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Abel Gance

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French film director and producer, writer and actor (1889-1981)

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Abel Gance was a French film director, producer, writer, and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and Napoléon (1927).

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Abel Gance in 1924Abel Gance in 1924Poster by Cândido de Faria for the silent film Le tragique amour de Mona Lisa (1912) written by Gance. Collection EYE Film Institute Netherlands.Poster by Cândido de Faria for the silent film Le tragique amour de Mona Lisa (1912) written by Gance. Collection EYE Film Institute Netherlands.

Filmography 40

Napoleon1927 · ★ 7.8
The Fall of the House of Usher1928 · ★ 7.1
I Accuse1919 · ★ 7.4
La Roue1923 · ★ 7.3
The Battle of Austerlitz1960
I Accuse1938
The Madness of Dr. Tube1915
Au secours !1924
The End of the World1931
Four Flights to Love1939
Tower of Lust1955
The Life and Loves of Beethoven1937
Cyrano and d'Artagnan1964
Captain Fracasse1943
Lucrezia Borgia1935
Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre1935
Queen Margot1954
The Tenth Symphony1918
Blind Venus1941
Around the End of the World1930
The Torture of Silence1917
Napoleon at St. Helena1929
Molière1910
Louise1939
Abel Gance et son Napoléon1984
Napoléon Bonaparte1935
The Ironmaster1933
The Queen and the Cardinal1935
Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite1968
Around The Wheel1923
The Woman Thief1938
Poliche1934
Bonaparte et la révolution1972
Abel Gance, Yesterday and Tomorrow1963
Camille1934
Tillers of the Soil1923
Mater Dolorosa1933
Le Portrait de Mireille1910
The Death of the Duke of Enghien in 18041909
Barberousse1917

112 credits on file

Television 5

Spécial cinéma1974
Omnibus1967
Cinépanorama1956
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma1978
Marie Tudor1966

Awards 1

1981BAFTA Fellowship

Connected to Abel 6

Luis BuñuelAlso in The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)Antonin ArtaudAlso in Lucrezia Borgia (1935)Pierre BrasseurAlso in Tower of Lust (1955)Michel SimonAlso in Cyrano and d'Artagnan (1964)Grace MooreAlso in Louise (1939)Conrad VeidtAlso in Napoleon (1927)

About this person

Country
France
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1889 to 1981 · aged 92
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32 languages

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