Daniel Gélin

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.

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Daniel Gélin

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L'uomo che sapeva troppo

Trop c'est trop

Сезона мира у Паризу

La vita è un lungo fiume tranquillo

Vagone letto per assassini

Parigi brucia?

La fille de Hambourg

Mister Frost

Nous irons tous au paradis

Il mondo nuovo

Soffio al cuore

Il testamento di Orfeo

Quattro delitti in allegria

Napoleone

Il piacere

Una vita non basta

Un lenzuolo non ha tasche

Gioventù incompresa

Miss spogliarello

I denti lunghi

La Vocation suspendue

Il piacere e l'amore

I segreti professionali del Dottor Apfelglück

L'ora della verità

La linea di demarcazione

Les Inconnus dans la maison

Soyez les bienvenus

Premier rendez-vous

Les Surprises de la radio

Il caso Maurizius

Les Petites du quai aux fleurs

La romana

La Nuit de Sybille

La Femme en rouge

Uomini e donne: istruzioni per l'uso

Le paradis des pilotes perdus

Les Enfants

Trattato di Bava e d’Eternità

Una ragazza a rimorchio

Turbine d'amore

Partita a tre

Le sedicenni

Obsession

Warrior Spirit

Gli amanti del Tago

L'Angelica avventuriera

La verifica incerta

Maschera di sangue

Killing Cars

L'Enquête du 58

L'amante italiana

Dandin

Roulez jeunesse !

Coup de jeune

L'été de tous les chagrins

Cartagine in fiamme

La Proie pour l'ombre

Edoardo e Carolina

Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !

Les Mains sales

Rue de l'estrapade

Un ami viendra ce soir...

Les Bidochon

Signé Furax

Fantôme avec chauffeur

Die Zeugin aus der Hölle

La polizia è al servizio del cittadino?

Christa

Delitto sulla Costa Azzurra

Quando le donne amano

Sang et lumières

Ce corps tant désiré

À belles dents

Une femme d'action

Zwei Girls vom roten Stern