgakopoulos
40. Fighting the White Slave Traffic (1927) — Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses

Directed

1. Theresienstadt (1944) — Director
2. A Mad Idea (1932) — Director
3. Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood (1936) — Director
4. The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata (1935) — Director
5. My Wife, the Adventuress (1931) — Director
6. Stupéfiants (1932) — Director
7. Heut' kommt's drauf an (1933) — Director
8. Things Are Getting Better Already (1932) — Director
9. The mute of Portici (1931) — Director
10. The White Demon (1932) — Director
11. Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten (1935) — Director
12. Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming (1933) — Director
13. Cabaret program No. 1 (1931) — Director
14. Der Liebe Lust und Leid (1926) — Director
15. A Woman at the Wheel (1933) — Director
16. Incognito (1934) — Director
17. Kabarett-Programm Nr. 2 (1931) — Director