Urban Gad

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1879-02-12 (68 years old)

Deathday

1947-12-26

Place of Birth

Korsør, Denmark

Urban Gad

Biography

Peter Urban Gad was a Danish director who worked mostly in Germany, directing 40 films between 1910 and 1927. From 1912 to 1918 he was married to his leading lady Asta Nielsen, who starred in 30 of his productions. Gad directed both the first feature-length Danish film (Den sorte drøm 1911) and the first feature-length German film (Die Verräterin 1911).

Production

1911

The Great Moment

as Director of Photography

1910

The Abyss

as Director

1911

The Traitress

as Director

1913

The Suffragette

as Director

1914

Little Angel

as Director

1914

Little Angel

as Writer

1913

1911

The Black Dream

as Director

1912

A Romany Spy

as Director

1917

Witching Hour

as Director

1912

Poor Jenny

as Director

1914

Zapata's Gang

as Director

1916

Cinderella

as Cinematography

1913

S1

as Director

1914

Zapata's Gang

as Writer

1921

1911

The Strange Bird

as Director

1911

1910

1920

1920

Such a Girl

as Director

1920

1913

1910

The Abyss

as Writer

1922

1911

1915

1911

Gypsy Blood

as Director

1913

Death in Seville

as Director

1912

1912

Comedians

as Writer

1912

1912

Comedians

as Director

1911

Gypsy Blood

as Writer

1913

1911

The Great Moment

as Director

1911

1911

Gypsy Blood

as Director

1916

1911

1912

Poor Jenny

as Writer

1912

A Romany Spy

as Writer

1913

S1

as Writer

1913

1910

1917

Witching Hour

as Writer

1912

Der Totentanz

as Director

1912

Der Totentanz

as Writer

1911

The Moth

as Writer

1911

The Moth

as Director

1916

Die Ewige Nacht

as Director

1916

1912

1914

Das Feuer

as Director

1912

Zu Tode Gehetzt

as Director

1912

1914

Das Kind ruft

as Director

1916

Cinderella

as Director

1916

Cinderella

as Writer

1913

1913

1914

Das Kind ruft

as Writer

1912

1914

Das Feuer

as Writer

1916

1916

The White Roses

as Director

1926

Lykkehjulet

as Director

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