Abel Gance
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1889-10-25 (92 years old)
Deathday
1981-11-10
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also known As
아벨 강스
Abel Perthon
Abel Gance
Biography
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). He was born in Paris in 1889. In 1909, he acted in his first film. He also wrote scenarios, and often sold them to Gaumont. During this period he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, fatal at the time, but he recovered. In 1911, with some friends he established a production company, Le Film Français, and began directing his own films. With the outbreak of WW I, rejected by the army on medical grounds, he started writing and direc...
Acting
1931
as Jean Novalic
1927
as Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just
1910
as Molière jeune
1930
as Self
1923
as Self
1923
as Self
1972
as St. Just (archive footage)
1928
as Bar Customer
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as Self (archive footage)
1963
1968
as Self - Interviewee
1935
as Saint-Just
1984
as Self (archival footage)
Production
1931
as Director
1931
as Screenplay
1927
as Director
1927
as Writer
1939
as Director
1935
as Director
1943
as Director
1935
as Director
1919
as Director
1923
as Writer
1923
as Director
1960
as Director
1960
as Writer
1955
as Director
1938
as Director
1917
as Writer
1917
as Director
1964
as Director
1964
as Screenplay
1928
as Director
1916
as Writer
1915
as Director
1916
as Director
1915
as Writer
1915
as Director
1916
as Writer
1916
as Director
1915
as Writer
1911
as Writer
1915
as Writer
1911
as Director
1915
as Director
1914
as Writer
1910
as Writer
1924
as Director
1915
as Director
1917
as Director
1910
as Writer
1937
as Writer
1937
as Director
1933
as Writer
1941
as Writer
1941
as Director
1918
as Director
1918
as Writer
1917
as Director
1934
as Director
1923
as Editor
1915
as Writer
1939
as Director
1927
as Editor
1955
as Screenplay
1924
as Producer
1924
as Writer
1954
as Writer
1956
as Director
1935
as Screenplay
1933
as Screenplay
1935
as Director
1917
as Writer
1933
as Director
1938
as Director
1972
as Writer
1910
as Writer
1923
as Producer
1935
as Director
1919
as Screenplay
1939
as Screenplay
1912
as Director
1934
as Director
1912
as Screenplay
1972
as Director
1917
as Director
1917
as Writer
1916
as Director
1916
as Writer
1935
as Writer
1943
as Writer
1938
as Writer
1912
as Writer
1958
as Director
1935
as Writer
1935
as Editor
1935
as Screenplay
1919
as Editor
1929
as Story
1917
as Writer
1923
as Producer
1934
as Producer
1954
as Director
1909
1954
as Editor
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