Daniel Gélin
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
163
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
Sacrée Soirée
Midi Première
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Le Grand Échiquier
Numéro un
Cinépanorama
Strangers in the House
Les Bidochon
Napoleon
La Ronde
Adorable Creatures
Swedish Fly Girls
Reflets de Cannes
Runaways
Roulez jeunesse !
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
Maigret
Promotion canapé
Woman of Rome
Too Many Lovers
Martin Roumagnac
Der große Preis
Killing Cars
Le Plaisir
Schwüle Tage
Good Evening Paris
The Sleeping Car Murder
Murmur of the Heart
Un delitto
Pétition
Portuguese Vacation
The Sultans
The Truce
Marc et Sophie
Public Security
Arsène Lupin
Warrior Spirit
Mister Frost
Mirror
Système 2
Lucrèce
Is Paris Burning?
The Legacy of Guldenburgs
Black Sun
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
The Children
Life Is a Long Quiet River
Les Nuls, l'émission
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Edward and Caroline
Testament of Orpheus
Blitz
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "La Ronde"
Chicago Digest
The Cheerful Squadron
Cherchez l'idole
The Police Serve the Citizens?
The Moment of Truth
We Will All Meet in Paradise
La Discorde
No Pockets in a Shroud
The Man Who Knew Too Much
À belles dents
Rendezvous in July
Line of Demarcation
Venom and Eternity
Young Love
The Night of Varennes
A Friend Will Come Tonight
Season of Peace in Paris
Witness Out of Hell
This Desired Body
Poorly Extinguished Fires
Slogan
Three Days to Live
God Needs Men
Lovers' Net
Voice of Silence
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
I'll Get Back to Kandara
Three Girls in Paris
Ghost with Driver
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Carthage in Flames
Follow Me Young Man
Dirty Hands
Shadows of Adultery
Far from Dallas
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
Hitch-Hike
Her First Affair
On Trial
À l'abri des regards indiscrets
The Temptation of Barbizon
Love in a Hot Climate
Obsession
The Murdered Model
The Hell of Lost Pilots
Iran: Days of Crisis
Les Dents longues
Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
Stain on the Snow
There's Always a Price Tag
Règlements de compte
Destroy, She Said
Sadistic Hallucinations
The Servant
The Season for Love
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
Dialogues of the Exiles
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Le Tiroir secret
Les Cadets de l'océan
Rue de l'estrapade
Plucking the Daisy
Miquette
Les Saintes Chéries
Signé Furax
Uncertain Verification
An Affair of States
The Suspended Vocation
The Most Beautiful Month
Trop c'est trop
Men, Women: A User's Manual
Torticola versus Frankensberg
The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
Soyez les bienvenus
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
The Woman in Red
Coup de jeune
Mort en fraude
Tarendol
Port of Desire
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue
La légende cruelle
The Hour of Truth
Dandin
The Slave
L'Enquête du 58
Via Montenapoleone
Guy de Maupassant
Maid in Paris
Radio Surprises
How to Make a French Dish
In the Mouth of the Wolf
Ariane
La Nuit de Sybille
La jalousie
Un enfant dans la ville
Olga e i suoi figli
Julie la rousse
De force avec d'autres
The summer of all sorrows
Pushing the Limits
Public Opinion
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir"
Une femme d'action
Réveille-toi, chérie
Les murs
Mauvaise fille
Un type bien
