Daniel Gélin
Acting • Born 1921-05-19 – Died 2002-11-29
Biography
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.
Filmography
164 credits
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Movie • 1956
Louis Bernard
Trop c'est trop
Movie • 1975
Flic
Season of Peace in Paris
Movie • 1981
Life Is a Long Quiet River
Movie • 1988
Docteur Mavial
The Sleeping Car Murders
Movie • 1965
Le vétérinaire titulaire, chargé de cours (uncredited)
Is Paris Burning?
Movie • 1966
Yves Bayet
Port of Desire
Movie • 1958
Pierre
Mister Frost
Movie • 1990
Simon Scolari
We Will All Meet in Paradise
Movie • 1977
Bastien, stage director
That Night of Varennes
Movie • 1982
De Wendel
Murmur of the Heart
Movie • 1971
Charles Chevalier
Testament of Orpheus
Movie • 1960
The Intern (uncredited)
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Movie • 1994
Mr. Mireille, the 2nd projectionist
Napoleon
Movie • 1955
Napoléon Bonaparte
Le Plaisir
Movie • 1952
Jean
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
Movie • 1988
Pierre Duvivier, Albert's father
No Pockets in a Shroud
Movie • 1974
Laurence
Young Love
Movie • 1951
Jean Bompart
Plucking the Daisy
Movie • 1956
Daniel Roy
Les Dents longues
Movie • 1953
Louis Commandeur
The Suspended Vocation
Movie • 1978
Malagrida
La Ronde
Movie • 1950
Alfred, le jeune homme
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Movie • 1991
Roland Grumaud
The Moment of Truth
Movie • 1952
Daniel Prévost
Line of Demarcation
Movie • 1966
Doctor Jacques Lafaye
Strangers in the House
Movie • 1942
(uncredited)
Soyez les bienvenus
Movie • 1942
Her First Affair
Movie • 1941
Chauveau-Laplace (uncredited)
Radio Surprises
Movie • 1940
Extra (uncredited)
On Trial
Movie • 1954
Léonard Maurizius
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
Movie • 1944
(uncredited)
Woman of Rome
Movie • 1954
Mino
La Nuit de Sybille
Movie • 1947
Stany
The Woman in Red
Movie • 1947
Saladin
Men, Women: A User's Manual
Movie • 1996
le veuf
The Hell of Lost Pilots
Movie • 1949
Lieutenant Villeneuve
The Children
Movie • 1985
Enrico
Venom and Eternity
Movie • 1952
Self
Hitch-Hike
Movie • 1962
le comédien qui répète "Cyrano"
Martin Roumagnac
Movie • 1946
Le surveillant du collège
Three Days to Live
Movie • 1958
Simon Belin
Rendezvous in July
Movie • 1949
Lucien Bonnard
Obsession
Movie • 1997
Xavier Favre
Warrior Spirit
Movie • 1994
John Ball
Lovers' Net
Movie • 1955
Pierre Roubier
Black Sun
Movie • 1966
Guy Rodier
Uncertain Verification
Movie • 1965
(archive footage)
Mirror
Movie • 1947
Charles
Killing Cars
Movie • 1986
Kellermann
L'Enquête du 58
Movie • 1945
The Sultans
Movie • 1966
Léo
Dandin
Movie • 1988
Monsieur de Sotenville
Coup de jeune
Movie • 1993
Gaudeamus at 70
Roulez jeunesse !
Movie • 1993
Jean Moulinier
The summer of all sorrows
Movie • 1989
papy
Carthage in Flames
Movie • 1960
Phegor
Shadows of Adultery
Movie • 1961
Eric Kraemmer
Edward and Caroline
Movie • 1951
Edouard Mortier
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
Movie • 1979
Don Gomez
Dirty Hands
Movie • 1951
Hugo
Rue de l'estrapade
Movie • 1953
Robert
A Friend Will Come Tonight
Movie • 1946
Pierre Ribault
Les Bidochon
Movie • 1996
Le père Bidochon
Signé Furax
Movie • 1981
Broutechoux
Ghost with Driver
Movie • 1996
Le passeur (Le guide céleste)
Witness Out of Hell
Movie • 1967
Bora Petrović
The Police Serve the Citizens?
