Abel Gance
Directing
19
Acting Credits
42
Directed
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...
Known For
Filmography
Abel Gance et son Napoléon
1984
as Self (archival footage)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
as Self (archive footage)
Ciné regards
1978
as Self
Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self (archive footage)
Bonaparte and the Revolution
1972
as St. Just (archive footage)
Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite
1968
as Self - Interviewee
Omnibus
1967
as Self
Pour le plaisir
1964
as Self
Abel Gance, Yesterday and Tomorrow
1963
as Self
Cinépanorama
1956
as Self
Napoléon Bonaparte
1935
as Saint-Just
The End of the World
1931
as Jean Novalic
Around the End of the World
1930
as Self
The Fall of the House of Usher
1928
as Bar Customer
Autour de Napoléon
1928
as self
Napoleon
1927
as Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just
Around The Wheel
1923
as Self
La Roue
1923
as Self
Molière
1910
as Molière jeune