Daniel Gélin
1921-05-19 ( 103 years old ) in Angers, 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.

Movies

Max par Marcel: Lola Montès 2009-10-27
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir" 2008-09-16
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "La Ronde" 2008-01-01
À l'abri des regards indiscrets 2002-01-01
Une femme d'action 1997-12-01
Obsession 1997-08-28
Men, Women: A User's Manual 1996-08-28
Les Bidochon 1996-07-07
Ghost with Driver 1996-03-20
Runaways 1995-08-23
Pushing the Limits 1994-03-16
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy 1994-03-09
Poorly Extinguished Fires 1994-01-12
Warrior Spirit 1994-01-07
Roulez jeunesse ! 1993-04-28
De force avec d'autres 1993-04-24
Coup de jeune 1993-04-07
Iran: Days of Crisis 1991-09-30
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck 1991-04-24
Mauvaise fille 1991-01-23
Promotion canapé 1990-10-10
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren 1990-09-03
Mister Frost 1990-04-10
The summer of all sorrows 1989-03-08
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child 1988-11-30
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life 1988-11-22
Life Is a Long Quiet River 1988-02-03
Dandin 1988-01-20
Public Security 1987-06-17
Via Montenapoleone 1987-03-13
Pétition 1987-01-01
Killing Cars 1986-02-13
Blitz 1985-03-13
The Children 1985-02-01
Un delitto 1984-01-01
The Night of Varennes 1982-05-15
Guy de Maupassant 1982-04-14
Season of Peace in Paris 1981-07-01
Signé Furax 1981-04-01
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise ! 1979-12-19
Schwüle Tage 1978-12-17
The Suspended Vocation 1978-07-27
La Discorde 1978-03-22
We Will All Meet in Paradise 1977-11-09
La jalousie 1976-04-21
Trop c'est trop 1975-06-05
Dialogues of the Exiles 1975-04-23
Ariane 1974-12-01
No Pockets in a Shroud 1974-10-25
The Police Serve the Citizens? 1973-09-06
Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue 1973-06-02
Far from Dallas 1972-06-28
Un enfant dans la ville 1971-12-12
Swedish Fly Girls 1971-08-20
Murmur of the Heart 1971-04-27
The Servant 1970-01-21
Destroy, She Said 1969-09-25
Sadistic Hallucinations 1969-07-30
Slogan 1969-07-27
The Most Beautiful Month 1968-06-26
The Truce 1968-01-01
Witness Out of Hell 1967-06-28
Black Sun 1966-12-10
Is Paris Burning? 1966-10-26
À belles dents 1966-07-05
Line of Demarcation 1966-05-25
The Sultans 1966-05-06
An Affair of States 1966-02-25
The Sleeping Car Murder 1965-11-17
Uncertain Verification 1965-04-30
The Hour of Truth 1965-04-28
The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall 1965-03-17
Les murs 1964-06-04
Cherchez l'idole 1964-02-26
How to Make a French Dish 1964-01-29
Three Girls in Paris 1963-10-12
Portuguese Vacation 1963-10-09
Règlements de compte 1963-03-05
Hitch-Hike 1962-03-16
Réveille-toi, chérie 1961-07-12
In the Mouth of the Wolf 1961-06-20
The Season for Love 1961-06-12
Shadows of Adultery 1961-04-13
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel 1960-08-26
Testament of Orpheus 1960-02-18
Carthage in Flames 1960-01-29
Julie la rousse 1959-08-12
This Desired Body 1959-04-17
Follow Me Young Man 1958-12-03
Port of Desire 1958-08-13
Three Days to Live 1958-03-12
Too Many Lovers 1957-12-11
There's Always a Price Tag 1957-09-18
Mort en fraude 1957-04-09
I'll Get Back to Kandara 1956-12-20
Good Evening Paris 1956-12-14
Plucking the Daisy 1956-07-25
The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956-05-16
Maid in Paris 1956-01-20
Napoleon 1955-03-25
Lovers' Net 1955-01-18
The Cheerful Squadron 1954-12-05
Woman of Rome 1954-10-27
On Trial 1954-06-04
Love in a Hot Climate 1954-05-14
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances 1954-04-15
Public Opinion 1954-02-26
Stain on the Snow 1954-02-19
Royal Affairs in Versailles 1954-02-10
The Slave 1953-09-02
Rue de l'Estrapade 1953-04-14
Voice of Silence 1953-04-01
Les Dents longues 1953-03-15
The Moment of Truth 1952-10-22
Torticola versus Frankensberg 1952-04-19
Le Plaisir 1952-02-29
Venom and Eternity 1952-01-25
Adorable Creatures 1952-01-02
Young Love 1951-11-14
Dirty Hands 1951-08-09
Chicago Digest 1951-07-24
Edward and Caroline 1951-04-06
La légende cruelle 1951-02-28
God Needs Men 1950-10-03
La Ronde 1950-09-27
Rendezvous in July 1949-12-06
The Hell of Lost Pilots 1949-08-18
The Murdered Model 1948-03-10
The Woman in Red 1947-05-21
Mirror 1947-05-02
La Nuit de Sybille 1947-03-05
Martin Roumagnac 1946-12-18
A Friend Will Come Tonight 1946-04-09
The Temptation of Barbizon 1946-03-13
Les Cadets de l'océan 1945-11-14
L'Enquête du 58 1945-11-04
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform 1944-05-26
Lucrèce 1943-12-15
Soyez les bienvenus 1942-07-08
Strangers in the House 1942-05-16
Her First Affair 1941-08-14
Radio Surprises 1940-05-08
Miquette 1940-05-01

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