Daniel Gélin
Biography
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. Source: Article "Daniel Gélin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Louis Bernard
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Flic
Trop c'est trop
Сезона мира у Паризу
Docteur Mavial
La vie est un long fleuve tranquille
Le vétérinaire titulaire, chargé de cours (uncredited)
Compartiment tueurs
Yves Bayet
Paris brûle-t-il?
Pierre
La fille de Hambourg
Simon Scolari
Mister Frost
Bastien, stage director
Nous irons tous au paradis
De Wendel
La Nuit de Varennes
Charles Chevalier
Le Souffle au cœur
The Intern (uncredited)
Le Testament d'Orphée
Mr. Mireille, the 2nd projectionist
La cité de la peur
Napoléon Bonaparte
Napoléon
Jean
Le Plaisir
Pierre Duvivier, Albert's father
Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté
Laurence
Un linceul n'a pas de poches
Jean Bompart
Une histoire d'amour
Daniel Roy
En effeuillant la marguerite
Louis Commandeur
Les Dents longues
Malagrida
La Vocation suspendue
Alfred, le jeune homme
La Ronde
Roland Grumaud
Les Secrets professionnels du Docteur Apfelglück
Daniel Prévost
La Minute de vérité
Doctor Jacques Lafaye
La Ligne de démarcation
(uncredited)
Les Inconnus dans la maison
Soyez les bienvenus
Chauveau-Laplace (uncredited)
Premier rendez-vous
Extra (uncredited)
Les Surprises de la radio
Léonard Maurizius
L'Affaire Maurizius
(uncredited)
Les Petites du quai aux fleurs
Mino
La romana
Stany
La Nuit de Sybille
Saladin
La Femme en rouge
le veuf
Hommes, femmes : Mode d'emploi
Lieutenant Villeneuve
Le paradis des pilotes perdus
Enrico
Les Enfants
Self
Traité de bave et d'éternité
le comédien qui répète "Cyrano"
Les Petits Matins
Le surveillant du collège
Martin Roumagnac
Simon Belin
Trois jours à vivre
Lucien Bonnard
Rendez-vous de juillet
Xavier Favre
Obsession
John Ball
Warrior Spirit
Pierre Roubier
Les Amants du Tage
Guy Rodier
Soleil noir
(archive footage)
La verifica incerta
Charles
Miroir
Kellermann
Killing Cars
L'Enquête du 58
Léo
Les Sultans
Monsieur de Sotenville
Dandin
Gaudeamus at 70
Coup de jeune
Jean Moulinier
Roulez jeunesse !
papy
L'été de tous les chagrins
Phegor
Cartagine in fiamme
Eric Kraemmer
La Proie pour l'ombre
Edouard Mortier
Édouard et Caroline
Don Gomez
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
Hugo
Les Mains sales
Robert
Rue de l'estrapade
Pierre Ribault
Un ami viendra ce soir...
Le père Bidochon
Les Bidochon
Broutechoux
Signé Furax
Le passeur (Le guide céleste)
Fantôme avec chauffeur
Bora Petrović
Die Zeugin aus der Hölle
Brera
La polizia è al servizio del cittadino?
André
Christa
Robert Montillon
Retour de manivelle
André Noblet
Adorables créatures
Ricardo Garcia
Sang et lumières
Guillaume Féraud
Ce corps tant désiré
Bernard
À belles dents
Charles
Une femme d'action
Ballard
Zwei Girls vom roten Stern
Alain Cartier
Charmants Garçons
Vater
Schwüle Tage
Gustave
Guy de Maupassant
Raymond
Tre piger i Paris
Jean
Far from Dallas
Blitz
Opinione pubblica
Le père d'Evelyne
Slogan
College student
Lucrèce
Règlements de compte
Gunther Smith
El Niño y el Muro
Albert Blondel
La jalousie
Stanek
Pétition
L'ancien prisonnier
La maison du silence
Jean Collinet
Si Versailles m'était conté
The Man who sleeps in a Coffin
Torticola contre Frankensberg
Shah
L'Amérique en otage
Fernand
Mauvaise fille
The comedian
Ariane
Charles
Hallucinations sadiques
Michel
La Tentation de Barbizon
Davod
L'heure de la vérité
Philippe Demantes
Les Cadets de l'océan
Michel Corbier
Suivez-moi jeune homme
Joseph Le Berre
Dieu a besoin des hommes
Diálogo de exiliados
Martino Morando
Sécurité publique
padre di Elena
Via Montenapoleone
Arno
La trêve
L'autre lui-même
De force avec d'autres
Il soldato Frédéric d'Héricourt
Allegro squadrone
Paul Horcier
Mort en fraude
Bernard Cormière
Je reviendrai à Kandara
Édouard Lavigne / Jean Lavigne
Julie la rousse
Jacques Saint-Ford
La morte-saison des amours
Le père de Fiona
Pushing the Limits
Raymond
La Bonne Soupe
Bruno
Fugueuses
Miquette
Masure
Réveille-toi, chérie
Frank Friedmayer
La neige était sale
Self (archive footage)
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "La Ronde"
Self (archive footage)
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir"
Un drogué
Dans la gueule du loup
Abdel-Robert
À l'abri des regards indiscrets
Self
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
Léopold
Le Mannequin assassiné
Self (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Georges Bernier / Self
Bonsoir Paris
Michel Landa
L'esclave
Lieutenant Miguel Villard
Le tre eccetera del colonnello
Bernard Alione
Détruire, dit-elle
Narrator (voice)
La légende cruelle
Dr. Robert Marbois
La servante
Le capitaine
Le mois le plus beau
Self (archive footage)
Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
Dupin
Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue
Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)
Cherchez l'idole
Antoine du Merlet
Paris canaille
Daniel
Vacances portugaises
Gustave, the bartender
Un enfant dans la ville
Le responsable des inspecteurs de la Justice
Promotion canapé
The gentleman from the beach
Des feux mal éteints
Bernard
La Discorde
Coffino
Chicago Digest
Narrator (voice)
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
François Bonjean
Les murs
Un delitto
Self
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
144
Gender
Male
Birthday
1921-05-19
Place of Birth
Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Also Known As
Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin