Kurt Gerron
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Born May 11, 1897·Died October 30, 1944 (at 47)·Berlin, Germany·Male
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.
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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 most rated titles across all credits
Filmography
82 credits across 78 titlesActing
61 creditsDirecting
17 creditsWriting
2 creditsAs self
2 creditsTalk shows, festival coverage and documentary appearances, kept out of the acting list.
