Abel Adams

{{Short description|Finnish film producer (1879–1938)}} {{Infobox person | name = Abel Adams | image = Abel Adams.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1879|3|14|df=y}} | birth_place = Karttula, Finland | death_date = {{death date and age|1938|7|14|1879|3|14|df=y}} | death_place = Helsinki, Finland | occupation = | yearsactive = }} '''Abel Adams''' (born '''Aapeli Korhonen''', 14 March 1879 – 14 July 1938) was a Finnish film producer and the founder of Adams Filmi.<ref>{{cite web|title=ELONET – Abel Adams|url=http://www.elonet.fi/name/he5k1b/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130217113547/http://www.elonet.fi/name/he5k1b/|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 17, 2013|publisher=KAVA|accessdate=31 January 2013}}</ref> He was born in Karttula and, in the 1930s, ran the largest chain of cinemas in Finland.<ref>{{cite web|last=Uusitalo|first=Kari|title=Adams, Abel (1879–1938) {{!}} Biografiakeskus, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura|url=http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/kb/artikkeli/5032/|publisher=Biografiakeskus, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura|accessdate=31 January 2013}}</ref> After his death in Helsinki in 1938, Adams Filmi stopped producing films for ten years.<ref name="Soila1998">{{cite book|last=Soila|first=Tytti|title=Nordic National Cinemas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lMP7z4PQh8QC&pg=PA41|accessdate=10 August 2012|date=20 February 1998|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-08195-5|page=41}}</ref>

==Filmography== *''Meren ja lemmen aallot'' (1926) *''Taistelu Heikkilän talosta'' (1936) *''Nuorena nukkunut'' (1937) *''Kiusaus'' (1938)

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0010716}}

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