ACTOR

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Gerron has received more than 202,982 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Kurt Gerron is the 1,257th most popular actor (down from 1,140th in 2019), the 1,830th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,679th in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Actor.

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  • 200k

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  • 57.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Kurt Gerron ranks 1,257 out of 13,578. Before him are Ted Danson, Vincent Schiavelli, Uta Hagen, Stefanie Powers, Jack Warden, and Fess Parker. After him are Geraldine McEwan, Kōji Yakusho, Victoria Principal, John Barrymore, Momoko Kōchi, and Connie Nielsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Kurt Gerron ranks 93. Before him are Elijah Muhammad, Maria Valtorta, Arthur Greiser, Samuel Noah Kramer, Jesse Douglas, and Manuel Ávila Camacho. After him are Johann Rattenhuber, Polina Zhemchuzhina, Fredric March, Bulbul, Olga Chekhova, and Josep Pla. Among people deceased in 1944, Kurt Gerron ranks 99. Before him are Peter Deunov, Manuel L. Quezon, Aliya Moldagulova, Hannah Szenes, Agustín Barrios, and Artur Phleps. After him are Nikolai Polikarpov, Ulrich von Hassell, Andrey Sheptytsky, Ethel Smyth, Petr Ginz, and Emanuel Ringelblum.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Gerron ranks 1,830 out of 7,253. Before him are Uta Hagen (1919), Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1713), Regino of Prüm (842), Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (1072), Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau (1833), and Karl von Piloty (1826). After him are Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg (1527), Heinrich von Treitschke (1834), Irmina of Oeren (700), Carl Laemmle (1867), Herbert von Bismarck (1849), and Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Kurt Gerron ranks 37. Before him are Michael Fassbender (1977), Otto Sander (1941), Christian Oliver (1972), Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich (1858), Elke Sommer (1940), and Uta Hagen (1919). After him are Ernst Busch (1900), Barbara Sukowa (1950), Marianne Koch (1931), Ulrich Mühe (1953), Loriot (1923), and Maria Riva (1924).

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