Editing Gabriel Axel (section)

{{Short description|Danish film director, actor, writer and producer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| image            = Gabriel Axel (1959).jpg
| caption          = Gabriel Axel (1959)
| name             = Gabriel Axel
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1918|4|18|df=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Aarhus]], Denmark
| birth_name       = Axel Gabriel Erik Mørch
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|2014|2|9|1918|4|18|df=y}}
| death_place      = [[Bagsværd]] (near [[Copenhagen]]), Denmark
| nationality      = Danish
| education        = Actor
| alma_mater       = [[Royal Danish Theatre]]
| occupation       = Film director, actor, writer, producer
| years_active     = 1945–2001
| known_for        = ''[[Babette's Feast]]''
| spouse           = Lucie Juliette Laraignou (m. 1948–1996)
| children         = 4<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://ekstrabladet.dk/underholdning/dkkendte/article4648311.ece|title=Gabriel Axel sang franske sange aftenen, før han døde|first=Af: Helle Kastholm|last=Hansen|website=ekstrabladet.dk|date=10 February 2014 }}</ref>
| awards           = [[Academy Award for Best International Feature Film|Academy Award]]<br />[[Rungstedlund Award]]
}}

'''Axel Gabriel Erik Mørch''' better known as '''Gabriel Axel''' (18 April 1918&nbsp;– 9 February 2014)<ref name="Bergan">[[Ronald Bergan]] [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/10/gabriel-axel Obituary: Gabriel Axel], ''The Guardian'', 10 February 2014</ref> was a Danish film director, actor, writer and producer, best known for ''[[Babette's Feast]]'' (1987), which he wrote and directed.<ref name="BBC">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26120512|title=Babette's Feast director Gabriel Axel dies|access-date=10 February 2014|work=BBC News|date=10 February 2014 }}</ref><ref name="digitalcommons.unomaha.edu">{{cite web|url=http://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol16/iss2/10/|title="Babette's Feast and the Goodness of God" by Thomas J. Curry|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130215210234/http://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol16/iss2/10/|archive-date=15 February 2013|df=dmy}}</ref>