Movie • 1973
Brera
Swedish Fly Girls
Movie • 1971
André
There's Always a Price Tag
Movie • 1957
Robert Montillon
Adorable Creatures
Movie • 1952
André Noblet
Love in a Hot Climate
Movie • 1954
Ricardo Garcia
This Desired Body
Movie • 1959
Guillaume Féraud
À belles dents
Movie • 1966
Bernard
Une femme d'action
Movie • 1997
Charles
An Affair of States
Movie • 1966
Ballard
Too Many Lovers
Movie • 1957
Alain Cartier
Schwüle Tage
Movie • 1978
Vater
Guy de Maupassant
Movie • 1982
Gustave
Three Girls in Paris
Movie • 1963
Raymond
Far from Dallas
Movie • 1972
Jean
Blitz
Movie • 1985
Kellerman
Public Opinion
Movie • 1954
Paolo Jaier
Slogan
Movie • 1969
Evelyne's father
Lucrèce
Movie • 1943
College student
Règlements de compte
Movie • 1963
Nicky
The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
Movie • 1965
Gunther Smith
La Jalousie
Movie • 1976
Albert Blondel
Pétition
Movie • 1987
Stanek
Voice of Silence
Movie • 1953
L'ancien prisonnier
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Movie • 1953
Jean Collinet
Torticola versus Frankensberg
Movie • 1952
The Man who sleeps in a Coffin
Mauvaise fille
Movie • 1991
Fernand
Ariane
Movie • 1974
The comedian
Sadistic Hallucinations
Movie • 1969
Charles
The Temptation of Barbizon
Movie • 1946
Michel
The Hour of Truth
Movie • 1965
Davod
Les Cadets de l'océan
Movie • 1945
Philippe Demantes
Follow Me Young Man
Movie • 1958
Michel Corbier
God Needs Men
Movie • 1950
Joseph Le Berre
Dialogues of the Exiles
Movie • 1975
Public Security
Movie • 1987
Martino Morando
Via Montenapoleone
Movie • 1987
padre di Elena
The Truce
Movie • 1968
Arno
De force avec d'autres
Movie • 1993
L'autre lui-même
The Cheerful Squadron
Movie • 1954
Frédéric d'Héricourt
Mort en fraude
Movie • 1957
Paul Horcier
I'll Get Back to Kandara
Movie • 1956
Bernard Cormière
Julie la rousse
Movie • 1959
Édouard Lavigne / Jean Lavigne
The Season for Love
Movie • 1961
Jacques Saint-Ford
Pushing the Limits
Movie • 1994
Le père de Fiona
How to Make a French Dish
Movie • 1964
Raymond
Runaways
Movie • 1995
Bruno
Miquette
Movie • 1940
Réveille-toi, chérie
Movie • 1961
Masure
Stain on the Snow
Movie • 1954
Frank Friedmayer
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir"
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "La Ronde"
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
In the Mouth of the Wolf
Movie • 1961
Un drogué
À l'abri des regards indiscrets
Movie • 2002
Abdel-Robert
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
Movie • 1990
Self
The Murdered Model
Movie • 1948
Léopold
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie • 1987
Self (archive footage)
Good Evening Paris
Movie • 1956
Georges Bernier / Self
The Slave
Movie • 1953
Michel Landa
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Movie • 1960
Lieutenant Miguel Villard
Destroy, She Said
Movie • 1969
Bernard Alione
La légende cruelle
Movie • 1951
Narrator (voice)
The Servant
Movie • 1970
Dr. Robert Marbois
The Most Beautiful Month
Movie • 1968
Le capitaine
Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue
Movie • 1973
Dupin
Cherchez l'idole
Movie • 1964
Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)
Maid in Paris
Movie • 1956
Antoine du Merlet
Portuguese Vacation
Movie • 1963
Daniel
Un enfant dans la ville
Movie • 1971
Gustave, the bartender
Promotion canapé
Movie • 1990
Le responsable des inspecteurs de la Justice
Poorly Extinguished Fires
Movie • 1994
The gentleman from the beach
La Discorde
Movie • 1978
Bernard
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
Movie • 1954
Narrator (voice)
Chicago Digest
Movie • 1951
Coffino
Les murs
Movie • 1964
François Bonjean
Un delitto
Movie • 1984
Judge Freshville
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
Movie • 1977
Self
Un type bien
Movie • 1991
Docteur Avril
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Movie • 2022
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Arsène Lupin
TV • 1971
Daubrecq
Midi Première
TV • 1975
Self
The Legacy of Guldenburgs
TV • 1987
Gregor Baschkurin
Le Tiroir secret
TV • 1986
Jean-Pierre Jolivet
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self
Marc et Sophie
TV • 1987
Edmond, le beau-père
Numéro un
TV • 1975
Self
Système 2
TV • 1975
Self
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self
Les Saintes Chéries
TV • 1965
Pierre Lagarde
Les Nuls, l'émission
TV • 1990
Self - Guest
Tarendol
TV • 1980
Bazalo
Der große Preis
TV • 1974
Self
Reflets de Cannes
TV • 1954
Self
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self
Olga e i suoi figli
TV • 1985
Il primario
Maigret
TV • 1991
Le père Nicolas
Iran: Days of Crisis
TV • 1991
Shah