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name: "Kurt Gerron"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kurt-gerron"
fi1m_id: "kurt-gerron"
imdb_id: "nm0314777"
tmdb_id: 2897
wikidata_id: "Q60905"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "11 May 1897"
died: "30 October 1944"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T00:21:22.115126+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Kurt Gerron

## Identity

Kurt Gerron

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kurt-gerron
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kurt-gerron
- **IMDb ID:** nm0314777
- **TMDB ID:** 2897
- **Wikidata ID:** Q60905
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Gerron, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60905, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0314777/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2897

Actor. Born 11 May 1897 in Berlin, Germany. Died 30 October 1944.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 11 May 1897, Berlin, Germany
- **Died:** 30 October 1944
- **Active:** 1930–1931
- **Also known as:** Kurt Gerson
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Gerron, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60905, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0314777/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2897

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Blue Angel*](https://film.one/film/the-blue-angel.md) (81)

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## Biography

Kurt Gerron, also credited as Kurt Gerson, was a German Jewish actor and film director. Born in Berlin on 11 May 1897, he began his career on the stage after the First World War, appearing in productions including the 1928 Berlin premiere of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's *The Threepenny Opera*.

He became known for film roles such as Kiepert in Josef von Sternberg's *The Blue Angel* (1930) and Achaz in *One Night at the Grand Hotel* (1931). He also directed several comedies in the early sound era. After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Gerron fled Germany and later settled in the Netherlands. In 1944 he was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, where he was forced to direct the Nazi propaganda film *Theresienstadt: A Documentary Film from the Jewish Settlement Area*. He and his wife were murdered at Auschwitz on 30 October 1944.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmportal.de.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Blue Angel* (1930), Fi1m 81, as Kiepert — [page](https://film.one/film/the-blue-angel.md)

## Complete filmography (77)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Theresienstadt* (1944), as Regisseur - Schauspieler · Writer, Director
- *The Eternal Jew* (1940), as (archive footage)
- *Drie wenschen* (1937), Actor
- *Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood* (1936), Director
- *The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata* (1935), Director
- *Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten* (1935), Director
- *Incognito* (1934), Director
- *A Woman at the Wheel* (1933), Director
- *Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming* (1933), Director, Writer
- *Heut' kommt's drauf an* (1933), Director
- *Her Majesty Love* (1933), as Hornberg
- *Stupéfiants* (1932), Director
- *The White Demon* (1932), Director
- *A Mad Idea* (1932), Director
- *Vater geht auf Reisen* (1932), as Kommissar
- *Two in a Car* (1932), as Agent Niedlich
- *Things Are Getting Better Already* (1932), Director
- *We Need No Money* (1931), as Bank President Binder
- *One Night at the Grand Hotel* (1931), as Achaz
- *Kabarett-Programm Nr. 2* (1931), Director
- *My Wife, the Adventuress* (1931), Director
- *Bombs Over Monte Carlo* (1931), as Spielbankdirektor
- *Trapeze* (1931), Actor
- *Cabaret program No. 1* (1931), Director
- *The mute of Portici* (1931), Director
- *Road to Rio* (1931), as Barera, casino owner
- *Madame Pompadour* (1931), as Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
- *Burglars* (1930), as Polizeikommissar
- *Dolly is making a career* (1930), as Silbermann
- *The Three from the Filling Station* (1930), as Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
- *Fairground People* (1930), Actor
- *The Blue Angel* (1930), as Kiepert — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-blue-angel.md)
- *Love in the Ring* (1930), as Box-Manager
- *People on Sunday* (1930), as Kurt
- *The White Hell of Pitz Palu* (1929), as guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
- *Diary of a Lost Girl* (1929), as Dr. Vitalis
- *Die Flucht vor der Liebe* (1929), Actor
- *Wir halten fest und treu zusammen* (1929), as Steak
- *Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim* (1929), as Steak
- *Daughter of the Regiment* (1929), as Quippo
- *Berlin After Dark* (1929), as Jernmax
- *Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur* (1929), as Maxe
- *The Alley Cat* (1929), Actor
- *Unmoral* (1928), as Matrosenemil
- *Accident* (1928), Actor
- *Casanovas Erbe* (1928), Actor
- *Heut tanzt Mariett* (1928), as Brigon
- *Die Hotelratte* (1928), as Hüsgens
- *Die Pflicht zu schweigen* (1928), as Iwan Daniloff
- *The Strange Case of Captain Ramper* (1928), Actor
- *Manege* (1928), as Bela Garay
- *The Fugitive Lover* (1927), as Georgakopoulos · Greek Tabaco-Merchant
- *Die weiße Spinne* (1927), Actor
- *Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell* (1927), as Meyers
- *Das tanzende Wien* (1927), as Feuerwehrmann
- *Girls for Sale!* (1927), as Kastillo
- *Agitated Woman* (1927), as Wladimir
- *Ein Tag der Rosen im August..* (1927), as Boxer
- *Die schönsten Beine von Berlin* (1927), Actor
- *Fighting the White Slave Traffic* (1927), as Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses · Club Manager
- *Der Soldat der Marie* (1927), as Wachmeister Knöppke
- *A Crazy Night* (1927), as Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
- *Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen* (1927), Actor
- *Der große Unbekannte* (1927), as Bankier Tupperwill
- *Benno Stehkragen* (1927), Actor
- *Wer wirft den ersten Stein?* (1927), Actor
- *Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier* (1926), as Photograph
- *The White Horse Inn* (1926), Actor
- *Annemarie und ihr Ulan* (1926), as Wachtmeister
- *Die drei Mannequins* (1926), Actor
- *The Golden Butterfly* (1926), Actor
- *Der Liebe Lust und Leid* (1926), Director
- *Halbseide* (1925), as Willi Krach
- *Variety* (1925), as Hafenarbeiter
- *O alte Burschenherrlichkeit* (1925), Actor
- *Die Schmiede* (1924), Actor
- *Der Held des Tages* (1921), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Publicity portrait of Kurt Gerron for the German silent film Yacht of the Seven Sins. (1928)](https://film.one/media/person/1225350/gallery-7b27f1dc697b.jpg) Publicity portrait of Kurt Gerron for the German silent film Yacht of the Seven Sins. (1928) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Kurt_Gerron.jpg/1280px-Kurt_Gerron.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kurt Gerron](https://film.one/media/person/1225350/gallery-d25859721bce.jpg) Kurt Gerron — Image via TMDB

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