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