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. Source: Article "Daniel Gélin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
(Louis Bernard)
Trop c'est trop
(Flic)
Season of Peace in Paris
Life Is a Long Quiet River
(Docteur Mavial)
The Sleeping Car Murder
(Le vétérinaire titulaire, chargé de cours (uncredited))
Is Paris Burning?
(Yves Bayet)
Port of Desire
(Pierre)
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)
Le Plaisir
(Jean)
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
(Pierre Duvivier, Albert's father)
No Pockets in a Shroud
(Laurence)
Young Love
(Jean Bompart)
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 Prevost)
Line of Demarcation
(Doctor Jacques Lafaye)
Strangers in the House
((uncredited))
Soyez les bienvenus
Her First Affair
(Chauveau-Laplace (uncredited))
Radio Surprises
(Extra (uncredited))
On Trial
(Léonard Maurizius)
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
((uncredited))
Woman of Rome
(Mino)
La Nuit de Sybille
(Stany)
The Woman in Red
(Saladin)
Men, Women: A User's Manual
(le veuf)
The Hell of Lost Pilots
(Lieutenant Villeneuve)
The Children
(Enrico)
Venom and Eternity
(Self)
Hitch-Hike
(le comédien qui répète "Cyrano")
The Room Upstairs
(Le surveillant du collège)
Three Days to Live
(Simon Belin)
Rendezvous in July
(Lucien Bonnard)
Obsession
(Xavier Favre)
Warrior Spirit
(John Ball)
Lovers' Net
(Pierre Roubier)
Black Sun
(Guy Rodier)
Uncertain Verification
((archive footage))
Mirror
(Charles)
Killing Cars
(Kellermann)
L'Enquête du 58
The Sultans
(Léo)
Dandin
(Monsieur de Sotenville)
Coup de jeune
(Gaudeamus at 70)
Roulez jeunesse !
(Jean Moulinier)
The summer of all sorrows
(papy)
Carthage in Flames
(Phegor)
Shadows of Adultery
(Eric Kraemmer)
Edward and Caroline
(Edouard Mortier)
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
(Don Gomez)
Dirty Hands
(Hugo)
Rue de l'Estrapade
(Robert)
A Friend Will Come Tonight
(Pierre Ribault)
Les Bidochon
(Le père Bidochon)
Signé Furax
(Broutechoux)
Ghost with Driver
(Le passeur (Le guide céleste))
Witness Out of Hell
(Bora Petrović)
The Police Serve the Citizens?
(Brera)
Swedish Fly Girls
(André)
There's Always a Price Tag
(Robert Montillon)
Adorable Creatures
(André Noblet)
Love in a Hot Climate
(Ricardo Garcia)
This Desired Body
(Guillaume Féraud)
À belles dents
(Bernard)
Une femme d'action
An Affair of States
(Ballard)
Too Many Lovers
(Alain Cartier)
Schwüle Tage
(Vater)
Guy de Maupassant
(Gustave)
Three Girls in Paris
(Raymond)
Far from Dallas
(Jean)
Blitz
Public Opinion
Slogan
(Le père d'Evelyne)
Lucrèce
(College student)
Règlements de compte
The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
(Gunther Smith)
La jalousie
(Albert Blondel)
Pétition
(Stanek)
Voice of Silence
(L'ancien prisonnier)
Royal Affairs in Versailles
(Jean Collinet)
Torticola versus Frankensberg
(The Man who sleeps in a Coffin)
Iran: Days of Crisis
(Shah)
Mauvaise fille
(Fernand)
Ariane
(The comedian)
Sadistic Hallucinations
(Charles)
The Temptation of Barbizon
(Michel)
The Hour of Truth
(Davod)
Les Cadets de l'océan
(Philippe Demantes)
Follow Me Young Man
(Michel Corbier)
God Needs Men
(Joseph Le Berre)
Dialogues of the Exiles
Public Security
(Martino Morando)
Via Montenapoleone
(padre di Elena)
The Truce
(Arno)
De force avec d'autres
(L'autre lui-même)
The Cheerful Squadron
(Il soldato 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)
Runaways
(Bruno)
Miquette
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)
The Slave
(Michel Landa)
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)
La Discorde
(Bernard)
Chicago Digest
(Coffino)
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
(Narrator (voice))
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
(Self)
Arsène Lupin
(Daubrecq)
Midi Première
(Self)
The Legacy of Guldenburgs
(Gregor Baschkurin)
Le Tiroir secret
(Jean-Pierre Jolivet)
Le Grand Échiquier
(Self)
Marc et Sophie
(Edmond, le beau-père)
Numéro un
(Self)
Système 2
(Self)
Cinépanorama
(Self)
Les Saintes Chéries
(Pierre Lagarde)
Les Nuls, l'émission
(Self - Guest)
Tarendol
(Bazalo)
Der große Preis
(Self)
Reflets de Cannes
(Self)