Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1897-05-11
Day of Death
1944-10-30
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
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.
Filmography (64)
Prisoner of Paradise
2003
Theresienstadt
1944
The Eternal Jew
1940Drie wenschen
1937
Her Majesty Love
1933Vater geht auf Reisen
1932
Two in a Car
1932
We Need No Money
1931One Night at the Grand Hotel
1931
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
1931
Trapeze
1931
Road to Rio
1931
Madame Pompadour
1931
Burglars
1930
