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. Source: Article "Daniel Gélin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For: Acting

Born: Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France, 1921-05-19

Died: 2002-11-29

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1940	Miquette		0
2	1940	Radio Surprises	Extra (uncredited)	50
3	1941	Her First Affair	Chauveau-Laplace (uncredited)	65
4	1942	Strangers in the House	(uncredited)	70
5	1942	Soyez les bienvenus		0
6	1943	Lucrèce	College student	40
7	1944	The Little Ones of the Flower Platform	(uncredited)	61
8	1945	L'Enquête du 58		90
9	1945	Les Cadets de l'océan	Philippe Demantes	50
10	1946	The Temptation of Barbizon	Michel	57
11	1946	A Friend Will Come Tonight	Pierre Ribault	55
12	1946	Martin Roumagnac	Le surveillant du collège	66
13	1947	La Nuit de Sybille	Stany	0
14	1947	Mirror	Charles	63
15	1947	The Woman in Red	Saladin	0
16	1948	The Murdered Model	Léopold	40
17	1949	The Hell of Lost Pilots	Lieutenant Villeneuve	0
18	1949	Rendezvous in July	Lucien Bonnard	57
19	1950	La Ronde	Alfred, le jeune homme	73
20	1950	God Needs Men	Joseph Le Berre	62
21	1951	La légende cruelle	Narrator (voice)	0
22	1951	Edward and Caroline	Edouard Mortier	64
23	1951	The Moment of Truth	Daniel Prévost	61
24	1951	Chicago Digest	Coffino	0
25	1951	Dirty Hands	Hugo	49
26	1951	Young Love	Jean Bompart	63
27	1952	Adorable Creatures	André Noblet	52
28	1952	Venom and Eternity	Self	67
29	1952	Le Plaisir	Jean	76
30	1952	Torticola versus Frankensberg	The Man who sleeps in a Coffin	40
31	1953	Les Dents longues	Louis Commandeur	54
32	1953	Voice of Silence	L'ancien prisonnier	64
33	1953	Rue de l'estrapade	Robert	52
34	1953	The Slave	Michel Landa	55
35	1954	Royal Affairs in Versailles	Jean Collinet	68
36	1954	Stain on the Snow	Frank Friedmayer	61
37	1954	Public Opinion		0
38	1954	Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances	Narrator (voice)	0
39	1954	Love in a Hot Climate	Ricardo Garcia	0
40	1954	On Trial	Léonard Maurizius	68
41	1954	Woman of Rome	Mino	62
42	1954	The Cheerful Squadron	Il soldato Frédéric d'Héricourt	57
43	1955	Lovers' Net	Pierre Roubier	47
44	1955	Napoleon	Napoléon Bonaparte	66
45	1956	Maid in Paris	Antoine du Merlet	0
46	1956	The Man Who Knew Too Much	Louis Bernard	75
47	1956	Plucking the Daisy	Daniel Roy	61
48	1956	Good Evening Paris	Georges Bernier / Self	0
49	1956	I'll Get Back to Kandara	Bernard Cormière	0
50	1957	Mort en fraude	Paul Horcier	56
51	1957	There's Always a Price Tag	Robert Montillon	63
52	1957	Too Many Lovers	Alain Cartier	56
53	1958	Three Days to Live	Simon Belin	54
54	1958	Port of Desire	Pierre	35
55	1958	Follow Me Young Man	Michel Corbier	50
56	1959	This Desired Body	Guillaume Féraud	60
57	1959	Julie la rousse	Édouard Lavigne / Jean Lavigne	10
58	1960	Carthage in Flames	Phegor	51
59	1960	Testament of Orpheus	The Intern (uncredited)	77
60	1960	Three Etc.'s and the Colonel	Lieutenant Miguel Villard	0
61	1961	Shadows of Adultery	Eric Kraemmer	61
62	1961	The Season for Love	Jacques Saint-Ford	52
63	1961	In the Mouth of the Wolf	Un drogué	75
64	1961	Réveille-toi, chérie	Masure	0
65	1962	Hitch-Hike	le comédien qui répète "Cyrano"	55
66	1963	Règlements de compte		20
67	1963	Portuguese Vacation	Daniel	56
68	1963	Three Girls in Paris	Raymond	50
69	1964	How to Make a French Dish	Raymond	45
70	1964	Cherchez l'idole	Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)	62
71	1964	Les murs	François Bonjean	0
72	1965	The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall	Gunther Smith	61
73	1965	The Hour of Truth	Davod	52
74	1965	Uncertain Verification	(archive footage)	66
75	1965	The Sleeping Car Murder	Le vétérinaire titulaire, chargé de cours (uncredited)	70
76	1966	An Affair of States	Ballard	0
77	1966	The Sultans	Léo	43
78	1966	Line of Demarcation	Doctor Jacques Lafaye	62
79	1966	À belles dents	Bernard	35
