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
- My Life as a Night Editor ... (Director)
- Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon ... (Director)
- The Island of the Lost ... (Director)
1920
- Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand ... (Director)
- Such a Girl ... (Director)
- The Abyss of Souls ... (Director)
1919
- The Game of Love and Death ... (Director)
1917
- Witching Hour ... (Director)
1916
- Frontstairs and Backstairs ... (Director)
- Die ewige Nacht ... (Director)
- Cinderella ... (Cinematography)
- The White Roses ... (Director)
- Little Angel's Wedding ... (Director)
1915
- Die Tochter der Landstrasse ... (Director)
- The False Asta Nielsen ... (Director)
1914
- Das Kind ruft ... (Director)
- Zapata's Gang ... (Director)
- Little Angel ... (Director)
- Das Feuer ... (Director)
1913
- The Suffragette ... (Director)
- S1 ... (Director)
- Youth and Madness ... (Director)
- Death in Seville ... (Director)
- The Film Prima Donna ... (Director)
- Die Sünden der Väter ... (Director)
1912
- A Romany Spy ... (Director)
- Der Totentanz ... (Writer)
- Comedians ... (Director)
- The General's Children ... (Director)
- Poor Jenny ... (Director)
- The House of Ill Repute ... (Director)
- When the Mask Falls ... (Director)
- Die Macht des Goldes ... (Director)
- Zu Tode Gehetzt ... (Director)
1911
- Gypsy Blood ... (Director)
- The Moth ... (Director)
- Gypsy Blood ... (Director)
- The Strange Bird ... (Director)
- The Traitress ... (Director)
- Thru Trials to Victory ... (Director)
- The Great Moment ... (Director of Photography)
- The Black Dream ... (Director)
- When Passion Blinds Honesty ... (Director)
- The Amateur's Generosity ... (Director)
1910
- The Abyss ... (Director)
- A Recruit from 64 ... (Director)