Urban Gad
Born: 1879-02-12 in Korsør, Denmark
Died: 1947-12-26
Known For: Directing
Biography
Peter Urban Gad was a Danish director who worked mostly in Germany, directing 40 films between 1910 and 1927. From 1912 to 1918 he was married to his leading lady Asta Nielsen, who starred in 30 of his productions. Gad directed both the first feature-length Danish film (Den sorte drøm 1911) and the first feature-length German film (Die Verräterin 1911).
Filmography
1926
- The Wheel of Fortune ... (Director)
1922
- Hannele's Ascension ... (Director)
1921
- The Island of the Lost ... (Director)
- Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon ... (Director)
- My Life as a Night Editor ... (Director)
1920
- Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand ... (Director)
- The Abyss of Souls ... (Director)
- Such a Girl ... (Director)
1919
- The Game of Love and Death ... (Director)
1917
- Witching Hour ... (Director)
1916
- The White Roses ... (Director)
- Cinderella ... (Cinematography)
- Frontstairs and Backstairs ... (Director)
- Little Angel's Wedding ... (Director)
- Die ewige Nacht ... (Director)
1915
- The False Asta Nielsen ... (Director)
- Die Tochter der Landstrasse ... (Director)
1914
- Little Angel ... (Director)
- Das Feuer ... (Director)
- Zapata's Gang ... (Director)
- Das Kind ruft ... (Director)
1913
- The Suffragette ... (Director)
- Die Sünden der Väter ... (Director)
- Youth and Madness ... (Director)
- The Film Prima Donna ... (Director)
- Death in Seville ... (Director)
- S1 ... (Director)
1912
- Comedians ... (Director)
- When the Mask Falls ... (Director)
- Poor Jenny ... (Director)
- Der Totentanz ... (Writer)
- Die Macht des Goldes ... (Director)
- Zu Tode Gehetzt ... (Director)
- The House of Ill Repute ... (Director)
- A Romany Spy ... (Director)
- The General's Children ... (Director)
1911
- The Traitress ... (Director)
- The Strange Bird ... (Director)
- Thru Trials to Victory ... (Director)
- The Great Moment ... (Director of Photography)
- The Black Dream ... (Director)
- Gypsy Blood ... (Director)
- Gypsy Blood ... (Director)
- The Moth ... (Director)
- When Passion Blinds Honesty ... (Director)
- The Amateur's Generosity ... (Director)
1910
- The Abyss ... (Director)
- A Recruit from 64 ... (Director)