Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
May 19, 1921
Place of Birth:
Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
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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Year | Movie | Role |
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2009 | Max par Marcel: Lola Montès | Self (archive footage) |
2008 | Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir" | Self (archive footage) |
2008 | Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "La Ronde" | Self (archive footage) |
2002 | À l'abri des regards indiscrets | Abdel-Robert |
1997 | Obsession | Xavier Favre |
1997 | Une femme d'action | Charles |
1996 | Men, Women: A User's Manual | le veuf |
1996 | Les Bidochon | Le père Bidochon |
1996 | Ghost with Driver | Le passeur (Le guide céleste) |
1995 | Runaways | Bruno |
1994 | Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy | Mr. Mireille, the 2nd projectionist |
1994 | Warrior Spirit | John Ball |
1994 | Pushing the Limits | Le père de Fiona |
1994 | Poorly Extinguished Fires | The gentleman from the beach |
1993 | Coup de jeune | Gaudeamus at 70 |
1993 | Roulez jeunesse ! | Jean Moulinier |
1993 | De force avec d'autres | L'autre lui-même |
1991 | The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck | Roland Grumaud |
1991 | Iran: Days of Crisis | Shah |
1991 | Mauvaise fille | Fernand |
1990 | Mister Frost | Simon Scolari |
1990 | Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren | Self |
1990 | Promotion canapé | Le responsable des inspecteurs de la Justice |
1989 | The summer of all sorrows | papy |
1988 | Life Is a Long Quiet River | Docteur Mavial |
1988 | Itinerary of a Spoiled Child | Pierre Duvivier, Albert's father |
1988 | Dandin | Monsieur de Sotenville |
1988 | James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage) |
1987 | Pétition | Stanek |
1987 | Public Security | Martino Morando |
1987 | Via Montenapoleone | padre di Elena |
1986 | Killing Cars | Kellermann |
1985 | The Children | Enrico |
1985 | Blitz | |
1984 | Un delitto | |
1982 | The Night of Varennes | De Wendel |
1982 | Guy de Maupassant | Gustave |
1981 | Season of Peace in Paris | |
1981 | Signé Furax | Broutechoux |
1979 | Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise ! | Don Gomez |
1978 | The Suspended Vocation | Malagrida |
1978 | Schwüle Tage | Vater |
1978 | La Discorde | Bernard |
1977 | We Will All Meet in Paradise | Bastien, stage director |
1976 | La jalousie | Albert Blondel |
1975 | Trop c'est trop | Flic |
1975 | Dialogues of the Exiles | |
1974 | No Pockets in a Shroud | Laurence |
1974 | Ariane | The comedian |
1973 | The Police Serve the Citizens? | Brera |
1973 | Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue | Dupin |
1972 | Far from Dallas | Jean |
1971 | Murmur of the Heart | Charles Chevalier |
1971 | Swedish Fly Girls | André |
1971 | Un enfant dans la ville | Gustave, the bartender |
1970 | The Servant | Dr. Robert Marbois |
1969 | Slogan | Le père d'Evelyne |
1969 | Sadistic Hallucinations | Charles |
1969 | Destroy, She Said | Bernard Alione |
1968 | The Truce | Arno |
1968 | The Most Beautiful Month | Le capitaine |
1967 | Witness Out of Hell | Bora Petrović |
1966 | Is Paris Burning? | Yves Bayet |
1966 | Line of Demarcation | Doctor Jacques Lafaye |
1966 | Black Sun | Guy Rodier |
1966 | The Sultans | Léo |
1966 | À belles dents | Bernard |
1966 | An Affair of States | Ballard |
1965 | The Sleeping Car Murder | Le vétérinaire titulaire, chargé de cours (uncredited) |
1965 | Uncertain Verification | (archive footage) |
1965 | The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall | Gunther Smith |
1965 | The Hour of Truth | Davod |
1964 | How to Make a French Dish | Raymond |
