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