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Gabriel Pascal is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Hongrois born on 4 june 1894

Gabriel Pascal

Gabriel Pascal
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Nationality Hongrie
Birth 4 june 1894
Death 6 july 1954 (at 60 years) at New York City (USA)

Gabriel Pascal (4 June 1894 – 6 July 1954) was a Hungarian film producer and director.

A follower of Meher Baba, Pascal was the first film producer to successfully bring the plays of George Bernard Shaw to the screen. His most successful production was Pygmalion, for which Pascal received an Academy Award nomination as its producer. Later adaptations of Shaw plays included Major Barbara (1941) and Caesar and Cleopatra (1945).

Biography

Gabriel Pascal débute comme acteur en 1922, dans deux films muets allemands (il est également producteur exécutif de l'un d'eux). Puis, en 1931-1932, il est producteur à part entière de deux autres films allemands. Installé ensuite au Royaume-Uni, il produit en 1936 ses deux premiers films britanniques. En 1938, sort l'une de ses productions les plus connues, Pygmalion, adaptation de la pièce éponyme de George Bernard Shaw, avec Wendy Hiller et Leslie Howard.

Pascal obtiendra à nouveau l'accord de Shaw, pour transposer à l'écran deux autres de ses pièces, sous les mêmes titres, La Commandante Barbara (1941, avec Rex Harrison et Wendy Hiller), puis César et Cléopâtre (1945, avec Vivien Leigh et Claude Rains), dont il est à la fois producteur et réalisateur. Enfin, en 1952, alors qu'il s'est établi aux États-Unis, il produit son unique film américain, Androclès et le Lion, avec Victor Mature et Jean Simmons, là encore d'après une pièce du même titre de Shaw.

Deux ans après, en 1954, Gabriel Pascal meurt d'un cancer, après avoir contribué à seulement dix films en tout.

Best films

Pygmalion (1939)
(Producer)

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Filmography of Gabriel Pascal (8 films)

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Director

Caesar and Cleopatra, 2h2
Directed by Gabriel Pascal
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Historical, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Politique, Political films, Films based on plays, Films about royalty
Actors Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson, Francis L. Sullivan, Cecil Parker
Rating61% 3.099643.099643.099643.099643.09964
In this philosophical coming-of-age film, an aging Julius Caesar takes possession of the Egyptian capital city of Alexandria, and tries to resolve a feud between young Princess Cleopatra and her younger brother Ptolemy. During the resulting sometimes-murderous court intrigues, Caesar develops a special relationship with Cleopatra, and teaches her how to use her royal power.
Major Barbara, 2h11
Directed by David Lean, Harold French, Gabriel Pascal
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton, Sybil Thorndike, Emlyn Williams
Rating67% 3.3945453.3945453.3945453.3945453.394545
In this social satire, Barbara Undershaft (Hiller), an idealistic major in the Salvation Army, is deeply troubled by the fact that her father, Andrew Undershaft (Robert Morley), is a wealthy weapons manufacturer. Meanwhile, Andrew is looking for an heir for his industrial empire, in particular a foundling like himself.

Scriptwriter

Major Barbara, 2h11
Directed by David Lean, Harold French, Gabriel Pascal
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton, Sybil Thorndike, Emlyn Williams
Rating67% 3.3945453.3945453.3945453.3945453.394545
In this social satire, Barbara Undershaft (Hiller), an idealistic major in the Salvation Army, is deeply troubled by the fact that her father, Andrew Undershaft (Robert Morley), is a wealthy weapons manufacturer. Meanwhile, Andrew is looking for an heir for his industrial empire, in particular a foundling like himself.

