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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 33,775 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Urban Gad is the 945th most popular film director (down from 685th in 2019), the 436th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 333rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Danish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Urban Gad ranks 945 out of 1,581Before him are Preston Sturges, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Kote Marjanishvili, Stanislav Rostotsky, Luise Fleck, and Gleb Panfilov. After him are Jon Turteltaub, Nanni Loy, Dara Singh, Harry Beaumont, Pierre Tchernia, and Ben Sharpsteen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Urban Gad ranks 153Before him are Agnes Miegel, Beals Wright, Grzegorz Fitelberg, Alfrēds Kalniņš, Sydney Greenstreet, and Laura Hope Crews. After him are Aeneas Mackintosh, Billy Mitchell, Bagha Jatin, Lucile Watson, E. H. Shepard, and Othmar Ammann. Among people deceased in 1947, Urban Gad ranks 145Before him are Petras Cvirka, Rudolf Noack, Jean-Richard Bloch, Max Berg, August Blom, and Georg Schnéevoigt. After him are Anna von Mildenburg, R. B. Bennett, Riichi Yokomitsu, José Pardo y Barreda, Tefta Tashko-Koço, and Frederick Russell Burnham.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Urban Gad ranks 436 out of 893Before him are Johan Lange (1818), Vivi Bach (1939), Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1685), Willy Hansen (1906), Klaus Rifbjerg (1931), and Karen Hoff (1921). After him are Christian Poulsen (1980), Lauge Koch (1892), Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs (1817), Else Alfelt (1910), John Eriksen (1957), and Princess Sophia Hedwig of Denmark (1677).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Denmark

Among film directors born in Denmark, Urban Gad ranks 14Before him are Nicolas Winding Refn (1970), Benjamin Christensen (1879), Erik Balling (1924), Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (1947), Jørgen Leth (1937), and August Blom (1869). After him are Lone Scherfig (1959), Anders Thomas Jensen (1972), Astrid Henning-Jensen (1914), Niels Arden Oplev (1961), Ole Bornedal (1959), and Nikolaj Arcel (1972).

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