- Personal name
- Kurt Gerson
- Born
- May 11, 1897
- Died
- October 28, 1944
- Country
- Germany
- Comments
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Jewish actor and film director born in Berlin, whose popular cinema breakthrough came with The Blue Angel (Der Blaue Engel, 1930) opposite Marlene Dietrich. Previously he played the character "Moritatensänger" in the world premiere of Die Dreigroschenoper in 1928. He was killed in the concentration camp Auschwitz in 1944.
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