Daniel Gélin
Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin (19 May 1921 – 29 November 2002) was a French actor.
Gélin was born in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, the son of Yvonne (née Le Méner) and Alfred Ernest Joseph Gélin.
When he was ten, his family moved to Saint-Malo where Daniel went to college until he was expelled for 'uncouthness'. His father then found him a job in a shop that sold cans of salted cod. It was seeing the shooting of Marc Allégret's film Entrée des artistes that triggered his desire to go to Paris to train to be an actor. He trained at the Cours Simon in Paris before entering the Conservatoire national d'art dramatique. There he met Louis Jouvet and embarked on a theatrical career. He made his first film appearance in 1940 in Miquette and for several years was an extra or played small roles in French films. He appeared with Jean Gabin and Marlene Dietrich in Martin Roumagnac (1946).
He won his first leading role in Rendez-vous de juillet (1949). From that time, he went on to appear in more than 150 films, including Max Ophüls' films La Ronde (1950) and Le Plaisir (1952), Jacques Becker's Édouard et Caroline (1951), Sacha Guitry's films Si Versailles m'était conté (Royal Affairs in Versailles) (1954) and Napoléon (1955), Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Jean Cocteau's Le Testament d'Orphée (1960), Le souffle au cœur (Murmur of the Heart) (1971), and La Nuit de Varennes (That Night in Varennes) (1982). He also wrote and directed one film, The Long Teeth, in 1952.
Gélin was a leading man in French cinema during the 1950s, but his career declined with the coming of the New Wave. He worked in theater for several years, but later found new success on screen as a character actor. He appeared extensively in French films and television productions from the 1970s until his death, often playing cynical characters or grumpy old men.
In 1946, Gélin married actress Danièle Delorme with whom he had a son, actor, director and producer Xavier Gélin. They divorced in 1954. While still married to Delorme, he had an affair with 17 year old model Marie Christine Schneider that produced a daughter, Maria Schneider. Due to his status as a married man, Gélin could not recognize Maria as his daughter. He visited the child several times but eventually severed his relationship with her mother. Maria Schneider and Daniel Gélin reconnected when she was sixteen and came to visit him. They remained in contact, although their relationship was irregular.
Gélin was married to model Sylvie Hirsch from 1954 until their divorce in 1968. This marriage produced three children, Pascal (who died aged one year), Fiona , and Manuel, the latter two also becoming actors. In 1973, he remarried to Lydie Zaks with whom he had a daughter, Laura.
Gélin died in Paris on 29 November 2002 of kidney failure.
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Acted in
Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir"
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "La Ronde"
2008
as Self (archive footage)
À l'abri des regards indiscrets
2002
as Abdel-Robert
Une femme d'action
1997
Obsession
1997
as Xavier Favre
Men, Women: A User's Manual
1996
as le veuf
Les Bidochon
1996
as Le père Bidochon
Ghost with Driver
1996
as Le passeur (Le guide céleste)
Runaways
1995
as Bruno
Pushing the Limits
1994
as Le père de Fiona
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994
as Mr. Mireille, the 2nd projectionist
Poorly Extinguished Fires
1994
as The gentleman from the beach
Warrior Spirit
1994
as John Ball
Roulez jeunesse !
1993
as Jean Moulinier
De force avec d'autres
1993
as L'autre lui-même
Coup de jeune
1993
as Gaudeamus at 70
Iran: Days of Crisis
1991
as Shah
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
1991
as Roland Grumaud
Mauvaise fille
1991
as Fernand
Les Nuls, l'émission
1990
as Self - Guest
Promotion canapé
1990
as Le responsable des inspecteurs de la Justice
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
1990
as Self
Mister Frost
1990
as Simon Scolari
The summer of all sorrows
1989
as papy
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
1988
as Pierre Duvivier, Albert's father
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1988
as Self (archive footage)
Life Is a Long Quiet River
1988
as Docteur Mavial
Dandin
1988
as Monsieur de Sotenville
Marc et Sophie
1987
as Edmond, le beau-père
Public Security
1987
as Martino Morando
Via Montenapoleone
1987
as padre di Elena
The Legacy of Guldenburgs
1987
as Gregor Baschkurin
Pétition
1987
as Stanek
Le Tiroir secret
1986
as Jean-Pierre Jolivet
Killing Cars
1986
as Kellermann
Blitz
1985
The Children
1985
as Enrico
The Night of Varennes
1982
as De Wendel
Guy de Maupassant
1982
as Gustave
Season of Peace in Paris
1981
Signé Furax
1981
as Broutechoux
Tarendol
1980
as Bazalo
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
1979
as Don Gomez
Schwüle Tage
1978
as Vater
The Suspended Vocation
1978
as Malagrida
La Discorde
1978
as Bernard
We Will All Meet in Paradise
1977
as Bastien, le metteur en scène
La jalousie
1976
as Albert Blondel
Trop c'est trop
1975
as Flic
Dialogues of the Exiles
1975
Numéro un
1975
as Self
Système 2
1975
as Self
Midi Première
1975
as Self
Ariane
1974
as The comedian
No Pockets in a Shroud
1974
as Laurence
Der große Preis
1974
as Self
Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue
1973
as Dupin
The Police Serve the Citizens?
