Abel Gance
French film director and producer, writer and actor (1889-1981)
1.39body-of-work score · ranked #674 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- October 25, 1889 · 18th arrondissement of Paris
- Died
- November 10, 1981 · 16th arrondissement of Paris
- Nationality
- France
- Work
- screenwriter, film actor, film director, film producer
- Movement
- French Impressionist Cinema
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1
1927 · France / Germany / Italy · biography, drama, silent
Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #225 · Scorsese's 39 essential foreign films · Vatican film list
1.014 citations - 20.391 citation
Complete filmography
All 46 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1911La Digue
- 1912Il y a des pieds au plafond
- 1912Le Nègre blanc
- 1912The Mask of Horror
- 1915L'Énigme de dix heures
- 1915L'Héroïsme de Paddy
- 1915La Fleur des ruines
- 1915La Folie du Docteur Tube
- 1915Strass et Compagnie
- 1915Un drame au château d'Acre
- 1916Ce que les flots racontent
- 1916Fioritures
- 1916Le Fou de la falaise
- 1916Le périscope
- 1916Les Gaz mortels
- 1917Barberousse
- 1917Le droit à la vie
- 1917The Torture of Silence
- 1917The Zone of Death
- 1918Ecce Homo
- 1918The Tenth Symphony
- 1919J'accuse
- 1922La Roue
- 1924Au Secours !
- 1927Napoléon
- 1931End of the World
- 1932Mater dolorosa
- 1933The Ironmaster
- 1934La Dame aux Camélias
- 1934Poliche
- 1935Jérôme Perreau héros des barricades
- 1935Lucrezia Borgia
- 1935Napoléon Bonaparte
- 1935The Novel of a Poor Young Man
- 1937Beethoven's Great Love
- 1938I Accuse
- 1938The Woman Thief
- 1939Berlingot and Company
- 1939Four Flights to Love
- 1939Louise
- 1941Vénus aveugle
- 1942Le Capitaine Fracasse
- 1955Tower of Lust
- 1956Magirama
- 1960Austerlitz
- 1964Cyrano and d'Artagnan