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L'Enquête du 58
1945
Daniel Gélin
Acting
Born:May 19, 1921
Died:November 29, 2002(aged 81)
Birthplace:Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (136 movies)
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Testament of Orpheus
1960
as The Intern (uncredited)
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7.5
In the Mouth of the Wolf
1961
as Un drogué
7.5
7.5
Le Plaisir
1952
as Jean
7.5
7.5
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994
as Mr. Mireille, the 2nd projectionist
7.5
7.5
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956
as Louis Bernard
7.3
7.3
La Ronde
1950
as Alfred, le jeune homme
7.3
7.3
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
1988
as Pierre Duvivier, Albert's father
7.2
7.2
Is Paris Burning?
1966
as Yves Bayet
7.0
7.0
Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue
1973
as Dupin
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7.0
Murmur of the Heart
1971
as Charles Chevalier
6.8
6.8
Destroy, She Said
1969
as Bernard Alione
6.8
6.8
The Night of Varennes
1982
as De Wendel
6.8
6.8
On Trial
1954
as Léonard Maurizius
6.8
6.8
Life Is a Long Quiet River
1988
as Docteur Mavial
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6.7
We Will All Meet in Paradise
1977
as Bastien, stage director
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6.7
Witness Out of Hell
1967
as Bora Petrović
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6.7
Venom and Eternity
1952
as Self
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6.6
Uncertain Verification
1965
as (archive footage)
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The Police Serve the Citizens?
1973
as Brera
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Dialogues of the Exiles
1975
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
1954
as Jean Collinet
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6.6
Martin Roumagnac
1946
as Le surveillant du collège
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6.4
Voice of Silence
1953
as L'ancien prisonnier
6.4
6.4
The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
1965
as Gunther Smith
6.4
6.4
Edward and Caroline
1951
as Edouard Mortier
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Napoleon
1955
as Napoléon Bonaparte
6.3
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There's Always a Price Tag
1957
as Robert Montillon
6.3
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Mirror
1947
as Charles
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Plucking the Daisy
1956
as Daniel Roy
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God Needs Men
1950
as Joseph Le Berre
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Young Love
1951
as Jean Bompart
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Line of Demarcation
1966
as Doctor Jacques Lafaye
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The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
1944
as (uncredited)
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Mister Frost
1990
as Simon Scolari
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Shadows of Adultery
1961
as Eric Kraemmer
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Stain on the Snow
1954
as Frank Friedmayer
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Far from Dallas
1972
as Jean
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6.0
The Suspended Vocation
1978
as Malagrida
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The Servant
1970
as Dr. Robert Marbois
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6.0
This Desired Body
1959
as Guillaume Féraud
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5.9
The Children
1985
as Enrico
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5.9
Woman of Rome
1954
as Mino
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5.8
The Moment of Truth
1952
as Daniel Prévost
5.8
5.8
Runaways
1995
as Bruno
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5.8
Rendezvous in July
1949
as Lucien Bonnard
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5.7
The Cheerful Squadron
1954
as Frédéric d'Héricourt
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5.7
The Temptation of Barbizon
1946
as Michel
5.7
5.7
Trop c'est trop
1975
as Flic
5.6
5.6
Slogan
1969
as Evelyne's father
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5.6
Portuguese Vacation
1963
as Daniel
5.6
5.6
Too Many Lovers
1957
as Alain Cartier
5.6
5.6
Mort en fraude
1957
as Paul Horcier
5.5
5.5
Hitch-Hike
1962
as le comédien qui répète "Cyrano"
5.5
5.5
Roulez jeunesse !
