Born in Arad, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary (now Arad, Romania). Despite his French-sounding name, "Gabby" was one of the band of Hungarian exiles that centered around Alexander Korda. His first screen producing credit was the German film UNHEIMLICHE GESCHICHTEN / UNHOLY TALES (1932). Moving to the UK, his Pascal Film Productions next produced George King's REASONABLE DOUBT for MGM and Lawrence Huntington's CAFE MASCOT for Paramount (both 1936), followed by Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard's PYGMALION for MGM in 1938. Pascal produced and directed his next two Shaw adaptations, MAJOR BARBARA (1941) and CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA (1952). His last credit was as producer of Shaw's ANDROCLES AND THE LION (1952), directed by Chester Erskine and Nicholas Ray and distributed by RKO.    Nominated for Best Picture 1938: PYGMALION - Producer at MGM 1 nomination