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