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David Abel (violinist)
David Abel may refer to: * David Abel (general) David Oliver Abel ( my, ဒေးဗစ် အေဘယ်လ်; 28 February 1935 – 18 January 2019) was a Burmese economist, retired Brigadier General in the Myanmar Army and former cabinet minister. He served variously as Minister of Commerc ... (1935–2019), Myanmar Army general and cabinet minister * David Abel (cinematographer) (1883–1973), cinematographer See also * David Abell (other) {{hndis, Abel, David ...
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David Abel (general)
David Oliver Abel ( my, ဒေးဗစ် အေဘယ်လ်; 28 February 1935 – 18 January 2019) was a Burmese economist, retired Brigadier General in the Myanmar Army and former cabinet minister. He served variously as Minister of Commerce, Minister of Finance and Revenue, and Minister of National Planning and Economic Development. At one time, he ran all three ministries simultaneously. He was considered the country's economic czar throughout the 1990s. Abel retired from the State Peace and Development Council and vacated his position as the Minister of the Chairman's Office on 25 August 2003. Early life and education Abel was born in 1935 in Insein, near Rangoon, but his family's roots were in Maymyo (now Pyin Oo Lwin). Abel's father, Alfred T. Abel was a Burma Railways engineer, while his mother Daw Chai, was a senior school teacher. Abel's father is an ethnic Indian Catholic, but he does have some Jewish ancestry. He is a Roman Catholic of mixed Anglo-Burman and ...
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David Abel (cinematographer)
David Abel (15 December 1883 – 12 November 1973) was a cinematographer. Biography Born in Amsterdam to Russian parents, Abel began his career in 1916. He came to the United States as a child in the first decade of the 1900s and worked as a portrait photographer in New York before entering films with Flying A Studios in 1913. His credits include '' Grumpy'' (1930), ''The Virtuous Sin'' (1930), ''Huckleberry Finn'' (1931), ''The Gay Divorcee'' (1934), ''Top Hat'' (1935), ''Follow the Fleet'' (1936), and ''The Affairs of Susan'' (1945). At RKO Pictures during the 1930s, Abel was a favorite collaborator of director Mark Sandrich and was responsible for the photography of five Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals (''The Gay Divorcee'', ''Top Hat'', ''Follow the Fleet'', ''Swing Time'', and ''Shall We Dance''). Other credits include ''The Awful Truth'', ''Huckleberry Finn'', ''Hips, Hips, Hooray!'', '' Grumpy'', ''The Virtuous Sin'', and '' History Is Made at Night''. He filmed a to ...
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