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