Daniel Gélin

Known for ActingBorn 1921-05-19Died 2002-11-29Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Public Security

Good Evening Paris

Maid in Paris

The Woman in Red

Miquette

Iran: Days of Crisis

Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren

La Discorde

Midi Première

The Truce

I'll Get Back to Kandara

Love in a Hot Climate

Chicago Digest

The Hell of Lost Pilots

Les Nuls, l'émission

La Nuit de Sybille

Soyez les bienvenus

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

Cinépanorama

Une femme d'action

L'Enquête du 58

In the Mouth of the Wolf

Poorly Extinguished Fires

Schwüle Tage

La Jalousie

Le Grand Échiquier

Maigret

Roulez jeunesse !

Three Etc.'s and the Colonel

Arsène Lupin

Coup de jeune

De force avec d'autres

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

Numéro un

Testament of Orpheus

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child

Der große Preis

Far from Dallas

Le Plaisir

À l'abri des regards indiscrets

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Pushing the Limits

Is Paris Burning?

Olga e i suoi figli

Un delitto

Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante

La Ronde

Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue