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Kurt Gerron

1897 - 1944

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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. He was forced by the Nazis to make a propaganda film about Theresienstadt, officially named Theresienstadt. Ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen Siedlungsgebiet, before he and his wife, Olga Gerson-Meyer, were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Gerron is the 1,350th most popular actor (down from 1,256th in 2019), the 1,901st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,830th in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Kurt Gerron ranks 1,350 out of 13,578. Before him are James Tolkan, Emily Watson, Sean Hayes, Alun Armstrong, Run Run Shaw, and David Strathairn. After him are George Sanders, Mandy Patinkin, Vahide Perçin, Dharmendra, Basil Rathbone, and Rakhee Gulzar.

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Among people born in 1897, Kurt Gerron ranks 101. Before him are Husni al-Za'im, Jesse Douglas, Manuel Ávila Camacho, Maria Valtorta, Fredric March, and Elijah Muhammad. After him are Josep Pla, Karol Świerczewski, Otto Struve, Samuel Noah Kramer, Arthur Greiser, and Otto Dietrich. Among people deceased in 1944, Kurt Gerron ranks 101. Before him are Paul Masson, Arthur Blake, Aliya Moldagulova, Ethel Smyth, Hannah Szenes, and Tokutaro Ukon. After him are Paul Poiret, Robert E. Park, James McKeen Cattell, Peter Deunov, Paul Cornu, and Jean Tatlock.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Gerron ranks 1,901 out of 7,253. Before him are Philipp Lahm (1983), Johannes Steinhoff (1913), Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808), Eduard Rüppell (1794), Therese Brandl (1902), and Ralf Schumacher (1975). After him are Andreas Karlstadt (1486), Johann Gottfried Walther (1684), Barbara of Brandenburg (1464), Prince Henry of Prussia (1726), Otto Abetz (1903), and Hans Hermann von Katte (1704).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Kurt Gerron ranks 34. Before him are Uta Hagen (1919), Conrad Veidt (1893), Gottfried John (1942), Barbara Sukowa (1950), Otto Sander (1941), and William Dieterle (1893). After him are Rachel Félix (1821), Ernst Busch (1900), Karin Dor (1938), Elke Sommer (1940), Michael Fassbender (1977), and Ulrich Mühe (1953).

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