Kurt Gerron
Born May 11, 1897 (Age: 128)
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Berlin, Germany
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.
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.
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Filmography
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Vater geht auf Reisen
1932
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as Kommissar
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Age: 34
Two in a Car
1932
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as Agent Niedlich
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Age: 34
We Need No Money
1931
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as Bank President Binder
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Age: 34
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One Night at the Grand Hotel
1931
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as Achaz
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Age: 34
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
1931
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as Spielbankdirektor
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Age: 34
Trapeze
1931
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as
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Age: 34
Road to Rio
1931
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as Barera, casino owner
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Age: 33
Madame Pompadour
1931
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as Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
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Age: 33
Burglars
1930
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as Polizeikommissar
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Age: 33
Dolly is making a career
1930
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as Silbermann
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Age: 33
The Three from the Filling Station
1930
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as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
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Age: 33
Fairground People
1930
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Age: 33
The Blue Angel
1930
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as Kiepert
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Age: 32
Love in the Ring
1930
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as Box-Manager
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Age: 32
People on Sunday
1930
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as Kurt
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Age: 32