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.
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Cast
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Louis Bernard
Season of Peace in Paris
Unknown
Life Is a Long Quiet River
Docteur Mavial
The Sleeping Car Murder
Le vétérinaire titulaire, chargé de cours (uncredited)
Is Paris Burning?
Yves Bayet
Mister Frost
Simon Scolari
We Will All Meet in Paradise
Bastien, stage director
The Night of Varennes
De Wendel
Murmur of the Heart
Charles Chevalier
Testament of Orpheus
The Intern (uncredited)
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Mr. Mireille, the 2nd projectionist
Napoleon
Napoléon Bonaparte
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
Pierre Duvivier, Albert's father
No Pockets in a Shroud
Laurence
Plucking the Daisy
Daniel Roy
Les Dents longues
Louis Commandeur
The Suspended Vocation
Malagrida
La Ronde
Alfred, le jeune homme
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Roland Grumaud
The Moment of Truth
Daniel Prévost
Line of Demarcation
Doctor Jacques Lafaye
Strangers in the House
(uncredited)
Soyez les bienvenus
Unknown
Her First Affair
Chauveau-Laplace (uncredited)
Radio Surprises
Extra (uncredited)
On Trial
Léonard Maurizius
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
(uncredited)
Men, Women: A User's Manual
le veuf
The Hell of Lost Pilots
Lieutenant Villeneuve
Hitch-Hike
le comédien qui répète "Cyrano"
Martin Roumagnac
Le surveillant du collège
Three Days to Live
Simon Belin
Rendezvous in July
Lucien Bonnard
Lovers' Net
Pierre Roubier
Uncertain Verification
(archive footage)
Dandin
Monsieur de Sotenville
Coup de jeune
Gaudeamus at 70
Roulez jeunesse !
Jean Moulinier
The summer of all sorrows
papy
Shadows of Adultery
Eric Kraemmer
Edward and Caroline
Edouard Mortier
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
Don Gomez
A Friend Will Come Tonight
Pierre Ribault
Les Bidochon
Le père Bidochon
Ghost with Driver
Le passeur (Le guide céleste)
Witness Out of Hell
Bora Petrović
The Police Serve the Citizens?
Brera
There's Always a Price Tag
Robert Montillon
Adorable Creatures
André Noblet
Love in a Hot Climate
Ricardo Garcia
This Desired Body
Guillaume Féraud
Une femme d'action
Charles
An Affair of States
Ballard
Too Many Lovers
Alain Cartier
Three Girls in Paris
Raymond
Public Opinion
Paolo Jaier
Règlements de compte
Nicky
The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
Gunther Smith
La jalousie
Albert Blondel
Voice of Silence
L'ancien prisonnier
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Jean Collinet
Torticola versus Frankensberg
The Man who sleeps in a Coffin
Sadistic Hallucinations
Charles
The Temptation of Barbizon
Michel
Les Cadets de l'océan
Philippe Demantes
Follow Me Young Man
Michel Corbier
God Needs Men
Joseph Le Berre
Dialogues of the Exiles
Unknown
Public Security
Martino Morando
Via Montenapoleone
padre di Elena
De force avec d'autres
L'autre lui-même
The Cheerful Squadron
Frédéric d'Héricourt
Mort en fraude
Paul Horcier
I'll Get Back to Kandara
Bernard Cormière
Julie la rousse
Édouard Lavigne / Jean Lavigne
The Season for Love
Jacques Saint-Ford
Pushing the Limits
Le père de Fiona
How to Make a French Dish
Raymond
Réveille-toi, chérie
Masure
Stain on the Snow
Frank Friedmayer
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "La Ronde"
Self (archive footage)
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir"
Self (archive footage)
In the Mouth of the Wolf
Un drogué
À l'abri des regards indiscrets
Abdel-Robert
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
Self
The Murdered Model
Léopold
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
Good Evening Paris
Georges Bernier / Self
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Lieutenant Miguel Villard
Destroy, She Said
Bernard Alione
La légende cruelle
Narrator (voice)
The Servant
Dr. Robert Marbois
The Most Beautiful Month
Le capitaine
Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
Self (archive footage)
Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue
Dupin
Cherchez l'idole
Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)
Maid in Paris
Antoine du Merlet
Portuguese Vacation
Daniel
Un enfant dans la ville
Gustave, the bartender
Promotion canapé
Le responsable des inspecteurs de la Justice
Poorly Extinguished Fires
The gentleman from the beach
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
Narrator (voice)
Un delitto
Judge Freshville
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
Self
Un type bien
Docteur Avril
