
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.
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Acting (133 movies)

The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956

Trop c'est trop
1975

Season of Peace in Paris
1981

Life Is a Long Quiet River
1988

The Sleeping Car Murder
1965

Is Paris Burning?
1966

Port of Desire
1958

Mister Frost
1990

We Will All Meet in Paradise
1977

The Night of Varennes
1982

Murmur of the Heart
1971

Testament of Orpheus
1960

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994

Napoleon
1955

Le Plaisir
1952

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
1988

No Pockets in a Shroud
1974

Young Love
1951

Plucking the Daisy
1956

Les Dents longues
1953

The Suspended Vocation
1978

La Ronde
1950

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
1991

The Moment of Truth
1952

Line of Demarcation
1966

Strangers in the House
1942

Soyez les bienvenus
1942

Her First Affair
1941

Radio Surprises
1940

On Trial
1954

The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
1944

Woman of Rome
1954

La Nuit de Sybille
1947

The Woman in Red
1947

Men, Women: A User's Manual
1996

The Hell of Lost Pilots
1949

The Children
1985

Venom and Eternity
1952

Hitch-Hike
1962

Martin Roumagnac
1946

Three Days to Live
1958

Rendezvous in July
1949

Obsession
1997

Lovers' Net
1955

Black Sun
1966

Uncertain Verification
1965

Mirror
1947

Killing Cars
1986

L'Enquête du 58
1945

The Sultans
1966

Dandin
1988

Roulez jeunesse !
1993

Coup de jeune
1993

The summer of all sorrows
1989

Carthage in Flames
1960

Shadows of Adultery
1961

Edward and Caroline
1951

Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
1979

Dirty Hands
1951

Rue de l'estrapade
1953

A Friend Will Come Tonight
1946

Les Bidochon
1996

Signé Furax
1981

Ghost with Driver
1996

Witness Out of Hell
1967

The Police Serve the Citizens?
1973

Swedish Fly Girls
1971

There's Always a Price Tag
1957

Adorable Creatures
1952

Love in a Hot Climate
1954

This Desired Body
1959

À belles dents
1966

Une femme d'action
1997

An Affair of States
1966

Too Many Lovers
1957

Guy de Maupassant
1982

Three Girls in Paris
1963

Far from Dallas
1972

Public Opinion
1954

Slogan
1969

Règlements de compte
1963

The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
1965

La jalousie
1976

Voice of Silence
1953

Royal Affairs in Versailles
1954

Iran: Days of Crisis
1991

Mauvaise fille
1991

Ariane
1974

Sadistic Hallucinations
1969

The Temptation of Barbizon
1946

The Hour of Truth
1965

Les Cadets de l'océan
1945

Follow Me Young Man
1958

God Needs Men
1950

Dialogues of the Exiles
1975

Public Security
1987

The Truce
1968

Via Montenapoleone
1987

The Cheerful Squadron
1954

Mort en fraude
1957
Directing (1 movie)
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