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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8604 |
| Birthday | 1921-05-19 |
| Place of Birth | Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France |
| Also Known As | Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin, Daniel Gelin, |
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4.8/4
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6.5/32
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4/3
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Dirty Hands
4.944/9
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Rue de l'estrapade
5.6/9
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6.143/7
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3.563/8
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1981
Signé Furax
5/15
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4.97/66
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1967
Witness Out of Hell
7/7
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1973
The Police Serve the Citizens?
6.7/5
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1971
Swedish Fly Girls
4.875/8
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1957
There's Always a Price Tag
6.6/20
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1952
Adorable Creatures
5.184/19
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1954
Love in a Hot Climate
9/1
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1959
This Desired Body
6.222/9
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1966
À belles dents
5.333/3
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1997
Une femme d'action
8/1
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1966
An Affair of States
7/1
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1957
Too Many Lovers
6/6
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1978
Schwüle Tage
8/1
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1982
Guy de Maupassant
5.375/8
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1963
Three Girls in Paris
5.8/5
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1972
Far from Dallas
7.333/3
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1985
Blitz
2/1
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1954
Public Opinion
7/1
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1969
Slogan
5.7/25
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1943
Lucrèce
7/2
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1963
Règlements de compte
3.667/3
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6.412/17
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La Jalousie
8/1
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0/0
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7/6
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6.656/32
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5.7/3
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6/2
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0/0
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3.2/5
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6/5
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6/3
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7/2
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6.5/6
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6.4/7
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10/1
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3.824/17
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9/1
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7.5/2
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The Cheerful Squadron
6.143/7
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Mort en fraude
5.813/8
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I'll Get Back to Kandara
9/1
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Julie la rousse
5/2
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1961
The Season for Love
5.143/14
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Pushing the Limits
7/1
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How to Make a French Dish
4.889/9
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Runaways
6.5/3
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Miquette
10/1
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1961
Réveille-toi, chérie
0/0
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Stain on the Snow
6.3/12
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0/0
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0/0
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In the Mouth of the Wolf
8/4
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À l'abri des regards indiscrets
7/3
January 1st 2002. 1st day of Euro currency. The window of a cash dispenser is lifting up on a square, in Paris. 23 amazing characters will be meeting...
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À l'abri des regards indiscrets
1990
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
9/1
Employees remember the director Max Ophüls, who was forced to emigrate in 1933 - his fifth film "Liebelei" was a great success in cinemas. After an od...
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Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
1948
The Murdered Model
5.667/3
Commissioner Malaise investigates a strange crime: a mannequin, stolen from the window of a tailor, is found stabbed... But his face of wax has the fe...
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The Murdered Model
1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
6.5/2
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1956
Good Evening Paris
10/1
A foreign pianist who comes to visit Paris is ripped off by a young man and his sister. But he soon falls in love with this one.
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Good Evening Paris
1953
The Slave
7/3
A young composer is forced to work as a bar pianist. One night he gets hit by a car and is brought to a hospital. Severely injured he is injected with...
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The Slave
1960
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
8/1
In Spain, during the Napoleonic rule, the French Governor of Andalusia is besieged by the locals who have countless demands and wishes.
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Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
1969
Destroy, She Said
6.9/14
In a secluded hotel circumscribed by a dense forest Max and Alissa Thor meet Stein and Elisabeth. Max, a professor of future history and an aspiring a...
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Destroy, She Said
1951
La légende cruelle
0/0
The life of a young man, left to spells and monsters, according to the paintings by Leonor Fini.
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La légende cruelle
1970
The Servant
7/2
18-year-old small town Aline arrives in Paris and is employed as house servant in Robert and Ulla Marbois' home. Robert takes a fancy towards Aline an...
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The Servant
1968
The Most Beautiful Month
6/3
The life of the inhabitants of a village in the Drôme region during the debacle of May-June 1940. Liberated, Cyprien Boromès returns to his village to...
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The Most Beautiful Month
2009
Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
0/0
In a series of four documentaries, Marcel Ophuls pays tribute to his father Max, and in this last one discusses his role as an assistant director on "...
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Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
1973
Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue
7/3
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Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue
1964
Cherchez l'idole
6.4/12
After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious in...
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Cherchez l'idole
1956
Maid in Paris
10/1
Penelope Benson, known as Penny, is both romantic and determined. Put in a select boarding school by her mother, she takes advantage of a trip to Pari...
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Maid in Paris
1963
Portuguese Vacation
5.769/13
Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a ro...
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Portuguese Vacation
1971
Un enfant dans la ville
7/1
"Un enfant dans la ville" was originally a Michel Fugain album, a record that already told a story. Now it's a musical comedy filmed for television, g...
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Un enfant dans la ville
1990
Promotion canapé
5.096/52
Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.
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Promotion canapé
1994
Poorly Extinguished Fires
8/1
A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel...
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Poorly Extinguished Fires
1978
La Discorde
9/1
A man comes back to his old haunts and surveys the changes around him
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La Discorde
1951
Chicago Digest
9/1
This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Film Noir.
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Chicago Digest
1954
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
7/0
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Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
1964
Les murs
3.5/1
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Les murs
1984
Un delitto
7/1
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Un delitto
1977
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
7/3
Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop culture. Courant posits that his cinema offers an a...
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Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
1991
Un type bien
3.333/3
Tonton (aged 59, with a weak heart), drives his taxi by day. By night, his nephew Jules takes the wheel. They adore each other. This evening, however,...
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Un type bien
2022
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
8/6
Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles as he lived, at a thousand miles an hour. He had on...
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