Personal Info
Birth date
1897-05-11 (128 Years)
Day of death
1944-10-28
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Berlin, Germany
Also known as
Kurt Gerson
Kurt Gerron
Biography
We dont have a biography for Kurt Gerron
Filmography
The Blue Angel
7.306
Overview:
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.People on Sunday
7.235
Overview:
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.Diary of a Lost Girl
7.384
Overview:
Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.Theresienstadt
2.3
Overview:
Nazi propaganda film about the Czech "Theresienstadt ghetto" in Terezín. The film was supposed to show the world that Jews didn't suffer in concentration camps. Upon completion, most Jews shown in the film (including director Kurt Gerron) were brought to Auschwitz, where they were killed.The Eternal Jew
4.5
Overview:
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.Variety
6.792
Overview:
The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.One Night at the Grand Hotel
5.5
Overview:
Fritz is in love with artist Glay, who stays at the Grand Hotel. In spite of not having any money he gets to know her, invites her to supper and after dancing a tango even hires the royal suite. How will he get out of this is a mystery even to himself.The Three from the Filling Station
6.1
Overview:
Die Drei von der Tankstelle, meaning The Three from the Gas Station, was advertised as a German operetta when release and with it’s star studded cast would become the forerunner of Musical films. Even today the soundtrack of the comic harmonists is popular in Germany.We Need No Money
5
Overview:
In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Groditzkirchen to make a fortune on credit even though he only has $10 to his name. To do so, he enlists the aide of a bank clerk and begins posing as a millionaire.The White Hell of Pitz Palu
6.8
Overview:
Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.Fighting the White Slave Traffic
NYR
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A young woman in Berlin is offered a job at a night club in Budapest. There she is abducted and brought to a brothel in Athens.Fairground People
7
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Young Anny returns from school to her circus family, which runs a little venue at the town fair. When Anny suddenly has to fill in for one of the artists, her piano-playing not only enthrals the audience, but also theatre agent Horbes. He casts the whole family for the Apollo theatre in Berlin, where Anny quickly raises to stardom and is offered an engagement from the US.Things Are Getting Better Already
NYR
Overview:
The fast-driving daughter of a car manufacturer keeps Berlin's most pricey lawyer busy as she keeps getting into scrapes.Prisoner of Paradise
6.3
Overview:
The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where he was commanded to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film.Her Majesty Love
NYR
Overview:
Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Lia and her unsophisticated father far below their caste. The family convinces Fred to give up the girl in exchange for increased position and income in the company. But Fred's lapse is momentary, and he again pursues Lia. But she, by this time, has learned of his erstwhile agreement and has agreed to marry someone else.The Alley Cat
9
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"The Alley Cat" - A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
NYR
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Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his advantageous position is eventually threatened by one of the whores who has fallen in love with the convict's grown up son.The Golden Butterfly
NYR
Overview:
A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restauranteur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down to the dance studio for a practice. She has a chance meeting with a handsome impresario, who promises to make her into the greatest dancer the world has ever known.Dolly is making a career
NYR
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Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfriend. She sings,at one point, that she has the walk of (Lilian) Harvey, the mouth of Garbo and the legs of Dietrich.Bombs Over Monte Carlo
7.3
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The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.Incognito
NYR
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A restaurant waiter and the telephone operator at the Palace of Cap Martin sympathize without ever being able to go out together, because their day off is not the same. In the meantime, the disappearance of the Prince of Roumelia, whom no one knows, is announced. The boy, with the complicity of the young girl, pretends to be the Prince. They have a happy day. But the deception is quickly discovered, they are fired. Fortunately, the real prince arrives and asks for their forgiveness.Acting
2003Prisoner of Paradise as Self (archival footage)
1944Theresienstadt as Regisseur - Schauspieler
1940The Eternal Jew as (archive footage)
1933Her Majesty Love as Hornberg
1932Vater geht auf Reisen as Kommissar
1932Two in a Car as Agent Niedlich
1931We Need No Money as Bank President Binder
1931One Night at the Grand Hotel as Achaz
1931Bombs Over Monte Carlo as Spielbankdirektor
1931Trapeze as Unknown
1931Madame Pompadour as Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
1930Burglars as Polizeikommissar
1930Dolly is making a career as Silbermann
1930The Three from the Filling Station as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
1930Fairground People as Unknown
1930The Blue Angel as Kiepert
1930Love in the Ring as Box-Manager
1930People on Sunday as Kurt
1929The White Hell of Pitz Palu as guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
1929Diary of a Lost Girl as Dr. Vitalis
1929Wir halten fest und treu zusammen as Steak
1929Die Flucht vor der Liebe as Unknown
1929Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim as Steak
1929Daughter of the Regiment as Quippo
1929The Alley Cat as Unknown
1929Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur as Maxe
1928Unmoral as Matrosenemil
1928Accident as Unknown
1928Casanovas Erbe as Unknown
1928Heut tanzt Mariett as Brigon
1928Die Hotelratte as Hüsgens
1928Die Pflicht zu schweigen as Iwan Daniloff
1928The Strange Case of Captain Ramper as Unknown
1928Manege as Bela Garay
1927The Transformation of Dr. Bessel as Georgakopoulos
1927Die weiße Spinne as Unknown
1927Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell as Meyers
1927Das tanzende Wien as Feuerwehrmann
1927Girls for Sale! as Kastillo
1927Agitated Woman as Wladimir
1927Ein Tag der Rosen im August.. as Boxer
1927Die schönsten Beine von Berlin as Unknown
1927Fighting the White Slave Traffic as Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses, Club Manager
1927Der Soldat der Marie as Wachmeister Knöppke
1927A Crazy Night as Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
1927Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen as Unknown
1927Der große Unbekannte as Bankier Tupperwill
1927Benno Stehkragen as Unknown
1927Wer wirft den ersten Stein? as Unknown
1926Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier as Photograph
1926The White Horse Inn as Unknown
1926Annemarie und ihr Ulan as Wachtmeister
1926Die drei Mannequins as Unknown
1926The Golden Butterfly as Unknown
1926Der Liebe Lust und Leid as Unknown
1925Halbseide as Willi Krach
1925Variety as Hafenarbeiter
1925O alte Burschenherrlichkeit as Unknown
1924Die Schmiede as Unknown
1921Der Held des Tages as Unknown
Directing
1944Theresienstadt ... Director
1936Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood ... Director
1935The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata ... Director
1935Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten ... Director
1934Incognito ... Director
1933A Woman at the Wheel ... Director
1933Kind, ich freu' mich auf Dein Kommen ... Director
1933Heut' kommt's drauf an ... Director
1932Stupéfiants ... Director
1932The White Demon ... Director
1932A Mad Idea ... Director
1932Things Are Getting Better Already ... Director
1931My Wife, the Adventuress ... Director
1931Cabaret program No. 1 ... Director
1931The mute of Portici ... Director
1926Der Liebe Lust und Leid ... Director