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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Known for
Martin Roumagnac
Le surveillant du collège
Woman of Rome
Mino
Midi Première
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
The Sleeping Car Murder
Le vétérinaire titulaire, chargé de cours (uncredited)
Mister Frost
Simon Scolari
Swedish Fly Girls
André
Numéro un
Self
La Ronde
Alfred, le jeune homme
Murmur of the Heart
Charles Chevalier
Le Plaisir
Jean
Un delitto
Judge Freshville
Three Days to Live
Simon Belin
Obsession
Xavier Favre
Line of Demarcation
Doctor Jacques Lafaye
Runaways
Bruno
Adorable Creatures
André Noblet
Maigret
Le père Nicolas
Portuguese Vacation
Daniel
Napoleon
Napoléon Bonaparte
The Night of Varennes
De Wendel
Strangers in the House
(uncredited)
Killing Cars
Kellermann
Cherchez l'idole
Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)
God Needs Men
Joseph Le Berre
Edward and Caroline
Edouard Mortier
Is Paris Burning?
Yves Bayet
Maid in Paris
Antoine du Merlet
Three Girls in Paris
Raymond
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Louis Bernard
Warrior Spirit
John Ball
Mirror
Charles
Too Many Lovers
Alain Cartier
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
Arsène Lupin
Daubrecq
Voice of Silence
L'ancien prisonnier
Der große Preis
Self
Les Dents longues
Louis Commandeur
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Mr. Mireille, the 2nd projectionist
There's Always a Price Tag
Robert Montillon
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Roland Grumaud
Rendezvous in July
Lucien Bonnard
We Will All Meet in Paradise
Bastien, stage director
Iran: Days of Crisis
Shah
Pétition
Stanek
Roulez jeunesse !
Jean Moulinier
On Trial
Léonard Maurizius
Stain on the Snow
Frank Friedmayer
The Sultans
Léo
The Police Serve the Citizens?
Brera
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
Pierre Duvivier, Albert's father
Her First Affair
Chauveau-Laplace (uncredited)
No Pockets in a Shroud
Laurence
Ghost with Driver
Le passeur (Le guide céleste)
Public Security
Martino Morando
Love in a Hot Climate
Ricardo Garcia
Young Love
Jean Bompart
Poorly Extinguished Fires
The gentleman from the beach
The Children
Enrico
Testament of Orpheus
The Intern (uncredited)
A Friend Will Come Tonight
Pierre Ribault
Les Bidochon
Le père Bidochon
Sadistic Hallucinations
Charles
The Truce
Arno
Witness Out of Hell
Bora Petrović
À l'abri des regards indiscrets
Abdel-Robert
This Desired Body
Guillaume Féraud
The Cheerful Squadron
Frédéric d'Héricourt
Season of Peace in Paris
Rue de l'estrapade
Robert
The Legacy of Guldenburgs
Gregor Baschkurin
Dialogues of the Exiles
Marc et Sophie
Edmond, le beau-père
Promotion canapé
Le responsable des inspecteurs de la Justice
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
Self
Life Is a Long Quiet River
Docteur Mavial
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Lieutenant Miguel Villard
Reflets de Cannes
Self
I'll Get Back to Kandara
Bernard Cormière
Dirty Hands
Hugo
Slogan
Evelyne's father
Lucrèce
College student
Far from Dallas
Jean
Soyez les bienvenus
Chicago Digest
Coffino
An Affair of States
Ballard
Carthage in Flames
Phegor
Miquette
The Servant
Dr. Robert Marbois
Lovers' Net
Pierre Roubier
Hitch-Hike
le comédien qui répète "Cyrano"
The Moment of Truth
Daniel Prévost
The Temptation of Barbizon
Michel
The Season for Love
Jacques Saint-Ford
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
(uncredited)
Venom and Eternity
Self
Blitz
Kellerman
Uncertain Verification
(archive footage)
Shadows of Adultery
Eric Kraemmer
Les Cadets de l'océan
Philippe Demantes
The Most Beautiful Month
Le capitaine
Good Evening Paris
Georges Bernier / Self
Système 2
Self
Les Saintes Chéries
Pierre Lagarde
Black Sun
Guy Rodier
À belles dents
Bernard
Follow Me Young Man
Michel Corbier
Destroy, She Said
Bernard Alione
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Jean Collinet
La Discorde
Bernard
The Murdered Model
Léopold
Ariane
The comedian
Men, Women: A User's Manual
le veuf
The Suspended Vocation
Malagrida
Règlements de compte
Nicky
Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
Self (archive footage)
Torticola versus Frankensberg
The Man who sleeps in a Coffin
Plucking the Daisy
Daniel Roy
The Woman in Red
Saladin
Trop c'est trop
Flic
Port of Desire
Pierre
The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
Gunther Smith
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
Narrator (voice)
Radio Surprises
Extra (uncredited)
Signé Furax
Broutechoux
Schwüle Tage
Vater
Dandin
Monsieur de Sotenville
Mort en fraude
Paul Horcier
La légende cruelle
Narrator (voice)
The Hour of Truth
Davod
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
Self
Le Tiroir secret
Jean-Pierre Jolivet
Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue
Dupin
La jalousie
Albert Blondel
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
Don Gomez
L'Enquête du 58
Guy de Maupassant
Gustave
De force avec d'autres
L'autre lui-même
Tarendol
Bazalo
Mauvaise fille
Fernand
The Slave
Michel Landa
Via Montenapoleone
padre di Elena
How to Make a French Dish
Raymond
In the Mouth of the Wolf
Un drogué
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir"
Self (archive footage)
Public Opinion
Paolo Jaier
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "La Ronde"
Self (archive footage)
Réveille-toi, chérie
Masure
The Hell of Lost Pilots
Lieutenant Villeneuve
Coup de jeune
Gaudeamus at 70
Pushing the Limits
Le père de Fiona
The summer of all sorrows
papy
Julie la rousse
Édouard Lavigne / Jean Lavigne
Olga e i suoi figli
Il primario
Un enfant dans la ville
Gustave, the bartender
La Nuit de Sybille
Stany
Une femme d'action
Charles
Les murs
François Bonjean
Sacrée Soirée
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Cinépanorama
Self
Les Nuls, l'émission
Self - Guest