Personal Info
Known Credits
143
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1921-05-19 (104 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Also Known For
Daniel Yves Alfred GélinDaniel Gelin
Daniel Gélin
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 ...
Known For
Acting
2009 --
Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
| Self (archive footage)
2008 --
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir"
| Self (archive footage)
2008 --
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "La Ronde"
| Self (archive footage)
2002 --
À l'abri des regards indiscrets
| Abdel-Robert
1997 --
Une femme d'action
| Charles
1997 --
Obsession
| Xavier Favre
1996 --
Men, Women: A User's Manual
| le veuf
1996 --
Les Bidochon
| Le père Bidochon
1996 --
Ghost with Driver
| Le passeur (Le guide céleste)
1995 --
Runaways
| Bruno
1994 --
Pushing the Limits
| Le père de Fiona
1994 --
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
| Mr. Mireille, the 2nd projectionist
1994 --
Poorly Extinguished Fires
| The gentleman from the beach
1994 --
Warrior Spirit
| John Ball
1993 --
Roulez jeunesse !
| Jean Moulinier
1993 --
De force avec d'autres
| L'autre lui-même
1993 --
Coup de jeune
| Gaudeamus at 70
1991 --
Iran: Days of Crisis
| Shah
1991 --
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
| Roland Grumaud
1991 --
Mauvaise fille
| Fernand
1990 --
Promotion canapé
| Le responsable des inspecteurs de la Justice
1990 --
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
| Self
1990 --
Mister Frost
| Simon Scolari
1989 --
The summer of all sorrows
| papy
1988 --
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
| Pierre Duvivier, Albert's father
1988 --
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
| Self (archive footage)
1988 --
Life Is a Long Quiet River
| Docteur Mavial
1988 --
Dandin
| Monsieur de Sotenville
1987 --
Public Security
| Martino Morando
1987 --
Via Montenapoleone
| padre di Elena
1987 --
Pétition
| Stanek
1986 --
Killing Cars
| Kellermann
1985 --
Blitz
|
1985 --
The Children
| Enrico
1984 --
Un delitto
|
1982 --
The Night of Varennes
| De Wendel
1982 --
Guy de Maupassant
| Gustave
1981 --
Season of Peace in Paris
|
1981 --
Signé Furax
| Broutechoux
1979 --
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
| Don Gomez
1978 --
Schwüle Tage
| Vater
1978 --
The Suspended Vocation
| Malagrida
1978 --
La Discorde
| Bernard
1977 --
We Will All Meet in Paradise
| Bastien, stage director
1976 --
La jalousie
| Albert Blondel
1975 --
Trop c'est trop
| Flic
1975 --
Dialogues of the Exiles
|
1974 --
Ariane
| The comedian
1974 --
No Pockets in a Shroud
| Laurence
1973 --
The Police Serve the Citizens?
| Brera
1973 --
Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue
| Dupin
1972 --
Far from Dallas
| Jean
1971 --
Un enfant dans la ville
| Gustave, the bartender
1971 --
Swedish Fly Girls
| André
1971 --
Murmur of the Heart
| Charles Chevalier
1970 --
The Servant
| Dr. Robert Marbois
1969 --
Destroy, She Said
| Bernard Alione
1969 --
Sadistic Hallucinations
| Charles
1969 --
Slogan
| Le père d'Evelyne
1968 --
The Most Beautiful Month
| Le capitaine
1968 --
The Truce
| Arno
1967 --
Witness Out of Hell
| Bora Petrović
1966 --
Black Sun
| Guy Rodier
1966 --
Is Paris Burning?
