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