Urban Gad
Peter Urban Bruun Gad (12 February 1879 in Korsør, Denmark – 26 December 1947 in Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Danish film director. He directed 40 films between 1910 and 1927. His wife Asta Nielsen starred in 30 of his films, also in his début the film Afgrunden (The Abyss) from 1910. They moved to Germany in 1911 where Gad worked with Paul Davidson until 1922.
His uncle was Paul Gauguin. His mother was the playwright Emma Gad.
His films include a German-language adaptation of Gerhart Hauptmann's play The Assumption of Hannele, which Gad directed in 1922.[1]
Filmography[]
- The Abyss (Afgrunden) (1910)
- (1911)
- (Nachtfalter) (1911)
- (1911)
- (1911)
- Zigeunerblut (1911)
- (1911)
- The Traitress (Die Verräterin) (1911)
- (1912)
- Poor Jenny (Die arme Jenny) (1912)
- (1912)
- Der Totentanz (1912)
- (1912)
- (1912)
- (Das Mädchen ohne Vaterland) (1912)
- (Komödianten) (1913)
- (1913)
- (1913)
- (1913)
- (1913)
- (1913)
- The Film Primadonna (Die Filmprimadonna) (1913)
- (1913)
- (1913)
- Engelein (1914)
- (1914)
- Zapata's Gang (Zapatas Bande) (1914)
- (1914)
- (1914)
- (1914)
- Vordertreppe - Hintertreppe (1915)
- (1915)
- Die falsche Asta Nielsen (1915)
- (1915)
- (1916)
- Die weißen Rosen (1916)
- Cinderella (Aschenbrödel) (1916)
- (1916)
- (1917)
- (1917)
- (1917)
- (1917)
- (1917)
- (1918)
- (1918)
- (1918)
- (1918)
- (1918)
- (1918)
- (1918)
- (1919)
- Christian Wahnschaffe (1920)
- What a Girl (1920)
- (1920)
- (1921)
- (1921)
- The Love Corridor (1921)
- The Poisoned Stream (1921)
- The Island of the Lost (1921)
- Hannele's Journey to Heaven (1922)
- Graf Festenberg (1922)
- (1926)
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