Daniel Gélin

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

105

Movies

145

Born: May 19, 1921 – November 29, 2002
From: Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France

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.

Works

145 films

The Man Who Knew Too Much

19567.4

Murmur of the Heart

19717.0

Is Paris Burning?

19667.2

Napoleon

19556.3

Mr. Frost

19906.2

Les Cadets de l'océan

19456.0

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

19947.5

Signé Furax

19815.0

Testament of Orpheus

19607.6

That Night of Varennes

19826.9

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

20228.2

Lucrèce

19437.0

Royal Affairs in Versailles

19536.7

Line of Demarcation

19666.2

Le Plaisir

19527.5

Slogan

19695.7

The Woman in Red

194710.0

Mauvaise fille

19916.0

The Suspended Vocation

19786.6

Les Dents longues

19535.8

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

19876.5

La Ronde

19507.3

The Slave

19537.0

Roulez jeunesse !

19937.8

Schwüle Tage

19788.0

The Cheerful Squadron

19546.1

We Will All Meet in Paradise

19776.8

La Jalousie

19768.0

Men, Women: A User's Manual

19966.0

On Trial

19546.8

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child

19887.2

Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances

19547.0

Stain on the Snow

19536.3

Réveille-toi, chérie

1961

The Sleeping Car Murders

19656.9

Chicago Digest

19519.0

Life Is a Long Quiet River

19886.7

The Season for Love

19615.1

Plucking the Daisy

19566.3

Rendezvous in July

19496.1

Mirror

19477.1

Un type bien

19913.3

Dandin

19884.8

La légende cruelle

1951

Sadistic Hallucinations

19693.2

À belles dents

19665.3

Trop c'est trop

19756.3

Good Evening Paris

195610.0

Rue de l'estrapade

19535.6

There's Always a Price Tag

19576.6

La Discorde

19789.0

Portuguese Vacation

19635.8

Carthage in Flames

19605.2

Strangers in the House

19427.0

Adorable Creatures

19525.1

Woman of Rome

19546.1

The Most Beautiful Month

19686.0

The Murdered Model

19485.7

The Sultans

19665.0

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck

19915.3

Three Etc.'s and the Colonel

19608.0

Edward and Caroline

19516.5

À l'abri des regards indiscrets

20027.0

Too Many Lovers

19576.0

Black Sun

19664.8

Voice of Silence

19537.0

Obsession

19974.2

No Pockets in a Shroud

19745.4

Swedish Fly Girls

19714.9

The Little Ones of the Flower Platform

19446.6

Three Days to Live

19585.4

Une femme d'action

19978.0

Miquette

194010.0

Cherchez l'idole

19646.4

Coup de jeune

19937.5

Shadows of Adultery

19616.3

Lovers' Net

19555.0

Mort en fraude

19575.8

How to Make a French Dish

19644.9

The Temptation of Barbizon

19465.8

An Affair of States

19667.0

Torticola versus Frankensberg

19525.7

The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall

19656.4

The Moment of Truth

19526.0

Port of Desire

19585.3

Poorly Extinguished Fires

19948.0

Martin Roumagnac

19466.7

La Nuit de Sybille

19479.0

Max par Marcel: Lola Montès

2009

Killing Cars

19863.7

The Police Serve the Citizens?

19736.7

Guy de Maupassant

19825.4

This Desired Body

19596.2

Uncertain Verification

19656.6

Via Montenapoleone

19873.8

Ghost with Driver

19965.0

Hitch-Hike

19626.1

Love in a Hot Climate

19549.0

A Friend Will Come Tonight

19466.1

Julie la rousse

19595.0

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

19777.0

Promotion canapé

19905.1

Les Bidochon

19963.6

Destroy, She Said

19696.9

Season of Peace in Paris

19815.4

Her First Affair

19416.7

God Needs Men

19506.5

Blitz

19852.0

Witness Out of Hell

19677.0

Young Love

19516.3

I'll Get Back to Kandara

19569.0

Maid in Paris

195610.0

Three Girls in Paris

19635.8

Venom and Eternity

19526.9

The summer of all sorrows

1989

Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue

19737.0

The Hour of Truth

19656.0

The Servant

19707.0

Public Security

198710.0

The Children

19856.2

Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren

19909.0

The Truce

19689.0

Pushing the Limits

19947.0

Radio Surprises

19406.5

Ariane

1974

De force avec d'autres

19937.5

Far from Dallas

19727.3

Dirty Hands

19514.9

The Hell of Lost Pilots

19499.0

Dialogues of the Exiles

19756.6

Follow Me Young Man

19587.0

In the Mouth of the Wolf

19618.0

Les murs

19643.5

Un delitto

19847.0

Runaways

19956.5

Warrior Spirit

19946.5

L'Enquête du 58

19458.5

Public Opinion

19547.0

Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "La Ronde"

2008

Un enfant dans la ville

19717.0

Règlements de compte

19633.7

Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir"

2008

Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !

19794.0

Soyez les bienvenus

19429.0

Pétition

1987