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Filmmaker · Denmark

Gabriel Axel

Died in 2014

Gabriel Axel was born in Aarhus in 1918 and grew up in Paris, in the well-off family of a Danish industrialist. After the family's ruin, he returned to Denmark at sixteen and learned cabinetmaking, then in 1942 entered the drama school of the Royal Theatre and joined Louis Jouvet's company in Paris. He directed for Danish television from 1951, made popular comedies from 1957, then many French television films from 1977. He died in 2014, at ninety-five.

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