Daniel Gélin
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1921-05-19 (81 years old)
Deathday
2002-11-29
Place of Birth
Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Also known As
Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin
Daniel 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 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 embark...
Acting
1956
as Louis Bernard
1975
as Flic
1988
as Docteur Mavial
1965
as Le vétérinaire titulaire, chargé de cours (uncredited)
1966
as Yves Bayet
1958
as Pierre
1990
as Simon Scolari
1977
as Bastien, stage director
1982
as De Wendel
1971
as Charles Chevalier
1960
as The Intern (uncredited)
1994
as Mr. Mireille, the 2nd projectionist
1955
as Napoléon Bonaparte
1952
as Jean
1988
as Pierre Duvivier, Albert's father
1974
as Laurence
1951
as Jean Bompart
1956
as Daniel Roy
1953
as Louis Commandeur
1978
as Malagrida
1950
as Alfred, le jeune homme
1991
as Roland Grumaud
1951
as Daniel Prévost
1966
as Doctor Jacques Lafaye
1942
as (uncredited)
1941
as Chauveau-Laplace (uncredited)
1940
as Extra (uncredited)
1954
as Léonard Maurizius
1944
as (uncredited)
1954
as Mino
1947
as Stany
1947
as Saladin
1996
as le veuf
1949
as Lieutenant Villeneuve
1985
as Enrico
1952
as Self
1962
as le comédien qui répète "Cyrano"
1946
as Le surveillant du collège
1958
as Simon Belin
1949
as Lucien Bonnard
1997
as Xavier Favre
1994
as John Ball
1955
as Pierre Roubier
1966
as Guy Rodier
1965
as (archive footage)
1947
as Charles
1986
as Kellermann
1945
1966
as Léo
1988
as Monsieur de Sotenville
1993
as Gaudeamus at 70
1993
as Jean Moulinier
1989
as papy
1960
as Phegor
1961
as Eric Kraemmer
1951
as Edouard Mortier
1979
as Don Gomez
1951
as Hugo
1953
as Robert
1946
as Pierre Ribault
1996
as Le père Bidochon
1981
as Broutechoux
1996
as Le passeur (Le guide céleste)
1967
as Bora Petrović
1973
as Brera
1971
as André
1957
as Robert Montillon
1952
as André Noblet
1954
as Ricardo Garcia
1959
as Guillaume Féraud
1966
as Bernard
1997
as Charles
1966
as Ballard
1957
as Alain Cartier
1978
as Vater
1982
as Gustave
1963
as Raymond
1972
as Jean
1985
1954
1969
as Le père d'Evelyne
1943
as College student
1965
as Gunther Smith
1976
as Albert Blondel
1987
as Stanek
1953
as L'ancien prisonnier
1954
as Jean Collinet
1952
as The Man who sleeps in a Coffin
1991
as Shah
1991
as Fernand
1974
as The comedian
1969
as Charles
1946
as Michel
1965
as Davod
1945
as Philippe Demantes
1958
as Michel Corbier
1950
as Joseph Le Berre
1987
as Martino Morando
1987
as padre di Elena
1968
as Arno
1993
as L'autre lui-même
1954
as Il soldato Frédéric d'Héricourt
1957
as Paul Horcier
1956
as Bernard Cormière
1959
as Édouard Lavigne / Jean Lavigne
1961
as Jacques Saint-Ford
1994
as Le père de Fiona
1964
as Raymond
1995
as Bruno
1940
1961
as Masure
1954
as Frank Friedmayer
2008
as Self (archive footage)
2008
as Self (archive footage)
1961
as Un drogué
2002
as Abdel-Robert
1990
1948
as Léopold
1987
as Self (archive footage)
1956
as Georges Bernier / Self
1953
as Michel Landa
1960
as Lieutenant Miguel Villard
1969
as Bernard Alione
1951
as Narrator (voice)
1970
as Dr. Robert Marbois
1968
as Le capitaine
2009
as Self (archive footage)
1973
1964
as Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)
1956
as Antoine du Merlet
1963
as Daniel
1971
as Gustave, the bartender
1990
as Le responsable des inspecteurs de la Justice
1994
as The gentleman from the beach
1978
as Bernard
1954
as Narrator (voice)
1951
as Coffino
1964
as François Bonjean
1984
Production
1953
as Director
1953
as Adaptation
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