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Abel Gance

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.

Highest rated movies

100% 80% The Fall of the House of Usher
87% 90% Napoleon

Filmography

Movies

Credit
40% 71% 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
87% 90% 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 3 Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
- 1923
No Score Yet No Score Yet LA ROUE: Part 2 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