Producer

Androcles and the Lion, 1h38
Directed by Nicholas Ray, Chester Erskine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Films based on plays
Actors Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Alan Young, Robert Newton, Maurice Evans, Elsa Lanchester
Roles Producer
Rating59% 2.9997052.9997052.9997052.9997052.999705
The plot is a more or less careful rendition of George Bernard Shaw's script. Androcles, a fugitive Christian tailor, accompanied by his nagging wife, is on the run from his Roman persecutors. While hiding in the forest he comes upon a wild lion who approaches him with a wounded paw. Androcles sees that the cause is a large thorn embedded in its paw, which he draws out while talking baby language to the lion. His wife had fled, and Androcles is next seen in a procession of Christian prisoners on their way to the Colosseum in Rome. They are joined by the fierce convert Ferrovius who subsequently provides much of the comic entertainment in his struggle to keep his nature in check. Love interest is also introduced by the growing attraction of the Captain to the noble-born convert Lavinia. Eventually the party is sent into the arena to be slaughtered by gladiators, but Ferrovius kills all of them and accepts a commission offered him in the Praetorian Guards. To appease the crowd, one Christian is needed to be savaged by the lions and Androcles volunteers in order to uphold 'the honour of the tailors'. It turns out that the lion is the one that Androcles has helped, and the two waltz round the arena to the acclaim of the people. The Emperor dashes behind the scenes to get a closer look and has to be rescued from the lion by Androcles. He then orders an end to the persecution of Christians and allows Androcles and his new 'pet' to depart in peace.
Caesar and Cleopatra, 2h2
Directed by Gabriel Pascal
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Historical, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Politique, Political films, Films based on plays, Films about royalty
Actors Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson, Francis L. Sullivan, Cecil Parker
Roles Producer
Rating61% 3.099643.099643.099643.099643.09964
In this philosophical coming-of-age film, an aging Julius Caesar takes possession of the Egyptian capital city of Alexandria, and tries to resolve a feud between young Princess Cleopatra and her younger brother Ptolemy. During the resulting sometimes-murderous court intrigues, Caesar develops a special relationship with Cleopatra, and teaches her how to use her royal power.
Major Barbara, 2h11
Directed by David Lean, Harold French, Gabriel Pascal
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton, Sybil Thorndike, Emlyn Williams
Roles Producer
Rating67% 3.3945453.3945453.3945453.3945453.394545
In this social satire, Barbara Undershaft (Hiller), an idealistic major in the Salvation Army, is deeply troubled by the fact that her father, Andrew Undershaft (Robert Morley), is a wealthy weapons manufacturer. Meanwhile, Andrew is looking for an heir for his industrial empire, in particular a foundling like himself.
Pygmalion
Pygmalion (1939)
, 1h36
Directed by Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr, Leslie Howard, Helen Westley, Jean Cadell
Roles Producer
Rating76% 3.844083.844083.844083.844083.84408
Le professeur Henry Higgins, alors qu'il étudie de loin les manières d'une pauvre vendeuse à la sauvette de Piccadilly Circus, parie avec un collègue qu'il peut, en quelque temps et à titre d'expérience, complètement corriger l'allure et le langage de celle-ci, pour en faire une femme de la haute société.
Reasonable Doubt, 1h13
Directed by George King
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Nancy Burne, John Stuart
Roles Producer

The Living Dead, 1h29
Directed by Richard Oswald
Genres Horror
Actors Paul Wegener, Maria Koppenhöfer, Gerhard Bienert, Blandine Ebinger, Eugen Gottlob Klöpfer, Paul Henckels
Roles Producer
Rating64% 3.2326453.2326453.2326453.2326453.232645
A crazed scientist, Morder (Paul Wegener), driven even crazier by his nagging wife, murders her and walls her up in a basement, a la Poe's The Black Cat. He then flees as the police and a reporter, Frank Briggs (Harald Paulsen), set out to track him down. Morder eventually escapes, by pretending to be insane, into an asylum. Though here the patients has managed to free themselves, lock up the guards, and take charge (inspired by Poe's The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether). After Morder's final escape, he turns up as president of a secret Suicide Club (based on the short story by Stevenson).
The Captain from Köpenick, 1h47
Directed by Richard Oswald
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Max Adalbert, Paul Otto, Max Gülstorff, Käthe Haack, Friedrich Kayßler, Hans Leibelt
Roles Producer
Rating70% 3.529683.529683.529683.529683.52968
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick is based on a true story that took place in Germany in 1906. A poor cobbler named Wilhelm Voigt purchased the second-hand uniform of a Prussian infantry captain. Wearing this, he travelled to the borough of Köpenick and ordered a troop of guardsmen to place themselves under his command. He then declared the town hall to be under military law, ordering the arrest of the mayor and treasurer and confiscating all the funds in the exchequer. In this film version it's a considerable sum of 4,000 reichsmarks. Voigt's orders were obeyed without question and he temporarily got away with the caper, although he was eventually caught.