80	1966	Is Paris Burning?	Yves Bayet	72
81	1966	Black Sun	Guy Rodier	40
82	1967	Witness Out of Hell	Bora Petrović	67
83	1968	The Truce	Arno	0
84	1968	The Most Beautiful Month	Le capitaine	40
85	1969	Slogan	Le père d'Evelyne	58
86	1969	Sadistic Hallucinations	Charles	27
87	1969	Destroy, She Said	Bernard Alione	68
88	1970	The Servant	Dr. Robert Marbois	60
89	1971	Murmur of the Heart	Charles Chevalier	70
90	1971	Swedish Fly Girls	André	52
91	1971	Un enfant dans la ville	Gustave, the bartender	0
92	1972	Far from Dallas	Jean	60
93	1973	Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue	Dupin	70
94	1973	The Police Serve the Citizens?	Brera	66
95	1974	No Pockets in a Shroud	Laurence	54
96	1974	Ariane	The comedian	0
97	1975	Dialogues of the Exiles		66
98	1975	Trop c'est trop	Flic	57
99	1976	La jalousie	Albert Blondel	0
100	1977	Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante	Self	55
101	1977	We Will All Meet in Paradise	Bastien, stage director	68
102	1978	La Discorde	Bernard	0
103	1978	The Suspended Vocation	Malagrida	60
104	1978	Schwüle Tage	Vater	0
105	1979	Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !	Don Gomez	20
106	1981	Signé Furax	Broutechoux	48
107	1981	Season of Peace in Paris		51
108	1982	Guy de Maupassant	Gustave	50
109	1982	The Night of Varennes	De Wendel	69
110	1984	Un delitto		0
111	1985	The Children	Enrico	59
112	1985	Blitz		20
113	1986	Killing Cars	Kellermann	32
114	1987	Pétition	Stanek	0
115	1987	Via Montenapoleone	padre di Elena	36
116	1987	Public Security	Martino Morando	0
117	1988	Dandin	Monsieur de Sotenville	44
118	1988	Life Is a Long Quiet River	Docteur Mavial	67
119	1988	James Stewart: A Wonderful Life	Self (archive footage)	60
120	1988	Itinerary of a Spoiled Child	Pierre Duvivier, Albert's father	73
121	1989	The summer of all sorrows	papy	0
122	1990	Mister Frost	Simon Scolari	61
123	1990	Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren	Self	0
124	1990	Promotion canapé	Le responsable des inspecteurs de la Justice	51
125	1991	Mauvaise fille	Fernand	20
126	1991	The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck	Roland Grumaud	53
127	1991	Iran: Days of Crisis	Shah	35
128	1993	Coup de jeune	Gaudeamus at 70	50
129	1993	De force avec d'autres	L'autre lui-même	50
130	1993	Roulez jeunesse !	Jean Moulinier	55
131	1994	Warrior Spirit	John Ball	50
132	1994	Poorly Extinguished Fires	The gentleman from the beach	0
133	1994	Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy	Mr. Mireille, the 2nd projectionist	75
134	1994	Pushing the Limits	Le père de Fiona	0
135	1995	Runaways	Bruno	58
136	1996	Ghost with Driver	Le passeur (Le guide céleste)	50
137	1996	Les Bidochon	Le père Bidochon	32
138	1996	Men, Women: A User's Manual	le veuf	61
139	1997	Obsession	Xavier Favre	40
140	1997	Une femme d'action	Charles	0
141	2002	À l'abri des regards indiscrets	Abdel-Robert	55
142	2008	Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "La Ronde"	Self (archive footage)	0
143	2008	Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir"	Self (archive footage)	0
144	2009	Max par Marcel: Lola Montès	Self (archive footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1954	Reflets de Cannes	Self	20
2	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
3	1965	Les Saintes Chéries	Pierre Lagarde	60
4	1971	Arsène Lupin	Daubrecq	77
5	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
6	1974	Der große Preis	Self	60
7	1975	Midi Première	Self	100
8	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
9	1975	Système 2	Self	0
10	1975	Numéro un	Self	60
11	1980	Tarendol	Bazalo	20
12	1986	Le Tiroir secret	Jean-Pierre Jolivet	35
13	1987	The Legacy of Guldenburgs	Gregor Baschkurin	44
14	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
15	1987	Marc et Sophie	Edmond, le beau-père	53
16	1990	Les Nuls, l'émission	Self - Guest	83

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