Daniel Gélin
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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
Credits
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
as Louis Bernard
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
as Yves Bayet
Murmur of the Heart (1971)
as Charles Chevalier
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy (1994)
as Mr. Mireille, the 2nd projectionist
Testament of Orpheus (1960)
as L'interne (non crédité)
That Night of Varennes (1982)
as De Wendel
Napoleon (1955)
as Napoléon Bonaparte
Le Plaisir (1952)
as Jean
Line of Demarcation (1966)
as Doctor Jacques Lafaye
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1953)
as Jean Collinet
Men, Women: A User's Manual (1996)
as le veuf
Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988)
as Docteur Mavial
Signé Furax (1981)
as Broutechoux
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988)
as Pierre Duvivier, Albert's father
We Will All Meet in Paradise (1977)
as Bastien, stage director
Plucking the Daisy (1956)
as Daniel Roy
Three Girls in Paris (1963)
as Raymond
Slogan (1969)
as Evelyne's father
Rendezvous in July (1949)
as Lucien Bonnard
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987)
as Self (archive footage)
Belmondo: The Incorrigible (2022)
Actor
Good Evening Paris (1956)
as Georges Bernier / Self
Chicago Digest (1951)
as Coffino
La Ronde (1950)
as Alfred, le jeune homme
Lovers' Net (1955)
as Pierre Roubier
Mr. Frost (1990)
as Simon Scolari
Three Days to Live (1958)
as Simon Belin
The Temptation of Barbizon (1946)
as Michel
The Moment of Truth (1952)
as Daniel Prévost
The Slave (1953)
as Michel Landa
No Pockets in a Shroud (1974)
as Laurence
Les Cadets de l'océan (1945)
as Philippe Demantes
Trop c'est trop (1975)
as Flic
La Discorde (1978)
as Bernard
Roulez jeunesse ! (1993)
as Jean Moulinier
The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall (1965)
as Gunther Smith
Dandin (1988)
as Monsieur de Sotenville
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck (1991)
as Roland Grumaud
Killing Cars (1986)
as Kellermann
La Jalousie (1976)
as Albert Blondel
The Hell of Lost Pilots (1949)
as Lieutenant Villeneuve
Port of Desire (1958)
as Pierre
An Affair of States (1966)
as Ballard
Blitz (1985)
as Kellerman
Les Dents longues (1953)
as Louis Commandeur
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances (1954)
as Narrator (voice)
The Sleeping Car Murders (1965)
as Le vétérinaire titulaire, chargé de cours (uncredited)
Strangers in the House (1942)
as (uncredited)
Stain on the Snow (1953)
as Frank Friedmayer
Witness Out of Hell (1967)
as Bora Petrović
Mauvaise fille (1991)
as Fernand
This Desired Body (1959)
as Guillaume Féraud
Schwüle Tage (1978)
as Vater
Voice of Silence (1953)
as Francesco Ferro
Young Love (1951)
as Jean Bompart
The Suspended Vocation (1978)
as Malagrida
Woman of Rome (1954)
as Mino
The Season for Love (1961)
as Jacques Saint-Ford
The Cheerful Squadron (1954)
as Frédéric d'Héricourt
The Most Beautiful Month (1968)
as Le capitaine
La Nuit de Sybille (1947)
as Stany
Une femme d'action (1997)
as Charles
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform (1944)
as (uncredited)
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante (1977)
as Self
Poorly Extinguished Fires (1994)
as The gentleman from the beach
Guy de Maupassant (1982)
as Gustave
The Police Serve the Citizens? (1973)
as Brera
Lucrèce (1943)
as College student
Hitch-Hike (1962)
as le comédien qui répète "Cyrano"
On Trial (1954)
as Léonard Maurizius
A Friend Will Come Tonight (1946)
as Pierre Ribault
There's Always a Price Tag (1957)
as Robert Montillon
How to Make a French Dish (1964)
as Raymond
Rue de l'estrapade (1953)
as Robert
Carthage in Flames (1960)
as Phegor
The Sultans (1966)
as Léo
The Woman in Red (1947)
as Saladin
Mirror (1947)
as Charles
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren (1990)
as Self
À belles dents (1966)
as Bernard
The Hour of Truth (1965)
as Davod
I'll Get Back to Kandara (1956)
as Bernard Cormière
Cherchez l'idole (1964)
as Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)
Un enfant dans la ville (1971)
as Gustave, the bartender
Shadows of Adultery (1961)
as Eric Kraemmer
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise ! (1979)
as Don Gomez
Obsession (1997)
as Xavier Favre
In the Mouth of the Wolf (1961)
as Un drogué
God Needs Men (1950)
as Joseph Le Berre
Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue (1973)
as Dupin
Swedish Fly Girls (1971)
as André
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel (1960)
as Lieutenant Miguel Villard
Edward and Caroline (1951)
as Edouard Mortier
Black Sun (1966)
as Guy Rodier
À l'abri des regards indiscrets (2002)
as Abdel-Robert
L'Enquête du 58 (1945)
Actor
Sadistic Hallucinations (1969)
as Charles
Max par Marcel: Lola Montès (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
Venom and Eternity (1952)
as Self
Portuguese Vacation (1963)
as Daniel
Promotion canapé (1990)
as Le responsable des inspecteurs de la Justice
Public Opinion (1954)
as Paolo Jaier
De force avec d'autres (1993)
as L'autre lui-même
Mort en fraude (1957)
as Paul Horcier
Julie la rousse (1959)
as Édouard Lavigne / Jean Lavigne
Réveille-toi, chérie (1961)
as Masure
Far from Dallas (1972)
as Jean
Les Bidochon (1996)
as Le père Bidochon
Martin Roumagnac (1946)
as Le surveillant du collège
Via Montenapoleone (1987)
as padre di Elena
Ghost with Driver (1996)
as Le passeur (Le guide céleste)
Adorable Creatures (1952)
as André Noblet
Miquette (1940)
Actor
Radio Surprises (1940)
as Extra (uncredited)
Love in a Hot Climate (1954)
as Ricardo Garcia
Too Many Lovers (1957)
as Alain Cartier
Follow Me Young Man (1958)
as Michel Corbier
The Children (1985)
as Enrico
Maid in Paris (1956)
as Antoine du Merlet
The Murdered Model (1948)
as Léopold
Season of Peace in Paris (1981)
Actor
Her First Affair (1941)
as Chauveau-Laplace (uncredited)
The summer of all sorrows (1989)
as papy
Pushing the Limits (1994)
as Le père de Fiona
Dirty Hands (1951)
as Hugo
Uncertain Verification (1965)
as (archive footage)
La légende cruelle (1951)
as Narrator (voice)
Public Security (1987)
as Martino Morando
Runaways (1995)
as Bruno
Torticola versus Frankensberg (1952)
as The Man who sleeps in a Coffin
Coup de jeune (1993)
as Gaudeamus at 70
The Servant (1970)
as Dr. Robert Marbois
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir" (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
The Truce (1968)
as Arno
Un type bien (1991)
as Docteur Avril
Warrior Spirit (1994)
as John Ball
Destroy, She Said (1969)
as Bernard Alione
Dialogues of the Exiles (1975)
Actor
Règlements de compte (1963)
as Nicky
Ariane (1974)
as The comedian
Soyez les bienvenus (1942)
Actor
Les murs (1964)
as François Bonjean
Pétition (1987)
as Stanek
Un delitto (1984)
as Judge Freshville
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "La Ronde" (2008)
as Self (archive footage)