Cast

Daniel Gélin

Acting

Cast

Daniel Gélin

Known for

Acting

Born

1921-05-19

From

Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France

Died

2002-11-29

Also known as Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin, Daniel Gelin

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.

Daniel Gélin

Daniel Gélin

Biography

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Is Paris Burning?

Murmur of the Heart

Napoleon

Slogan

Mauvaise fille

Line of Demarcation

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child

Swedish Fly Girls

The Slave

Signé Furax

La Discorde

Les Cadets de l'océan

On Trial

Schwüle Tage

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

The Sleeping Car Murders

À belles dents

Roulez jeunesse !

Lucrèce

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

There's Always a Price Tag

Life Is a Long Quiet River

Rendezvous in July

Les Dents longues

The Suspended Vocation

Stain on the Snow

Réveille-toi, chérie

That Night of Varennes

Sadistic Hallucinations

Chicago Digest

La Ronde

The Cheerful Squadron

Three Days to Live

Un type bien

The Woman in Red

Good Evening Paris

Royal Affairs in Versailles

We Will All Meet in Paradise

Blitz

Promotion canapé

Le Plaisir

Men, Women: A User's Manual

No Pockets in a Shroud

La Jalousie

Rue de l'estrapade

Testament of Orpheus

Mister Frost

In the Mouth of the Wolf

Plucking the Daisy

Obsession

Adorable Creatures

Miquette

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

The Sultans

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck

The Most Beautiful Month

Mirror

La légende cruelle

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Cherchez l'idole

Martin Roumagnac

Port of Desire

Black Sun

Lovers' Net

Voice of Silence

De force avec d'autres

Strangers in the House

Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue

Woman of Rome

The Moment of Truth

Dandin

Trop c'est trop

Killing Cars

Mort en fraude

Carthage in Flames

How to Make a French Dish