1973
as Brera
Far from Dallas
1972
as Jean
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self
Un enfant dans la ville
1971
as Gustave, the bartender
Swedish Fly Girls
1971
as André
Murmur of the Heart
1971
as Charles Chevalier
Arsène Lupin
1971
as Daubrecq
The Servant
1970
as Dr. Robert Marbois
Destroy, She Said
1969
as Bernard Alione
Sadistic Hallucinations
1969
as Charles
Slogan
1969
as Le père d'Evelyne
The Most Beautiful Month
1968
as Le capitaine
The Truce
1968
as Arno
Witness Out of Hell
1967
as Bora Petrović
Black Sun
1966
as Guy Rodier
Is Paris Burning?
1966
as Yves Bayet
À belles dents
1966
as Bernard
Line of Demarcation
1966
as Doctor Jacques Lafaye
The Sultans
1966
as Léo
An Affair of States
1966
as Ballard
The Sleeping Car Murder
1965
as Le vétérinaire titulaire, chargé de cours (non crédité)
Les Saintes Chéries
1965
as Pierre Lagarde
Uncertain Verification
1965
as (archive footage)
The Hour of Truth
1965
as Davod
The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
1965
as Gunther Smith
Cherchez l'idole
1964
as Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)
How to Make a French Dish
1964
as Raymond
Three Girls in Paris
1963
as Raymond
Portuguese Vacation
1963
as Daniel
Règlements de compte
1963
Hitch-Hike
1962
as le comédien qui répète "Cyrano"
Réveille-toi, chérie
1961
as Masure
In the Mouth of the Wolf
1961
as Un drogué
The Season for Love
1961
as Jacques Saint-Ford
Shadows of Adultery
1961
as Eric Kraemmer
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
1960
as Lieutenant Miguel Villard
Testament of Orpheus
1960
as The Intern (uncredited)
Carthage in Flames
1960
as Phegor
Julie la rousse
1959
as Édouard Lavigne / Jean Lavigne
This Desired Body
1959
as Guillaume Féraud
Follow Me Young Man
1958
as Michel Corbier
Port of Desire
1958
as Pierre
Three Days to Live
1958
as Simon Belin
Too Many Lovers
1957
as Alain Cartier
There's Always a Price Tag
1957
as Robert Montillon
Mort en fraude
1957
as Paul Horcier
I'll Get Back to Kandara
1956
as Bernard Cormière
Good Evening Paris
1956
as Georges Bernier / Self
Plucking the Daisy
1956
as Daniel Roy
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956
as Louis Bernard
Maid in Paris
1956
as Antoine du Merlet
Napoleon
1955
as Napoléon Bonaparte
Lovers' Net
1955
as Pierre Roubier
The Cheerful Squadron
1954
as Il soldato Frédéric d'Héricourt
Woman of Rome
1954
as Mino
On Trial
1954
as Léonard Maurizius
Love in a Hot Climate
1954
as Ricardo Garcia
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
1954
as Narrator (voice)
Reflets de Cannes
1954
as Self
Public Opinion
1954
Stain on the Snow
1954
as Frank Friedmayer
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1954
as Jean Collinet
The Slave
1953
as Michel Landa
Rue de l'Estrapade
1953
as Robert
Voice of Silence
1953
as L'ancien prisonnier
Les Dents longues
1953
as Louis Commandeur
The Moment of Truth
1952
as Daniel Prevost
Torticola versus Frankensberg
1952
as The Man who sleeps in a Coffin
Le Plaisir
1952
as Jean
Adorable Creatures
1952
as André Noblet
Young Love
1951
as Jean Bompart
Dirty Hands
1951
as Hugo
Chicago Digest
1951
as Coffino
Venom and Eternity
1951
as Self
Edward and Caroline
1951
as Edouard Mortier
La légende cruelle
1951
as Narrator (voice)
God Needs Men
1950
as Joseph Le Berre
La Ronde
1950
as Alfred, le jeune homme
Rendezvous in July
1949
as Lucien Bonnard
The Hell of Lost Pilots
1949
as Lieutenant Villeneuve
The Murdered Model
1948
as Léopold
The Woman in Red
1947
as Saladin
Mirror
1947
as Charles
La Nuit de Sybille
1947
as Stany
The Room Upstairs
1946
as Le surveillant du collège
A Friend Will Come Tonight
1946
as Pierre Ribault
The Temptation of Barbizon
1946
as Michel
Les Cadets de l'océan
1945
as Philippe Demantes
L'Enquête du 58
1945
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
1944
as (uncredited)
Lucrèce
1943
as Un collégien
Soyez les bienvenus
1942
Strangers in the House
1942
as (rôle non nommé et non crédité)
Her First Affair
1941
as Chauveau-Laplace (uncredited)
Radio Surprises
1940
as Extra (uncredited)
Miquette
1940