Daniel Gélin
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1921-05-19
Deathday 2002-11-29 (81 years old)
Place of Birth Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Also Known As Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin, Daniel Gelin
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
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Abdel-Robert
as Xavier Favre
as le veuf
as Le père Bidochon
as Le passeur (Le guide céleste)
as Bruno
as Le père de Fiona
as Mr. Mireille, the 2nd projectionist
as The gentleman from the beach
as John Ball
as Jean Moulinier
as L'autre lui-même
as Gaudeamus at 70
as Shah
as Roland Grumaud
as Fernand
as Le responsable des inspecteurs de la Justice
as Simon Scolari
as Self - Guest
as papy
as Pierre Duvivier, Albert's father
as Self (archive footage)
as Docteur Mavial
as Monsieur de Sotenville
as Martino Morando
as padre di Elena
as Stanek
as Edmond, le beau-père
as Gregor Baschkurin
as Kellermann
as Jean-Pierre Jolivet
as Enrico
as De Wendel
as Gustave
as Broutechoux
as Bazalo
as Don Gomez
as Vater
as Malagrida
as Bernard
as Bastien, stage director
as Albert Blondel
as Flic
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as The comedian
as Laurence
as Self
as Brera
as Dupin
as Jean
as Self
as Gustave, the bartender
as André
as Charles Chevalier
as Daubrecq
as Dr. Robert Marbois
as Bernard Alione
as Charles
as Le père d'Evelyne
as Le capitaine
as Arno
as Bora Petrović
as Guy Rodier
as Yves Bayet
as Bernard
as Doctor Jacques Lafaye
as Léo
as Ballard
as Le vétérinaire titulaire, chargé de cours (uncredited)
as (archive footage)
as Davod
as Gunther Smith
as Pierre Lagarde
as Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)
as Raymond
as Raymond
as Daniel
as le comédien qui répète "Cyrano"
as Masure
as Un drogué
as Jacques Saint-Ford
as Eric Kraemmer
as Lieutenant Miguel Villard
as The Intern (uncredited)
as Phegor
as Édouard Lavigne / Jean Lavigne
as Guillaume Féraud
as Michel Corbier
as Pierre
as Simon Belin
as Alain Cartier
as Robert Montillon
as Paul Horcier
as Bernard Cormière
as Georges Bernier / Self
as Daniel Roy
as Louis Bernard
as Antoine du Merlet
as Self
as Napoléon Bonaparte
as Pierre Roubier
as Il soldato Frédéric d'Héricourt
as Mino
as Léonard Maurizius
as Ricardo Garcia
as Narrator (voice)
as Frank Friedmayer
as Jean Collinet
as Self
as Michel Landa
as Robert
as L'ancien prisonnier
as Louis Commandeur
as Daniel Prevost
as The Man who sleeps in a Coffin
as Jean
as André Noblet
as Jean Bompart
as Hugo
as Coffino
as Self
as Edouard Mortier
as Narrator (voice)
as Joseph Le Berre
as Alfred, le jeune homme
as Lucien Bonnard
as Lieutenant Villeneuve
as Léopold
as Saladin
as Charles
as Stany
as Le surveillant du collège
as Pierre Ribault
as Michel
as Philippe Demantes
as (uncredited)
as College student
as (uncredited)
as Chauveau-Laplace (uncredited)
as Extra (uncredited)
Director
as Director
Writer
as Adaptation