| Yves Bayet
1966 --
À belles dents
| Bernard
1966 --
Line of Demarcation
| Doctor Jacques Lafaye
1966 --
The Sultans
| Léo
1966 --
An Affair of States
| Ballard
1965 --
The Sleeping Car Murder
| Le vétérinaire titulaire, chargé de cours (uncredited)
1965 --
Uncertain Verification
| (archive footage)
1965 --
The Hour of Truth
| Davod
1965 --
The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
| Gunther Smith
1964 --
Les murs
| François Bonjean
1964 --
Cherchez l'idole
| Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)
1964 --
How to Make a French Dish
| Raymond
1963 --
Three Girls in Paris
| Raymond
1963 --
Portuguese Vacation
| Daniel
1963 --
Règlements de compte
|
1962 --
Hitch-Hike
| le comédien qui répète "Cyrano"
1961 --
Réveille-toi, chérie
| Masure
1961 --
In the Mouth of the Wolf
| Un drogué
1961 --
The Season for Love
| Jacques Saint-Ford
1961 --
Shadows of Adultery
| Eric Kraemmer
1960 --
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
| Lieutenant Miguel Villard
1960 --
Testament of Orpheus
| The Intern (uncredited)
1960 --
Carthage in Flames
| Phegor
1959 --
Julie la rousse
| Édouard Lavigne / Jean Lavigne
1959 --
This Desired Body
| Guillaume Féraud
1958 --
Follow Me Young Man
| Michel Corbier
1958 --
Port of Desire
| Pierre
1958 --
Three Days to Live
| Simon Belin
1957 --
Too Many Lovers
| Alain Cartier
1957 --
There's Always a Price Tag
| Robert Montillon
1957 --
Mort en fraude
| Paul Horcier
1956 --
I'll Get Back to Kandara
| Bernard Cormière
1956 --
Good Evening Paris
| Georges Bernier / Self
1956 --
Plucking the Daisy
| Daniel Roy
1956 --
The Man Who Knew Too Much
| Louis Bernard
1956 --
Maid in Paris
| Antoine du Merlet
1955 --
Napoleon
| Napoléon Bonaparte
1955 --
Lovers' Net
| Pierre Roubier
1954 --
The Cheerful Squadron
| Il soldato Frédéric d'Héricourt
1954 --
Woman of Rome
| Mino
1954 --
On Trial
| Léonard Maurizius
1954 --
Love in a Hot Climate
| Ricardo Garcia
1954 --
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
| Narrator (voice)
1954 --
Public Opinion
|
1954 --
Stain on the Snow
| Frank Friedmayer
1954 --
Royal Affairs in Versailles
| Jean Collinet
1953 --
The Slave
| Michel Landa
1953 --
Rue de l'Estrapade
| Robert
1953 --
Voice of Silence
| L'ancien prisonnier
1953 --
Les Dents longues
| Louis Commandeur
1952 --
The Moment of Truth
| Daniel Prevost
1952 --
Torticola versus Frankensberg
| The Man who sleeps in a Coffin
1952 --
Le Plaisir
| Jean
1952 --
Venom and Eternity
| Self
1952 --
Adorable Creatures
| André Noblet
1951 --
Young Love
| Jean Bompart
1951 --
Dirty Hands
| Hugo
1951 --
Chicago Digest
| Coffino
1951 --
Edward and Caroline
| Edouard Mortier
1951 --
La légende cruelle
| Narrator (voice)
1950 --
God Needs Men
| Joseph Le Berre
1950 --
La Ronde
| Alfred, le jeune homme
1949 --
Rendezvous in July
| Lucien Bonnard
1949 --
The Hell of Lost Pilots
| Lieutenant Villeneuve
1948 --
The Murdered Model
| Léopold
1947 --
The Woman in Red
| Saladin
1947 --
Mirror
| Charles
1947 --
La Nuit de Sybille
| Stany
1946 --
Martin Roumagnac
| Le surveillant du collège
1946 --
A Friend Will Come Tonight
| Pierre Ribault
1946 --
The Temptation of Barbizon
| Michel
1945 --
Les Cadets de l'océan
| Philippe Demantes
1945 --
L'Enquête du 58
|
1944 --
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
| (uncredited)
1943 --
Lucrèce
| College student
1942 --
Soyez les bienvenus
|
1942 --
Strangers in the House
| (uncredited)
1941 --
Her First Affair
| Chauveau-Laplace (uncredited)
1940 --
Radio Surprises
| Extra (uncredited)
1940 --
Miquette
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