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Abel Gance
Highest Rated: 100% The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Lowest Rated: 40% Battle of Austerlitz (1960)
Birthday: Oct 25, 1889
Birthplace: Paris, France
Abel Gance is universally recognized as one of the greatest directors in history. Often compared with Erich von Stroheim for his talent, extravagence, imagination and ego, his experiments in camera movement, editing, and cinematography exceeded anything being done by his contemporaries and redefined the parameters of film discourse. But he often provoked animosity promoting his own genius and aggravated producers by running over budget on ever-expanding projects. Finally, like von Stroheim, the advent of sound prevented Gance from realizing his ambitions.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40% | 60% | Battle of Austerlitz | Director | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Queen Margot | Writer | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Louise | Director | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paradise Lost | Director | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | I Accuse |
Director, Producer |
- | 1938 |
| 71% | 75% | Beethoven |
Director, Producer |
- | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Lucrezia Borgia | Director | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | End of the World |
Jean Novalic (Character), Director |
- | 1931 |
| 100% | 80% | The Fall of the House of Usher | Unknown (Character) | - | 1928 |
| 88% | 91% | Napoleon |
Louis Saint-Just (Character), Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 1927 |
| 80% | 76% | La Roue |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 1923 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | LA ROUE: Part 1 | Director | - | 1923 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | LA ROUE: Part 2 |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1923 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | LA ROUE: Part 3 |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1923 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | LA ROUE: Part 4 |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1923 |
| 67% | 90% | I Accuse |
Director, Writer |
- | 1919 |