Gabriel Pellon Explained

Gabriel Pellon
Birth Date:	10 December 1900
Birth Place:	Metz, German Empire
Death Date:	28 December 1975
Death Place:	Munich, Bavaria West Germany
Occupation:	Artist, Art director
Yearsactive:	1929–1967 (film)

Gabriel Pellon (1900–1975) was a German painter and art director.^[1] Pellon was born in Metz, which was then part of the German Empire having been annexed from France at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. When Metz was later annexed by France, Pellon settled in Germany where he established himself as a leading designer of film sets.

Selected filmography

• The Merry Wives of Vienna (1931)
• The Night Without Pause (1931)
• A City Upside Down (1933)
• The Man Who Couldn't Say No (1938)
• Little County Court (1938)
• The Unfaithful Eckehart (1940)
• Lightning Around Barbara (1941)
• The Bath in the Barn (1943)
• Martina (1949)
• One Night Apart (1950)
• The Woman from Last Night (1950)
• The Black Forest Girl (1950)
• Dance Into Happiness (1951)
• Don't Ask My Heart (1952)
• Three Days of Fear (1952)
• Have Sunshine in Your Heart (1953)
• Everything for Father (1953)
• Diary of a Married Woman (1953)
• We'll Talk About Love Later (1953)
• My Sister and I (1954)
• The Big Star Parade (1954)
• The Great Test (1954)
• Love, Dance and a Thousand Songs (1955)
• The Star of Rio (1955)
• Fruit in the Neighbour's Garden (1956)
• Where the Ancient Forests Rustle (1956)
• My Sixteen Sons (1956)
• Beloved Corinna (1956)
• The Mad Bomberg (1957)
• The Copper (1958)

Bibliography

• Shandley, Robert. Rubble Films: German Cinema In Shadow Of the Third Reich. Temple University Press, 2010.

Notes and References

1. Shandley p.212