- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- October 25, 1889
- Place of Birth
- Paris, France
- Died
- November 10, 1981
Abel Gance
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 directing for a new film company, Film d'Art until 1918, making over a dozen successful films. Charles Pathé underwrote his next film, J'accuse (1919), in which Gance confronted the waste and suffering which the war had brought. In 1920, he developed La…
Filmography
movieAbel Gance et son Napoléon
1984 · Self (archival footage)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
tvEncyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978 · Self (archive footage)
tvSpécial cinéma
1974 · Self (archive footage)
movieBonaparte et la révolution
1972 · St. Just (archive footage), Writer, Director
movieAbel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite
1968 · Self - Interviewee
tvOmnibus
1967 · Self
tvMarie Tudor
1966 · Director, Writer
movieCyrano and d'Artagnan
1964 · Director, Screenplay
movieAbel Gance, Yesterday and Tomorrow
1963 · Self
movieThe Battle of Austerlitz
1960 · Director, Writer
movieMagirama
1958 · Director
![I Accuse! [Magirama]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/2y24WeSm8cHVYy8hrW5tIvmmCKo.jpg)
movieI Accuse! [Magirama]
1956 · Director
tvCinépanorama
1956 · Self
movieTower of Lust
1955 · Director, Screenplay
movieQueen Margot
1954 · Writer
movie14 juillet 1953
1954 · Director, Editor
movieCaptain Fracasse
1943 · Director, Writer
movieBlind Venus
1941 · Director, Writer
movieFour Flights to Love
1939 · Director, Screenplay
movieLouise
1939 · Director, Adaptation
movieThe Woman Thief
1938 · Director
movieJ'Accuse
1938 · Director, Writer
movieThe Life and Loves of Beethoven
1937 · Director, Writer
movieLucrezia Borgia
1935 · Director, Writer
movieThe Queen and the Cardinal
1935 · Director, Writer
movieNapoléon Bonaparte
1935 · Saint-Just, Director, Screenplay, Editor
movieLe Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre
1935 · Director, Screenplay
movieCamille
1934 · Director, Producer
moviePoliche
1934 · Director
movieThe Ironmaster
1933 · Screenplay
movieMater Dolorosa
1933 · Writer, Director
movieThe End of the World
1931 · Jean Novalic, Screenplay, Director
movieAround the End of the World
1930 · Self
Napoleon at St. Helena
movieNapoleon at St. Helena
1929 · Story
movieThe Fall of the House of Usher
1928 · Bar Customer
movieAutour de Napoléon
1928 · self
Marines et cristeaux
movieMarines et cristeaux
1928 · Director
movieNapoleon
1927 · Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just, Director, Writer, Editor
movieAu secours !
1924 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieAround The Wheel
1923 · Self
movieLa Roue
1923 · Self, Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
Tillers of the Soil
movieTillers of the Soil
1923 · Producer
movieJ'Accuse
1919 · Director, Screenplay, Editor
movieThe Tenth Symphony
1918 · Director, Writer
movieThe Zone of Death
1917 · Director, Writer
movieBarberousse
1917 · Director, Writer
movieThe Torture of Silence
1917 · Director, Writer
movieThe Right to Life
1917 · Director, Writer
movieDeadly Gas
1916 · Director, Writer
Le périscope
movieLe périscope
1916 · Director, Writer
Le fou de la falaise
movieLe fou de la falaise
1916 · Director, Writer
Un drame au château d'Acre
movieUn drame au château d'Acre
1915 · Director, Writer
L'héroïsme de Paddy
movieL'héroïsme de Paddy
1915 · Director, Writer
L'énigme de dix heures
movieL'énigme de dix heures
1915 · Director, Writer
movieThe Madness of Dr. Tube
1915 · Director, Writer
L'infirmière
movieL'infirmière
1914 · Writer
movieThe Mask of Horror
1912 · Director, Screenplay
movieA Tragic Love of Mona Lisa
1912 · Writer
movieLa Digue
1911 · Director, Writer
Le Portrait de Mireille
movieLe Portrait de Mireille
1910 · Writer
Molière
movieMolière
1910 · Molière jeune, Writer
Jephté's Daughter
movieJephté's Daughter
1910 · Writer
movieThe Death of the Duke of Enghien in 1804
1909 · Writer