FILM DIRECTOR

Urban Gad

1879 - 1947

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Urban Gad has received more than 37,917 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Urban Gad is the 820th most popular film director (up from 942nd in 2019), the 395th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 434th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Danish Film Director.

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  • 18

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  • 1.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Urban Gad ranks 820 out of 2,041. Before him are Ari Folman, Edgar Reitz, Aleksander Ford, Sion Sono, Sean S. Cunningham, and Andrew Davis. After him are Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Max Fleischer, Julio Medem, Eduard Tisse, and Aleksandr Khanzhonkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Urban Gad ranks 142. Before him are Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Eugen Varga, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni, Martin Mutschmann, and Hamilton Harty. After him are Jin Shuren, Walery Sławek, Otto Wahle, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, René Pottier, and Benjamin Christensen. Among people deceased in 1947, Urban Gad ranks 138. Before him are Leevi Madetoja, Martin Mutschmann, Somnath Sharma, Léon-Paul Fargue, Fyodor Dan, and Elena Văcărescu. After him are Rudolf Noack, Max Dessoir, Amadeo García, Wilhelm Heye, Ian Hamilton, and Martin Klein.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Urban Gad ranks 395 out of 1,032. Before him are Julius Petersen (1839), Jon Dahl Tomasson (1976), Mogens Lykketoft (1946), Carl Theodor Zahle (1866), Carl Christian Hall (1812), and Kim Vilfort (1962). After him are Kristian Zahrtmann (1843), Sofie Gråbøl (1968), Karin Michaëlis (1872), Wilhelm Bendz (1804), Jacob Riis (1849), and Georg Mohr (1640).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Denmark

Among film directors born in Denmark, Urban Gad ranks 10. Before him are Gabriel Axel (1918), Thomas Vinterberg (1969), Susanne Bier (1960), Henning Carlsen (1927), Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (1947), and Erik Balling (1924). After him are Benjamin Christensen (1879), Nicolas Winding Refn (1970), Jørgen Leth (1937), Astrid Henning-Jensen (1914), August Blom (1869), and Lone Scherfig (1959).

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