Peter Urban Bruun Gad (12 February 1879 – 26 December 1947) was a Danish film director, stage actor, screenwriter, and author. He directed 40 films between 1910 and 1927. His wife Asta Nielsen starred in 30 of his films, also in his début film Afgrunden (The Abyss) from 1910. They moved to Germany in 1911 where Gad worked with Paul Davidson until 1922.
His mother was the playwright Emma Gad. In 1873, the painter Paul Gauguin married his father's cousin, Mette-Sophie Gad. Between 1912 and 1918, Gad was married to actress Asta Nielsen.
His films include a German-language adaptation of Gerhart Hauptmann's play The Assumption of Hannele, which Gad directed in 1922.[1]
Peter Urban Bruun Gad (12 February 1879 – 26 December 1947) was a Danish film director, stage actor, screenwriter, and author. He directed 40 films between...
woman at the time and married Nicolas UrbanGad, a rear admiral, in 1872. They had two sons: Henry and Peter UrbanGad, who later became a filmmaker. She...
of these finds was Asta Nielsen in Afgrunden (The Abyss), directed by UrbanGad for Kosmorama, This combined the circus, sex, jealousy and murder, all...
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Corporation 1952 January 1 Paul Porcasi Italy Actor 1946 February 12 UrbanGad Denmark Director 1947 June 9 Dudley Digges US Actor 1947 August 15 Ethel...
by Georges Méliès, as "Cendrillon". Cinderella (1916), German film by UrbanGad. The Lost Shoe (1923), German film by Ludwig Berger. Mamele (1938) a Molly...
speaking voice. Nielsen began her film career in 1909, starring in director UrbanGad's 1910 tragedy Afgrunden ("The Abyss"). Nielsen's minimalist acting style...
(Youth and Madness) is a German silent film in three acts by UrbanGad from 1913, starring Gad's wife Asta Nielsen and Hans Mierendoff. It is one of the director's...
Verschollenen) is a 1921 German silent science fiction film directed by UrbanGad and starring Alf Blütecher, Hanni Weisse and Erich Kaiser-Titz. It is...
began as early as February 1912 for The Dance of Death by Danish director UrbanGad. In 1920 the Deutsche Bioscop Gesellschaft merged with Erich Pommer's...
High Sierra, They Drive By Night, The Two Mrs. Carrolls December 26 – UrbanGad, 68, Danish director and screenwriter, The Abyss, Little Angel, The Island...
working on German silent movies, especially in association with directors UrbanGad, Max Mack, and Franz Hofer. Most of the time he worked for his father's...
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by Max Mack. It was followed by films such as Christian Wahnschaffe (UrbanGad, 1920–21), Bigamy (Jaap Speyer, 1927) and Queen Luise (Karl Grune, 1927/28)...
(German:Die falsche Asta Nielsen) is a 1915 German silent film directed by UrbanGad and starring Asta Nielsen and Victor Arnold. Asta Nielsen as Die Barbierstochter...
(German: Der Liebeskorridor) is a 1921 German silent comedy film directed by UrbanGad and starring Anton Edthofer, Adolphe Engers and Erika Glässner. Anton...
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