1993
as Jean Moulinier
5.5
5.5
The Slave
1953
as Michel Landa
5.5
5.5
A Friend Will Come Tonight
1946
as Pierre Ribault
5.5
5.5
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
1977
as Self
5.5
5.5
À l'abri des regards indiscrets
2002
as Abdel-Robert
5.4
5.4
Les Dents longues
1953
Director
5.4
5.4
Three Days to Live
1958
as Simon Belin
5.3
5.3
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
1991
as Roland Grumaud
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5.2
No Pockets in a Shroud
1974
as Laurence
5.2
5.2
The Hour of Truth
1965
as Davod
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5.2
Rue de l'estrapade
1953
as Robert
5.1
5.1
Carthage in Flames
1960
as Phegor
5.1
5.1
Season of Peace in Paris
1981
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5.0
Les Cadets de l'océan
1945
as Philippe Demantes
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5.0
Three Girls in Paris
1963
as Raymond
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5.0
Promotion canapé
1990
as Le responsable des inspecteurs de la Justice
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5.0
Warrior Spirit
1994
as John Ball
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5.0
De force avec d'autres
1993
as L'autre lui-même
5.0
5.0
Coup de jeune
1993
as Gaudeamus at 70
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5.0
The Season for Love
1961
as Jacques Saint-Ford
5.0
5.0
Follow Me Young Man
1958
as Michel Corbier
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5.0
Adorable Creatures
1952
as André Noblet
4.9
4.9
Ghost with Driver
1996
as Le passeur (Le guide céleste)
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4.7
Lovers' Net
1955
as Pierre Roubier
4.5
4.5
How to Make a French Dish
1964
as Raymond
4.5
4.5
Swedish Fly Girls
1971
as André
4.5
4.5
Guy de Maupassant
1982
as Gustave
4.4
4.4
Dirty Hands
1951
as Hugo
4.3
4.3
The Sultans
1966
as Léo
4.0
4.0
Black Sun
1966
as Guy Rodier
4.0
4.0
The Murdered Model
1948
as Léopold
4.0
4.0
Lucrèce
1943
as College student
4.0
4.0
Torticola versus Frankensberg
1952
as The Man who sleeps in a Coffin
4.0
4.0
The Most Beautiful Month
1968
as Le capitaine
3.8
3.8
Obsession
1997
as Xavier Favre
3.7
3.7
Dandin
1988
as Monsieur de Sotenville
3.5
3.5
Iran: Days of Crisis
1991
as Shah
3.5
3.5
Port of Desire
1958
as Pierre
3.5
3.5
À belles dents
1966
as Bernard
3.4
3.4
Via Montenapoleone
1987
as padre di Elena
2.9
2.9
Les Bidochon
1996
as Le père Bidochon
2.8
2.8
Killing Cars
1986
as Kellermann
2.3
2.3
Sadistic Hallucinations
1969
as Charles
2.0
2.0
Règlements de compte
1963
as Nicky
2.0
2.0
Blitz
1985
as Kellerman
2.0
2.0
Mauvaise fille
1991
as Fernand
2.0
2.0
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
1979
as Don Gomez
1.0
1.0
Julie la rousse
1959
as Édouard Lavigne / Jean Lavigne
La Nuit de Sybille
1947
as Stany
Schwüle Tage
1978
as Vater
The Hell of Lost Pilots
1949
as Lieutenant Villeneuve
Les murs
1964
as François Bonjean
Public Opinion
1954
as Paolo Jaier
Maid in Paris
1956
as Antoine du Merlet
Good Evening Paris
1956
as Georges Bernier / Self
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
1960
as Lieutenant Miguel Villard
Réveille-toi, chérie
1961
as Masure
An Affair of States
1966
as Ballard
Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
2009
as Self (archive footage)
La Discorde
1978
as Bernard
Poorly Extinguished Fires
1994
as The gentleman from the beach
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "La Ronde"
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir"
2008
as Self (archive footage)
La légende cruelle
1951
as Narrator (voice)
The Truce
1968
as Arno
Un enfant dans la ville
1971
as Gustave, the bartender
Chicago Digest
1951
as Coffino
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
1954
as Narrator (voice)
Love in a Hot Climate
1954
as Ricardo Garcia
La jalousie
1976
as Albert Blondel
The summer of all sorrows
1989
as papy
Une femme d'action
1997
as Charles
Pétition
1987
as Stanek
Public Security
1987
as Martino Morando
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
1990
as Self
I'll Get Back to Kandara
1956
as Bernard Cormière
Un delitto
1984
as Judge Freshville
Ariane
1974
as The comedian
Miquette
1940
Pushing the Limits
1994
as Le père de Fiona
Soyez les bienvenus
1942
The Woman in Red
1947
as Saladin
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