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Daniel Gélin
Born · May 19, 1921
Died · November 29, 2002 (81 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Bio
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.
Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2009
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir"
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2008
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "La Ronde"
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2008
À l'abri des regards indiscrets
Abdel-Robert
5.5
2002
Une femme d'action
Charles
0.0
1997
Obsession
Xavier Favre
4.0
1997
Men, Women: A User's Manual
le veuf
6.0
1996
Les Bidochon
Le père Bidochon
3.2
1996
Ghost with Driver
Le passeur (Le guide céleste)
5.0
1996
Runaways
Bruno
5.8
1995
Pushing the Limits
Le père de Fiona
0.0
1994
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Mr. Mireille, the 2nd projectionist
7.5
1994
Poorly Extinguished Fires
The gentleman from the beach
0.0
1994
Warrior Spirit
John Ball
5.0
1994
Roulez jeunesse !
Jean Moulinier
5.5
1993
De force avec d'autres
L'autre lui-même
5.0
1993
Coup de jeune
Gaudeamus at 70
5.0
1993
Iran: Days of Crisis
Shah
6.0
1991
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Roland Grumaud
5.3
1991
Mauvaise fille
Fernand
2.0
1991
Les Nuls, l'émission
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
8.3
1990
Promotion canapé
Le responsable des inspecteurs de la Justice
5.1
1990
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
Self
0.0
1990
Mister Frost
Simon Scolari
6.1
1990
The summer of all sorrows
papy
0.0
1989
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
Pierre Duvivier, Albert's father
7.3
1988
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
6.0
1988
Life Is a Long Quiet River
Docteur Mavial
6.8
1988
Dandin
Monsieur de Sotenville
4.4
1988
Marc et Sophie
Edmond, le beau-père · (220 episodes)
4.9
1987
Sacrée soirée
Self · (4 episodes)
6.2
1987
Public Security
Martino Morando
0.0
1987
Via Montenapoleone
padre di Elena
3.8
1987
The Legacy of Guldenburgs
Gregor Baschkurin · (1 episode)
4.0
1987
Pétition
Stanek
0.0
1987
Le Tiroir secret
Jean-Pierre Jolivet · (1 episode)
3.5
1986
Killing Cars
Kellermann
3.2
1986
Blitz
2.0
1985
The Children
Enrico
5.9
1985
Un delitto
0.0
1984
The Night of Varennes
De Wendel
6.8
1982
Guy de Maupassant
Gustave
5.0
1982
Season of Peace in Paris
5.1
1981
Signé Furax
Broutechoux
4.8
1981
Tarendol
Bazalo · (4 episodes)
2.0
1980
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
Don Gomez
2.0
1979
Schwüle Tage
Vater
0.0
1978
The Suspended Vocation
Malagrida
6.0
1978
La Discorde
Bernard
0.0
1978
We Will All Meet in Paradise
Bastien, stage director
6.7
1977
La jalousie
Albert Blondel
0.0
1976
Trop c'est trop
Flic
5.7
1975
Dialogues of the Exiles
6.6
1975
Numéro un
Self · (2 episodes)
6.0
1975
Système 2
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · (3 episodes)
6.0
1975
Midi Première
Self · (1 episode)
10.0
1975
Ariane
The comedian
0.0
1974
No Pockets in a Shroud
Laurence
5.4
1974
The Grand Prize
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
1974
The Police Serve the Citizens?
Brera
6.2
1973
Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue
Dupin
7.0
1973
Far from Dallas
Jean
6.0
1972
Le Grand Échiquier
Self · (1 episode)
8.0
1972
Un enfant dans la ville
Gustave, the bartender
0.0
1971
Swedish Fly Girls
André
5.2
1971
Murmur of the Heart
Charles Chevalier
7.1
1971
Arsène Lupin
Daubrecq · (1 episode)
7.7
1971
The Servant
Dr. Robert Marbois
6.0
1970
Destroy, She Said
Bernard Alione
6.8
1969
Sadistic Hallucinations
Charles
2.7
1969
Slogan
Le père d'Evelyne
5.8
1969
The Most Beautiful Month
Le capitaine
4.0
1968
The Truce
Arno
0.0
1968
Witness Out of Hell
Bora Petrović
6.7
1967
Black Sun
Guy Rodier
4.0
1966
Is Paris Burning?
