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Abel Gance
Directing
25 Oct 1889
† 10 Nov 1981
Paris, France
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, L...
Also Known As
아벨 강스, Abel Perthon
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Abel Gance's Movies
78%
Napoleon
10 Jan 1927
70%
The Fall of the House of Usher
04 Oct 1928
73%
La Roue
17 Feb 1923
49%
The End of the World
23 Jan 1931
44%
Molière
10 Sept 1910
48%
Around the End of the World
31 Dec 1930
55%
Abel Gance et son Napoléon
26 Mar 1984
80%
Napoléon Bonaparte
05 Nov 1935
70%
Around The Wheel
14 Oct 1923
60%
Abel Gance, Yesterday and Tomorrow
01 Jan 1963
60%
Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite
01 Jan 1968
0%
Bonaparte et la révolution
24 Nov 1972
0%
Autour de Napoléon
01 Jan 1928
