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.
Acting
Movie
The Blue Angel
as Kiepert
1930
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Diary of a Lost Girl
as Dr. Vitalis
1929
Movie
People on Sunday
as Kurt
1930
Movie
The Eternal Jew
as (archive footage)
1940
Movie
Variety
as Hafenarbeiter
1925
Movie
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
as guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
1929
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The Three from the Filling Station
as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
1930
Movie
Accident
1928
Movie
Theresienstadt
as Regisseur - Schauspieler
1944
Movie
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
as Spielbankdirektor
1931
Movie
Burglars
as Polizeikommissar
1930
Movie
Road to Rio
as Barera, casino owner
1931
Movie
Love in the Ring
as Box-Manager
1930
Movie
Prisoner of Paradise
as Self (archival footage)
2003
Movie
We Need No Money
as Bank President Binder
1931
Movie
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
1928
Movie
One Night at the Grand Hotel
as Achaz
1931
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The Alley Cat
1929
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Fairground People
1930
Movie
A Crazy Night
as Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
1927
Movie
Manege
as Bela Garay
1928
Movie
Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
as Steak
1929
Movie
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
1927
Movie
The White Horse Inn
1926
Crew
Movie
Theresienstadt
Writer
1944
Movie
A Mad Idea
Director
1932
Movie
Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood
Director
1936
Movie
The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata
Director
1935
Movie
My Wife, the Adventuress
Director
1931
Movie
Stupéfiants
Director
1932
Movie
Heut' kommt's drauf an
Director
1933
Movie
Things Are Getting Better Already
Director
1932
Movie
The mute of Portici
Director
1931
Movie
The White Demon
Director
1932
Movie
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten
Director
1935
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Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming
Director
1933