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.
145 movies · 21 shows
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022·8.2
Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
2009·0.0
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir"
2008·0.0
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "La Ronde"
2008·0.0
À l'abri des regards indiscrets
2002·7.0
Une femme d'action
1997·8.0
Obsession
1997·4.2
Men, Women: A User's Manual
1996·6.0
Les Bidochon
1996·3.6
Ghost with Driver
1996·5.0
Runaways
1995·6.5
Pushing the Limits
1994·7.0
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994·7.5
Poorly Extinguished Fires
1994·8.0
Warrior Spirit
1994·6.5
Roulez jeunesse !
1993·7.8
De force avec d'autres
1993·7.5
Coup de jeune
1993·7.5
Un type bien
1991·3.3
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
1991·5.3
Mauvaise fille
1991·6.0
Promotion canapé
1990·5.1
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
1990·9.0
Mister Frost
1990·6.2
The summer of all sorrows
1989·0.0
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
1988·7.2
Life Is a Long Quiet River
1988·6.7
Dandin
1988·4.8
Public Security
1987·10.0
Via Montenapoleone
1987·3.8
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987·6.5
Pétition
1987·0.0
Killing Cars
1986·3.7
The Children
1985·6.2
Blitz
1985·2.0
Un delitto
1984·7.0
That Night of Varennes
1982·6.9
Guy de Maupassant
1982·5.4
Season of Peace in Paris
1981·5.4
Signé Furax
1981·5.0
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
1979·4.0
Schwüle Tage
1978·8.0
The Suspended Vocation
1978·6.6
La Discorde
1978·9.0
We Will All Meet in Paradise
1977·6.8
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
1977·7.0
La Jalousie
1976·8.0
Trop c'est trop
1975·6.3
Dialogues of the Exiles
1975·6.6
Ariane
1974·0.0
No Pockets in a Shroud
1974·5.4
The Police Serve the Citizens?
1973·6.7
Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue
1973·7.0
Far from Dallas
1972·7.3
Un enfant dans la ville
1971·7.0
Swedish Fly Girls
1971·4.9
Murmur of the Heart
1971·7.0
The Servant
1970·7.0
Destroy, She Said
1969·6.9
Sadistic Hallucinations
1969·3.2
Slogan
1969·5.7
The Most Beautiful Month
1968·6.0
The Truce
1968·9.0
Witness Out of Hell
1967·7.0
Black Sun
1966·4.8
Is Paris Burning?
1966·7.2
À belles dents
1966·5.3
Line of Demarcation
1966·6.2
The Sultans
1966·5.0
An Affair of States
1966·7.0
The Sleeping Car Murders
1965·6.9
Uncertain Verification
1965·6.6
The Hour of Truth
1965·6.0
The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
1965·6.4
Les murs
1964·3.5
Cherchez l'idole
1964·6.4
How to Make a French Dish
1964·4.9
Three Girls in Paris
1963·5.8
Portuguese Vacation
1963·5.8
Règlements de compte
1963·3.7
Hitch-Hike
1962·6.1
Réveille-toi, chérie
1961·0.0
In the Mouth of the Wolf
1961·8.0
The Season for Love
1961·5.1
Shadows of Adultery
1961·6.3
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
1960·8.0
Testament of Orpheus
1960·7.6
Carthage in Flames
1960·5.2
Julie la rousse
1959·5.0
This Desired Body
1959·6.2
Follow Me Young Man
1958·7.0
Port of Desire
1958·5.3
Three Days to Live
1958·5.4
Too Many Lovers
1957·6.0
There's Always a Price Tag
1957·6.6
Mort en fraude
1957·5.8
I'll Get Back to Kandara
1956·9.0
Good Evening Paris
1956·10.0
Plucking the Daisy
1956·6.3
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956·7.4
Maid in Paris
1956·10.0
Napoleon
1955·6.3
Lovers' Net
1955·5.0
The Cheerful Squadron
1954·6.1
Woman of Rome
1954·6.1
On Trial
1954·6.8
Love in a Hot Climate
1954·9.0
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
1954·7.0
Public Opinion
1954·7.0
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1953·6.7
The Slave
1953·7.0
Rue de l'estrapade
1953·5.6
Voice of Silence
1953·7.0
Stain on the Snow
1953·6.3
Les Dents longues
1953·5.8
The Moment of Truth
1952·6.0
Torticola versus Frankensberg
1952·5.7
Le Plaisir
1952·7.5
Venom and Eternity
1952·6.9
Adorable Creatures
1952·5.1
Young Love
1951·6.3
Dirty Hands
1951·4.9
Chicago Digest
1951·9.0
Edward and Caroline
1951·6.5
La légende cruelle
1951·0.0
God Needs Men
1950·6.5
La Ronde
1950·7.3
Rendezvous in July
1949·6.1
The Hell of Lost Pilots
1949·9.0
The Murdered Model
1948·5.7
The Woman in Red
1947·10.0
Mirror
1947·7.1
La Nuit de Sybille
1947·9.0
Martin Roumagnac
1946·6.7
A Friend Will Come Tonight
1946·6.1
The Temptation of Barbizon
1946·5.8
Les Cadets de l'océan
1945·6.0
L'Enquête du 58
1945·8.5
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
1944·6.6
Lucrèce
1943·7.0
Soyez les bienvenus
1942·9.0
Strangers in the House
1942·7.0
Her First Affair
1941·6.7
Radio Surprises
1940·6.5
Miquette
1940·10.0