Gabriel Axel
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1918-04-18 (96 years old)
Deathday
2014-02-09
Place of Birth
Aarhus, Denmark
Also known As
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Gabriel Axel
Biography
Axel Gabriel Erik Mørch, betterr known as Gabriel Axel was Danish director, actor and writer. He spent most of his childhood and youth in Paris. In 1942 Axel was admitted to the acting school at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen. After a short period of theatre in Paris, he returned to Denmark and began in 1951 to direct television drama. Following a series of more or less erotic films and broadly popular comedies, Axel in 1977 launched a prolific career as a director of French TV films, culminating in 1985 with a historical five-episode series, "Les colonnes du ciel/Heaven's Pillars". In 1987, Axel returned to Denmark to direct what had...
Acting
1955
as Taxichauffør
1962
as Modedesigneren Monsieur Baptiste
1961
as Lompard - Brigader
1966
1965
as von Bengeldorff
1954
as Receptionist
1963
as French teacher
1955
as Stenert
1956
as Tailor
1958
1977
1967
as Marcel de Sade
1954
1971
as Mr. X
1954
as Instruktøren
1952
as Værtshusgæst
1953
as Knud Asmussen
2011
Production
1977
as Director
1987
as Director
1987
as Screenplay
1976
as Director
2001
as Director
1994
as Director
1963
as Director
1955
as Director
1962
as Director
1967
as Director
1962
as Director
1957
as Director
1959
as Director
1975
as Director
1989
as Director
1995
as Director
1963
as Director
1960
as Director
1977
as Director
1958
as Director
1994
as Screenplay
1967
as Writer
1970
as Director
1957
as Director
1964
as Director
1968
as Director
1968
as Writer
1971
as Director
1971
as Writer
1961
as Director
1970
as Writer
1972
as Director
1980
as Director
1964
as Director
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