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 Allégrets 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 dart 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 Beckers Édouard et Caroline (1951), Sacha Guitrys films Si Versailles métait conté (Royal Affairs in Versailles) (1954) and Napoléon (1955), Alfred Hitchcocks The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Jean Cocteaus Le Testament dOrphée (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.
Film 1981
Docteur Mavial
Film 1988
Le vétérinaire titulaire, chargé de cours (uncredited)
Film 1965
Pierre
Film 1958
Bastien, stage director
Film 1977
Charles Chevalier
Film 1971
The Intern (uncredited)
Film 1960
Mr. Mireille, the 2nd projectionist
Film 1994
Napoléon Bonaparte
Film 1955
Jean
Film 1952
Pierre Duvivier, Albert's father
Film 1988
Laurence
Film 1974
Jean Bompart
Film 1951
Daniel Roy
Film 1956
Louis Commandeur
Film 1953
Malagrida
Film 1978
Alfred, le jeune homme
Film 1950
Roland Grumaud
Film 1991
Daniel Prevost
Film 1952
Doctor Jacques Lafaye
Film 1966
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Film 1942
Film 1942
Chauveau-Laplace (uncredited)
Film 1941
Extra (uncredited)
Film 1940
Léonard Maurizius
Film 1954
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Film 1944
Mino
Film 1954
Stany
Film 1947
Saladin
Film 1947
le veuf
Film 1996
Lieutenant Villeneuve
Film 1949
Enrico
Film 1985
Self
Film 1951
le comédien qui répète "Cyrano"
Film 1962
Le surveillant du collège
Film 1946
Simon Belin
Film 1958
Lucien Bonnard
Film 1949
John Ball
Film 1994
Pierre Roubier
Film 1955
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Film 1965
Charles
Film 1947
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Léo
Film 1966
Monsieur de Sotenville
Film 1988
Jean Moulinier
Film 1993
Gaudeamus at 70
Film 1993
papy
Film 1989
Phegor
Film 1960
Eric Kraemmer
Film 1961
Edouard Mortier
Film 1951
Don Gomez
Film 1979
Hugo
Film 1951
Robert
Film 1953
Pierre Ribault
Film 1946
Le père Bidochon
Film 1996
Le passeur (Le guide céleste)
Film 1996
Bora Petrović
Film 1967
Brera
Film 1973
André
Film 1971
André Noblet
Film 1952
Ricardo Garcia
Film 1954
Guillaume Féraud
Film 1959
Bernard
Film 1966
Film 1997
Ballard
Film 1966
Alain Cartier
Film 1957
Vater
Film 1978
Gustave
Film 1982
Raymond
Film 1963
Jean
Film 1972
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Film 1954
Le père d'Evelyne
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College student
Film 1943
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Gunther Smith
Film 1965
Albert Blondel
Film 1976
Stanek
Film 1987
L'ancien prisonnier
Film 1953
Jean Collinet
Film 1954
The Man who sleeps in a Coffin
Film 1952
Shah
Film 1991
Fernand
Film 1991
The comedian
Film 1974
Charles
Film 1969
Michel
Film 1946
Davod
Film 1965
Philippe Demantes
Film 1945
Michel Corbier
Film 1958
Joseph Le Berre
Film 1950
Film 1975
Martino Morando
Film 1987
Arno
Film 1968
padre di Elena
Film 1987
L'autre lui-même
Film 1993
Il soldato Frédéric d'Héricourt
Film 1954
Paul Horcier
Film 1957
Bernard Cormière
Film 1956
Édouard Lavigne / Jean Lavigne
Film 1959
Jacques Saint-Ford
Film 1961
Le père de Fiona
Film 1994
Raymond
Film 1964
Bruno
Film 1995
Film 1940
Masure
Film 1961
Frank Friedmayer
Film 1954
Self (archive footage)
Film 2008
Self (archive footage)
Film 2008
Un drogué
Film 1961
Abdel-Robert
Film 2002
Self
Film 1990
Léopold
Film 1948
Self (archive footage)
Film 1988
Georges Bernier / Self
Film 1956
Michel Landa
Film 1953
Bernard Alione
Film 1969
Narrator (voice)
Film 1951
Dr. Robert Marbois
Film 1970
Le capitaine
Film 1968
Self (archive footage)
Film 2009
Dupin
Film 1973
Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)
Film 1964
Antoine du Merlet
Film 1956
Daniel
Film 1963
Gustave, the bartender
Film 1971
Le responsable des inspecteurs de la Justice
Film 1990
The gentleman from the beach
Film 1994
Bernard
Film 1978
Narrator (voice)
Film 1954
Coffino
Film 1951
Self
Tv 1975
Daubrecq
Tv 1971
Self
Tv 1975
Gregor Baschkurin
Tv 1987
Jean-Pierre Jolivet
Tv 1986
Self
Tv 1972
Edmond, le beau-père
Tv 1987
Self
Tv 1975
Self
Tv 1975
Self
Tv 1956
Self - Guest
Tv 1990
Pierre Lagarde
Tv 1965
Bazalo
Tv 1980
Self
Tv 1974
Self
Tv 1954