
Daniel Gélin
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.
164 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 164

Sacrée soirée
1987

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975

Midi Première
1975

Le Grand Échiquier
1972

Numéro un
1975

Cinépanorama
1956

Maigret
1991
Système 2
1975
Der große Preis
1974

Reflets de Cannes
1954

Arsène Lupin
1971

Marc et Sophie
1987

The Legacy of Guldenburgs
1987

Les Nuls, l'émission
1990

The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956

Murmur of the Heart
1971

Is Paris Burning?
1966

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994

Napoleon
1955

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987

Le Tiroir secret
1986
Iran: Days of Crisis
1991

Obsession
1997

Royal Affairs in Versailles
1953

Mister Frost
1990

That Night of Varennes
1982

Les Saintes Chéries
1965

Tarendol
1980

Ghost with Driver
1996

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
1991

The Sleeping Car Murders
1965

Plucking the Daisy
1956

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
1988

La Ronde
1950

Le Plaisir
1952

Testament of Orpheus
1960

Men, Women: A User's Manual
1996

Slogan
1969

Line of Demarcation
1966

Portuguese Vacation
1963

Life Is a Long Quiet River
1988

Uncertain Verification
1965

Signé Furax
1981

Swedish Fly Girls
1971

Strangers in the House
1942

Dialogues of the Exiles
1975

Carthage in Flames
1960

Via Montenapoleone
1987

Woman of Rome
1954

Season of Peace in Paris
1981

No Pockets in a Shroud
1974

The Sultans
1966

Killing Cars
1986

The Police Serve the Citizens?
1973

The Cheerful Squadron
1954

Adorable Creatures
1952

Her First Affair
1941

The Season for Love
1961

Three Days to Live
1958

Rendezvous in July
1949

Trop c'est trop
1975

Too Many Lovers
1957

Roulez jeunesse !
1993

Voice of Silence
1953

Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
1977

Edward and Caroline
1951

We Will All Meet in Paradise
1977

Les Bidochon
1996
De force avec d'autres
1993

There's Always a Price Tag
1957

Promotion canapé
1990

The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
1944

Destroy, She Said
1969

The Moment of Truth
1952

The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
1965

Cherchez l'idole
1964

Rue de l'estrapade
1953

Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022

How to Make a French Dish
1964

À l'abri des regards indiscrets
2002

Hitch-Hike
1962

Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
1990

Venom and Eternity
1952

Dandin
1988

Shadows of Adultery
1961

Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
1979
Torticola versus Frankensberg
1952

I'll Get Back to Kandara
1956

The Servant
1970
Lucrèce
1943

The Children
1985

Lovers' Net
1955

An Affair of States
1966

La Nuit de Sybille
1947
Olga e i suoi figli
1985

Règlements de compte
1963

Black Sun
1966

The Temptation of Barbizon
1946

Stain on the Snow
1954

A Friend Will Come Tonight
1946

The Slave
1953

Guy de Maupassant
1982

Les Dents longues
1953

Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
1960

Three Girls in Paris
1963
Warrior Spirit
1994

Chicago Digest
1951

Runaways
1995

Poorly Extinguished Fires
1994

In the Mouth of the Wolf
1961

Pushing the Limits
1994

À belles dents
1966

On Trial
1954
Un enfant dans la ville
1971

Mirror
1947

Julie la rousse
1959

Miquette
1940

Witness Out of Hell
1967

Good Evening Paris
1956
Blitz
1985

The Suspended Vocation
1978

Public Opinion
1954

Radio Surprises
1940

Martin Roumagnac
1946

The Hour of Truth
1965

La Jalousie
1976

The Most Beautiful Month
1968

Les Cadets de l'océan
1945

Mort en fraude
1957

Public Security
1987

Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
1954

The Murdered Model
1948

L'Enquête du 58
1945

Love in a Hot Climate
1954

Dirty Hands
1951

Far from Dallas
1972

God Needs Men
1950

Une femme d'action
1997
Un delitto
1984

Young Love
1951

Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
2009

Coup de jeune
1993

Mauvaise fille
1991

Port of Desire
1958

This Desired Body
1959

Réveille-toi, chérie
1961

The Truce
1968

Soyez les bienvenus
1942

Ariane
1974

Follow Me Young Man
1958

The Hell of Lost Pilots
1949
Pétition
1987
Schwüle Tage
1978
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir"
2008

Sadistic Hallucinations
1969

The summer of all sorrows
1989

The Woman in Red
1947

Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue
1973

La Discorde
1978

Maid in Paris
1956

Un type bien
1991

Les murs
1964
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "La Ronde"
2008

La légende cruelle
1951