1964 | Cherchez l'idole | Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited) |
1964 | Les murs | François Bonjean |
1963 | Three Girls in Paris | Raymond |
1963 | Règlements de compte | |
1963 | Portuguese Vacation | Daniel |
1962 | Hitch-Hike | le comédien qui répète "Cyrano" |
1961 | Shadows of Adultery | Eric Kraemmer |
1961 | The Season for Love | Jacques Saint-Ford |
1961 | Réveille-toi, chérie | Masure |
1961 | In the Mouth of the Wolf | Un drogué |
1960 | Testament of Orpheus | The Intern (uncredited) |
1960 | Carthage in Flames | Phegor |
1960 | Three Etc.'s and the Colonel | Lieutenant Miguel Villard |
1959 | This Desired Body | Guillaume Féraud |
1959 | Julie la rousse | Édouard Lavigne / Jean Lavigne |
1958 | Port of Desire | Pierre |
1958 | Three Days to Live | Simon Belin |
1958 | Follow Me Young Man | Michel Corbier |
1957 | There's Always a Price Tag | Robert Montillon |
1957 | Too Many Lovers | Alain Cartier |
1957 | Mort en fraude | Paul Horcier |
1956 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | Louis Bernard |
1956 | Plucking the Daisy | Daniel Roy |
1956 | I'll Get Back to Kandara | Bernard Cormière |
1956 | Good Evening Paris | Georges Bernier / Self |
1956 | Maid in Paris | Antoine du Merlet |
1955 | Napoleon | Napoléon Bonaparte |
1955 | Lovers' Net | Pierre Roubier |
1954 | On Trial | Léonard Maurizius |
1954 | Woman of Rome | Mino |
1954 | Love in a Hot Climate | Ricardo Garcia |
1954 | Public Opinion | |
1954 | Royal Affairs in Versailles | Jean Collinet |
1954 | The Cheerful Squadron | Il soldato Frédéric d'Héricourt |
1954 | Stain on the Snow | Frank Friedmayer |
1954 | Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances | Narrator (voice) |
1953 | Les Dents longues | Louis Commandeur |
1953 | Rue de l'Estrapade | Robert |
1953 | Voice of Silence | L'ancien prisonnier |
1953 | The Slave | Michel Landa |
1952 | Le Plaisir | Jean |
1952 | Venom and Eternity | Self |
1952 | Adorable Creatures | André Noblet |
1952 | Torticola versus Frankensberg | The Man who sleeps in a Coffin |
1951 | Young Love | Jean Bompart |
1951 | The Moment of Truth | Daniel Prévost |
1951 | Edward and Caroline | Edouard Mortier |
1951 | Dirty Hands | Hugo |
1951 | La légende cruelle | Narrator (voice) |
1951 | Chicago Digest | Coffino |
1950 | La Ronde | Alfred, le jeune homme |
1950 | God Needs Men | Joseph Le Berre |
1949 | The Hell of Lost Pilots | Lieutenant Villeneuve |
1949 | Rendezvous in July | Lucien Bonnard |
1948 | The Murdered Model | Léopold |
1947 | La Nuit de Sybille | Stany |
1947 | The Woman in Red | Saladin |
1947 | Mirror | Charles |
1946 | Martin Roumagnac | Le surveillant du collège |
1946 | A Friend Will Come Tonight | Pierre Ribault |
1946 | The Temptation of Barbizon | Michel |
1945 | L'Enquête du 58 | |
1945 | Les Cadets de l'océan | Philippe Demantes |
1944 | The Little Ones of the Flower Platform | (uncredited) |
1943 | Lucrèce | College student |
1942 | Strangers in the House | (uncredited) |
1942 | Soyez les bienvenus | |
1941 | Her First Affair | Chauveau-Laplace (uncredited) |
1940 | Radio Surprises | Extra (uncredited) |
1940 | Miquette |
Year | TV Show | Role |
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1990 | Les Nuls, l'émission | Self - Guest |
1987 | The Legacy of Guldenburgs | Gregor Baschkurin |
1987 | Marc et Sophie | Edmond, le beau-père |
1987 | Sacrée soirée | Self |
1986 | Le Tiroir secret | Jean-Pierre Jolivet |
1980 | Tarendol | Bazalo |
1975 | Les Rendez-vous du dimanche | Self |
1975 | Midi Première | Self |
1975 | Numéro un | Self |
1975 | Système 2 | Self |
1974 | Der große Preis | Self |
1972 | Le Grand Échiquier | Self |
1971 | Arsène Lupin | Daubrecq |
1965 | Les Saintes Chéries | Pierre Lagarde |
1956 | Cinépanorama | Self |
1954 | Reflets de Cannes | Self |