Kurt Gerron

Actor

Born: May 11, 1897
Died: October 30, 1944 (age 47)
From: Berlin, Germany

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…

Filmography (78)

Prisoner of Paradise (2003)
Self (archival footage)
Theresienstadt (1944)
Director
The Eternal Jew (1940)
(archive footage)
Drie wenschen
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
Incognito (1934)
Director
A Woman at the Wheel
A Woman at the Wheel (1933)
Director
Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming (1933)
Director
Heut' kommt's drauf an (1933)
Director
Her Majesty Love (1933)
Hornberg
Stupéfiants (1932)
Director
The White Demon (1932)
Director
A Mad Idea (1932)
Director
Vater geht auf Reisen
Vater geht auf Reisen (1932)
Kommissar
Two in a Car (1932)
Agent Niedlich
Things Are Getting Better Already (1932)
Director
We Need No Money (1931)
Bank President Binder
One Night at the Grand Hotel
One Night at the Grand Hotel (1931)
Achaz
Kabarett-Programm Nr. 2
Kabarett-Programm Nr. 2 (1931)
Director
My Wife, the Adventuress (1931)
Director
Bombs Over Monte Carlo (1931)
Spielbankdirektor
Trapeze (1931)
Cabaret program No. 1
Cabaret program No. 1 (1931)
Director
The mute of Portici (1931)
Director
Road to Rio (1931)
Barera, casino owner
Madame Pompadour (1931)
Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
Burglars (1930)
Polizeikommissar
Dolly is making a career (1930)
Silbermann