Daniel Gélin

Acting · Born 1921-05-19 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France

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 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…

Filmography

• The Man Who Knew Too Much as Louis Bernard
• Trop c'est trop as Flic
• Season of Peace in Paris
• Life Is a Long Quiet River as Docteur Mavial
• The Sleeping Car Murders as Le vétérinaire titulaire, chargé de cours (uncredited)
• Is Paris Burning? as Yves Bayet
• Port of Desire as Pierre
• Mister Frost as Simon Scolari
• We Will All Meet in Paradise as Bastien, stage director
• That Night of Varennes as De Wendel