

Acting
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...
Highest rated appearances
as Mr. Mireille, the 2nd projectionist

Une femme d'action
as Charles

Obsession
as Xavier Favre

Men, Women: A User's Manual
as le veuf

Les Bidochon
as Le père Bidochon

Ghost with Driver
as Le passeur (Le guide céleste)

Runaways
as Bruno

Pushing the Limits
as Le père de Fiona

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
as Mr. Mireille, the 2nd projectionist

Poorly Extinguished Fires
as The gentleman from the beach
Warrior Spirit
as John Ball

Roulez jeunesse !
as Jean Moulinier
De force avec d'autres
as L'autre lui-même

Coup de jeune
as Gaudeamus at 70

Un type bien
as Docteur Avril

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
as Roland Grumaud

Mauvaise fille
as Fernand

Promotion canapé
as Le responsable des inspecteurs de la Justice

Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
as Self

Mr. Frost
as Simon Scolari

The summer of all sorrows
as papy

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
as Pierre Duvivier, Albert's father

Life Is a Long Quiet River
as Docteur Mavial

Dandin
as Monsieur de Sotenville

Public Security
as Martino Morando

Via Montenapoleone
as padre di Elena

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
Pétition
as Stanek

Killing Cars
as Kellermann

The Children
as Enrico
Blitz
as Kellerman
Un delitto
as Judge Freshville

That Night of Varennes
as De Wendel

Guy de Maupassant
as Gustave

Season of Peace in Paris

Signé Furax
as Broutechoux

Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
as Don Gomez
Schwüle Tage
as Vater

The Suspended Vocation
as Malagrida

La Discorde
as Bernard

We Will All Meet in Paradise
as Bastien, stage director

Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
as Self

La Jalousie
as Albert Blondel

Trop c'est trop
as Flic

Dialogues of the Exiles

Ariane
as The comedian

No Pockets in a Shroud
as Laurence

The Police Serve the Citizens?
as Brera

Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue
as Dupin

Far from Dallas
as Jean
Un enfant dans la ville
as Gustave, the bartender

Swedish Fly Girls
as André

Murmur of the Heart
as Charles Chevalier

The Servant
as Dr. Robert Marbois

Destroy, She Said
as Bernard Alione

Sadistic Hallucinations
as Charles

Slogan
as Evelyne's father

The Most Beautiful Month
as Le capitaine

The Truce
as Arno

Witness Out of Hell
as Bora Petrović

Black Sun
as Guy Rodier

Is Paris Burning?
as Yves Bayet

À belles dents
as Bernard

Line of Demarcation
as Doctor Jacques Lafaye

The Sultans
as Léo

An Affair of States
as Ballard

The Sleeping Car Murders
as Le vétérinaire titulaire, chargé de cours (uncredited)

Uncertain Verification
as (archive footage)

The Hour of Truth
as Davod

The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
as Gunther Smith

Les murs
as François Bonjean

Cherchez l'idole
as Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)

How to Make a French Dish
as Raymond

Three Girls in Paris
as Raymond

Portuguese Vacation
as Daniel

Règlements de compte
as Nicky

Hitch-Hike
as le comédien qui répète "Cyrano"

Réveille-toi, chérie
as Masure

In the Mouth of the Wolf
as Un drogué

The Season for Love
as Jacques Saint-Ford

Shadows of Adultery
as Eric Kraemmer

Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
as Lieutenant Miguel Villard

Testament of Orpheus
as L'interne (non crédité)

Carthage in Flames
as Phegor

Julie la rousse
as Édouard Lavigne / Jean Lavigne

This Desired Body
as Guillaume Féraud

Follow Me Young Man
as Michel Corbier

Port of Desire
as Pierre

Three Days to Live
as Simon Belin

Too Many Lovers
as Alain Cartier

There's Always a Price Tag
as Robert Montillon

Mort en fraude
as Paul Horcier

I'll Get Back to Kandara
as Bernard Cormière

Good Evening Paris
as Georges Bernier / Self

Plucking the Daisy
as Daniel Roy

The Man Who Knew Too Much
as Louis Bernard

Maid in Paris
as Antoine du Merlet

Napoleon
as Napoléon Bonaparte

Lovers' Net
as Pierre Roubier

The Cheerful Squadron
as Frédéric d'Héricourt

Woman of Rome
as Mino

On Trial
as Léonard Maurizius

Love in a Hot Climate
as Ricardo Garcia

Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
as Narrator (voice)

Public Opinion
as Paolo Jaier

Royal Affairs in Versailles
as Jean Collinet

The Slave
as Michel Landa

Rue de l'estrapade
as Robert

Voice of Silence
as Francesco Ferro

Stain on the Snow
as Frank Friedmayer

Les Dents longues
as Louis Commandeur

The Moment of Truth
as Daniel Prévost
Torticola versus Frankensberg
as The Man who sleeps in a Coffin

Le Plaisir
as Jean

Venom and Eternity
as Self

Adorable Creatures
as André Noblet

Young Love
as Jean Bompart

Dirty Hands
as Hugo

Chicago Digest
as Coffino

Edward and Caroline
as Edouard Mortier

La légende cruelle
as Narrator (voice)

God Needs Men
as Joseph Le Berre

La Ronde
as Alfred, le jeune homme

Rendezvous in July
as Lucien Bonnard

The Hell of Lost Pilots
as Lieutenant Villeneuve

The Murdered Model
as Léopold

The Woman in Red
as Saladin

Mirror
as Charles

La Nuit de Sybille
as Stany

Martin Roumagnac
as Le surveillant du collège

A Friend Will Come Tonight
as Pierre Ribault

The Temptation of Barbizon
as Michel

Les Cadets de l'océan
as Philippe Demantes

L'Enquête du 58

The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
as (uncredited)
Lucrèce
as College student

Soyez les bienvenus

Strangers in the House
as (uncredited)

Her First Affair
as Chauveau-Laplace (uncredited)

Radio Surprises
as Extra (uncredited)

Miquette