Daniel Gélin
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
161
Gender
Male
Birthday
1921-05-19
Day of death
2002-11-29 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Daniel Gélin
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.
Known For
Midi Première
Sacrée Soirée
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Numéro un
Le Grand Échiquier
Der große Preis
Cinépanorama
Système 2
À belles dents
Swedish Fly Girls
Un delitto
Murmur of the Heart
Black Sun
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
The Children
Venom and Eternity
Far from Dallas
Edward and Caroline
Woman of Rome
Public Security
Adorable Creatures
I'll Get Back to Kandara
Pétition
Obsession
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
Reflets de Cannes
Les Nuls, l'émission
Mister Frost
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Witness Out of Hell
Lucrèce
The Legacy of Guldenburgs
Dirty Hands
The Police Serve the Citizens?
Marc et Sophie
The Sleeping Car Murder
Is Paris Burning?
Portuguese Vacation
Poorly Extinguished Fires
Cherchez l'idole
Le Plaisir
Runaways
Ariane
Napoleon
Les Bidochon
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Love in a Hot Climate
Rendezvous in July
Too Many Lovers
Martin Roumagnac
Season of Peace in Paris
The Truce
Arsène Lupin
Lovers' Net
God Needs Men
Hitch-Hike
Iran: Days of Crisis
Her First Affair
The Night of Varennes
Young Love
Warrior Spirit
Via Montenapoleone
Killing Cars
We Will All Meet in Paradise
Maid in Paris
Schwüle Tage
La Ronde
Three Girls in Paris
Ghost with Driver
Uncertain Verification
La légende cruelle
Promotion canapé
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Strangers in the House
This Desired Body
Voice of Silence
Roulez jeunesse !
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
Testament of Orpheus
Carthage in Flames
Shadows of Adultery
The Moment of Truth
Torticola versus Frankensberg
No Pockets in a Shroud
Slogan
Mirror
Life Is a Long Quiet River
The Servant
À l'abri des regards indiscrets
Chicago Digest
The Sultans
Line of Demarcation
Le Tiroir secret
On Trial
Follow Me Young Man
Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
The Murdered Model
Les Saintes Chéries
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
Tarendol
Good Evening Paris
Blitz
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
An Affair of States
Les Dents longues
Dialogues of the Exiles
Rue de l'estrapade
The Season for Love
Les Cadets de l'océan
Men, Women: A User's Manual
Three Days to Live
The Woman in Red
Stain on the Snow
The Most Beautiful Month
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Soyez les bienvenus
Sadistic Hallucinations
Port of Desire
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
The Cheerful Squadron
Règlements de compte
A Friend Will Come Tonight
Une femme d'action
Trop c'est trop
Mort en fraude
Olga e i suoi figli
Plucking the Daisy
The Temptation of Barbizon
Miquette
Mauvaise fille
De force avec d'autres
The Slave
La Discorde
The Suspended Vocation
The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
The Hell of Lost Pilots
The summer of all sorrows
There's Always a Price Tag
Coup de jeune
The Hour of Truth
La jalousie
In the Mouth of the Wolf
Pushing the Limits
L'Enquête du 58
Radio Surprises
Signé Furax
Destroy, She Said
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
Guy de Maupassant
How to Make a French Dish
Dandin
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir"
Julie la rousse
Public Opinion
Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue
Réveille-toi, chérie
Un enfant dans la ville
Les murs
La Nuit de Sybille
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "La Ronde"
