Daniel Gélin
Acting
Born: May 19, 1921 · Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Died: November 29, 2002 (aged 81)
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994
Life Is a Long Quiet River
1988
Is Paris Burning?
1966
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
1988
Murmur of the Heart
1971
We Will All Meet in Paradise
1977
La Ronde
1950
Le Plaisir
1952
Testament of Orpheus
1960
The Sleeping Car Murders
1965
That Night of Varennes
1982
Photos (5)
Movies (127)
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Louis Bernard
Murmur of the Heart
Charles Chevalier
Is Paris Burning?
Yves Bayet
Woman of Rome
Mino
Signé Furax
Broutechoux
Les Cadets de l'océan
Philippe Demantes
Testament of Orpheus
L'interne (non crédité)
Mr. Frost
Simon Scolari
Napoleon
Napoléon Bonaparte
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Mr. Mireille, the 2nd projectionist
Le Plaisir
Jean
That Night of Varennes
De Wendel
La Ronde
Alfred, le jeune homme
Miquette
1940
Mirror
Charles
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
Pierre Duvivier, Albert's father
Plucking the Daisy
Daniel Roy
Slogan
Evelyne's father
Men, Women: A User's Manual
le veuf
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Jean Collinet
Ghost with Driver
Le passeur (Le guide céleste)
The Servant
Dr. Robert Marbois
Carthage in Flames
Phegor
Dandin
Monsieur de Sotenville
Line of Demarcation
Doctor Jacques Lafaye
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
We Will All Meet in Paradise
Bastien, stage director
Roulez jeunesse !
Jean Moulinier
À belles dents
Bernard
The Truce
Arno
The Sleeping Car Murders
Le vétérinaire titulaire, chargé de cours (uncredited)
The Slave
Michel Landa
The Cheerful Squadron
Frédéric d'Héricourt
There's Always a Price Tag
Robert Montillon
Mauvaise fille
Fernand
Chicago Digest
Coffino
Life Is a Long Quiet River
Docteur Mavial
Rendezvous in July
Lucien Bonnard
La Jalousie
Albert Blondel
No Pockets in a Shroud
Laurence
Port of Desire
Pierre
The Sultans
Léo
Un type bien
Docteur Avril
Les Dents longues
Louis Commandeur
The Suspended Vocation
Malagrida
On Trial
Léonard Maurizius
Réveille-toi, chérie
Masure
The Moment of Truth
Daniel Prévost
Lovers' Net
Pierre Roubier
Via Montenapoleone
padre di Elena
Three Days to Live
Simon Belin
Martin Roumagnac
Le surveillant du collège
Obsession
Xavier Favre
Maid in Paris
Antoine du Merlet
Killing Cars
Kellermann
The Hour of Truth
Davod
Adorable Creatures
André Noblet
Voice of Silence
Francesco Ferro
La Discorde
Bernard
Trop c'est trop
Flic
Hitch-Hike
le comédien qui répète "Cyrano"
Sadistic Hallucinations
Charles
The Most Beautiful Month
Le capitaine
Promotion canapé
Le responsable des inspecteurs de la Justice
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Roland Grumaud
Mort en fraude
Paul Horcier
God Needs Men
Joseph Le Berre
The Woman in Red
Saladin
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
Narrator (voice)
Her First Affair
Chauveau-Laplace (uncredited)
An Affair of States
Ballard
How to Make a French Dish
Raymond
Edward and Caroline
Edouard Mortier
Stain on the Snow
Frank Friedmayer
The Murdered Model
Léopold
Strangers in the House
(uncredited)
Swedish Fly Girls
André
Guy de Maupassant
Gustave
Rue de l'estrapade
Robert
The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
Gunther Smith
Too Many Lovers
Alain Cartier
Far from Dallas
Jean
This Desired Body
Guillaume Féraud
Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue
Dupin
The Season for Love
Jacques Saint-Ford
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
(uncredited)
In the Mouth of the Wolf
Un drogué
The Police Serve the Citizens?
Brera
Coup de jeune
Gaudeamus at 70
Radio Surprises
Extra (uncredited)
Black Sun
Guy Rodier
La légende cruelle
Narrator (voice)
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
Don Gomez
Love in a Hot Climate
Ricardo Garcia
The Children
Enrico
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Lieutenant Miguel Villard
Règlements de compte
Nicky
Uncertain Verification
(archive footage)
Portuguese Vacation
Daniel
I'll Get Back to Kandara
Bernard Cormière
The Hell of Lost Pilots
Lieutenant Villeneuve
Destroy, She Said
Bernard Alione
Julie la rousse
Édouard Lavigne / Jean Lavigne
A Friend Will Come Tonight
Pierre Ribault
Poorly Extinguished Fires
The gentleman from the beach
Season of Peace in Paris
1981
À l'abri des regards indiscrets
Abdel-Robert
Witness Out of Hell
Bora Petrović
Three Girls in Paris
Raymond
Les Bidochon
Le père Bidochon
Dirty Hands
Hugo
Shadows of Adultery
Eric Kraemmer
Young Love
Jean Bompart
La Nuit de Sybille
Stany
Ariane
The comedian
The Temptation of Barbizon
Michel
Runaways
Bruno
Dialogues of the Exiles
1975
Une femme d'action
Charles
Public Opinion
Paolo Jaier
The summer of all sorrows
papy
Soyez les bienvenus
1942
L'Enquête du 58
1945
Public Security
Martino Morando
Pushing the Limits
Le père de Fiona
Follow Me Young Man
Michel Corbier
Les murs
François Bonjean
TV Shows (7)
Maigret
Le père Nicolas · 1 eps
Marc et Sophie
Edmond, le beau-père · 220 eps
Arsène Lupin
Daubrecq · 1 eps
The Legacy of Guldenburgs
Gregor Baschkurin · 1 eps
Les Saintes Chéries
Pierre Lagarde · 39 eps
Le Tiroir secret
Jean-Pierre Jolivet · 1 eps
Tarendol
Bazalo · 4 eps
Self / Appearances (17)
Ciné regards
Self · 1 eps
Sacrée soirée
Self · 4 eps
Midi Première
Self · 1 eps
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · 3 eps
Le Grand Échiquier
Self · 1 eps
Numéro un
Self · 2 eps
Cinépanorama
Self · 1 eps
Les Nuls, l'émission
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Reflets de Cannes
Self · 2 eps
Aujourd'hui la vie
Self · 4 eps
Good Evening Paris
Georges Bernier / Self
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
Cherchez l'idole
Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
Self
Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
Self (archive footage)
Venom and Eternity
Self
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
Self