Yves Bayet
7.2
1966
À belles dents
Bernard
3.5
1966
Line of Demarcation
Doctor Jacques Lafaye
6.1
1966
The Sultans
Léo
4.3
1966
An Affair of States
Ballard
0.0
1966
The Sleeping Car Murder
Le vétérinaire titulaire, chargé de cours (uncredited)
7.0
1965
Les Saintes Chéries
Pierre Lagarde · (39 episodes)
6.0
1965
Uncertain Verification
(archive footage)
6.6
1965
The Hour of Truth
Davod
5.2
1965
The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
Gunther Smith
6.1
1965
Les murs
François Bonjean
0.0
1964
Cherchez l'idole
Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)
6.2
1964
How to Make a French Dish
Raymond
4.5
1964
Three Girls in Paris
Raymond
5.0
1963
Portuguese Vacation
Daniel
5.6
1963
Règlements de compte
2.0
1963
Hitch-Hike
le comédien qui répète "Cyrano"
5.5
1962
Réveille-toi, chérie
Masure
0.0
1961
In the Mouth of the Wolf
Un drogué
8.0
1961
The Season for Love
Jacques Saint-Ford
5.2
1961
Shadows of Adultery
Eric Kraemmer
6.1
1961
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Lieutenant Miguel Villard
0.0
1960
Testament of Orpheus
The Intern (uncredited)
7.7
1960
Carthage in Flames
Phegor
5.1
1960
Julie la rousse
Édouard Lavigne / Jean Lavigne
1.0
1959
This Desired Body
Guillaume Féraud
6.0
1959
Follow Me Young Man
Michel Corbier
5.0
1958
Port of Desire
Pierre
3.5
1958
Three Days to Live
Simon Belin
5.4
1958
Too Many Lovers
Alain Cartier
5.6
1957
There's Always a Price Tag
Robert Montillon
6.3
1957
Mort en fraude
Paul Horcier
5.6
1957
I'll Get Back to Kandara
Bernard Cormière
0.0
1956
Good Evening Paris
Georges Bernier / Self
0.0
1956
Plucking the Daisy
Daniel Roy
6.1
1956
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Louis Bernard
7.5
1956
Cinépanorama
Self · (1 episode)
8.0
1956
Maid in Paris
Antoine du Merlet
0.0
1956
Napoleon
Napoléon Bonaparte
6.3
1955
Lovers' Net
Pierre Roubier
4.7
1955
The Cheerful Squadron
Il soldato Frédéric d'Héricourt
5.7
1954
Woman of Rome
Mino
6.2
1954
On Trial
Léonard Maurizius
6.8
1954
Love in a Hot Climate
Ricardo Garcia
0.0
1954
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
Narrator (voice)
0.0
1954
Reflets de Cannes
Self · (2 episodes)
2.0
1954
Public Opinion
0.0
1954
Stain on the Snow
Frank Friedmayer
5.4
1954
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Jean Collinet
6.8
1954
The Slave
Michel Landa
5.5
1953
Rue de l'Estrapade
Robert
5.2
1953
Voice of Silence
L'ancien prisonnier
6.4
1953
Les Dents longues
Louis Commandeur
5.4
1953
The Moment of Truth
Daniel Prevost
6.0
1952
Torticola versus Frankensberg
The Man who sleeps in a Coffin
4.0
1952
Le Plaisir
Jean
7.6
1952
Venom and Eternity
Self
6.7
1952
Adorable Creatures
André Noblet
5.2
1952
Young Love
Jean Bompart
6.3
1951
Dirty Hands
Hugo
4.9
1951
Chicago Digest
Coffino
0.0
1951
Edward and Caroline
Edouard Mortier
6.4
1951
La légende cruelle
Narrator (voice)
0.0
1951
God Needs Men
Joseph Le Berre
6.2
1950
La Ronde
Alfred, le jeune homme
7.3
1950
Rendezvous in July
Lucien Bonnard
5.7
1949
The Hell of Lost Pilots
Lieutenant Villeneuve
0.0
1949
The Murdered Model
Léopold
4.0
1948
The Woman in Red
Saladin
0.0
1947
Mirror
Charles
6.3
1947
La Nuit de Sybille
Stany
0.0
1947
Martin Roumagnac
Le surveillant du collège
6.6
1946
A Friend Will Come Tonight
Pierre Ribault
5.5
1946
The Temptation of Barbizon
Michel
5.7
1946
Les Cadets de l'océan
Philippe Demantes
5.0
1945
L'Enquête du 58
9.0
1945
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
(uncredited)
6.1
1944
Lucrèce
College student
4.0
1943
Soyez les bienvenus
0.0
1942
Strangers in the House
(uncredited)
7.0
1942
Her First Affair
Chauveau-Laplace (uncredited)
6.5
1941
Radio Surprises
Extra (uncredited)
5.0
1940
Miquette
0.0
1940