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.

Known For

The Blue Angel

as Kiepert

Diary of a Lost Girl

as Dr. Vitalis

People on Sunday

as Kurt

The Eternal Jew

as (archive footage)

Variety

as Hafenarbeiter

The White Hell of Pitz Palu

as guest at night club (Mann im Salon)

The Three from the Filling Station

as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus

Accident

Theresienstadt

as Regisseur - Schauspieler

Burglars

as Polizeikommissar