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