# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gaston-velle
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:39:24.851Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gaston-velle"
name: "Gaston Velle"
slug: "gaston-velle"
description: "Gaston Velle (1868–1953) was a French silent film director and pioneer of special effects, who was prominent in early French and Italian cinema during the first two decades of the 20th century. Like his father, the Hungarian entertainer Joseph \"Professor\" Velle, Gaston began his career as a travelling magician, before putting his illusionist skills to work in cinema and ultimately creating more than fifty films between 1903 and 1911. He worked under Auguste and Louis Lumière, before serving as the head of production for the Italian film studio Cines. But he is best remembered for his work at Pathé, where he was hired to produce trick films that might rival those of his contemporary, Georges Méliès, including classic shorts like Burglars at Work (1904). Some films pioneered lasting techniques, such as his Les Invisibles (1906) – the first known invisible man film."
tagline: "French film director"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Poule_aux_oeufs_d%27or_-_C%C3%A2ndido_de_Faria_-_1905_-_EYE_A06143.jpg/330px-Poule_aux_oeufs_d%27or_-_C%C3%A2ndido_de_Faria_-_1905_-_EYE_A06143.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1868-12-24"
deathDate: "1953-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.47
  momentum:             15.38461538461539
  historical:           8.138193333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0892614/"
    handle:    "nm0892614"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Вель, Гастон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جاستون ڤيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Velle"
    title: "Gaston Velle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Velle"
    title: "Gaston Velle"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Velle"
    title: "Gaston Velle"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Velle"
    title: "Gaston Velle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Velle"
    title: "Gaston Velle"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Velle"
    title: "Gaston Velle"
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  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Velle"
    title: "Gaston Velle"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3099177"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1171333"
    title: "Gaston Velle"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump